A training film about training of Seabees in the United States. The Seabees are trained by their instructor. They tighten a rope. The splice is called combination lock splice. A man wraps a tape around strands of a rope. Each strand goes over one and under the next strand. Cutting and tying of the strands. Men make cargo nets. The nets are loaded with supplies and are lowered in a landing craft and a ship. An instructor points out the parts of a winch for a student. 'Safety First' written on a side of the ship. Handling of load with help of the winch.
Liberated Frenchmen in Germany during World War II. A railroad train pulls up at a station. Liberated Frenchmen get off the train. They walk past the train. A group of Frenchmen at the station. A Frenchman poses.
Opening scene shows young men using hand tools in a classroom. An instructor grasps a file to demonstrate something to a boy student. Next, a youth is seen using a shaper to machine a piece of steel. Another young man tightens a coupling. Two men put their shoulders to a large locomotive wheel and roll it forward from underneath a steam locomotive. Two young men step out of a locomotive boiler, where they have been performing maintenance. They step down on a small ladder, closing the boiler door behind them. Closeup of a steam locomotive moving amidst smoke and steam. An engineer at the controls of the locomotive, explaining their operation to a young man in the cab, behind him. View from inside the moving locomotive of tracks ahead with other rolling stock and a building visible. A uniformed woman reaches up to the cab and receives some papers from the engineer. Next a uniformed woman is seen at the control panel for railroad signals. She moves some levers and rotates a hand crank. Simultaneously, a large railroad signal moves upward to an open position. Change of scene shows passengers boarding a passenger train from an outdoor platform. A uniformed railroad man takes a baby from a woman boarding and then walks along the platform to hand the child back to the mother, through the window of her train compartment. Final scene shows a smiling uniformed woman raising a signal paddle to release the train for movement.
United States soldiers march from a train station platform in Arak, Iran to a mess area behind the station during World War II. Military jeeps are parked near the train station, including one marked as "26th Field Hospital." Other United States soldiers wait and talk to each other on busy train platform.
United States soldier holds a title card. Steam locomotive train passes by mountainous area in Iran during World War II. Train heads toward snowy mountains. Some cars in train are tanker cars.
Parisians react to the assassination of French Socialist leader and outspoken war critic Jean Jaurès by Raoul Villain in France at the onset of World War 1. Throngs of people grab newspapers from vendors in Paris. The Le Petit Parisien front page announcing the declaration of war by Germany against France and the French decree to mobilize troops, with the headline, "La France décrète la mobilisation...." Crowds in Paris reacting to news. Reservists in civilian clothing, one with a child on his back, and uniformed soldiers, holding Lebel Model 1886 rifles with small French flags sticking out of their muzzles, marching in Paris. Aerial view of crowds of military-age men march to the Bureau Militaire to report for mobilization. French Bureau Militaire signs directing inductees. French reservists depart Paris by train, possibly from Gare du Nord train station. Enlisted Frenchmen waving good-bye from a moving train.
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