Members of the Detroit Tigers gather for baseball spring training, March 1950. Close up of Tigers manager Red Rolfe. Players warm up throwing arms. Shots of three pitchers: #22 Virgil Trucks, #12 Art Houtteman, and #11 Dizzy Trout. Players field baseballs. Close ups of outfielders Charlie Keller and Dick Kryhoski. Outfielder Vic Wertz takes practice swing. Pitcher Ted Gray throws. First baseman Aaron Robinson takes a swing. (Note: There is no indication where this footage was filmed but Tigers trained that year in Lakeland Florida.)
Activities of the First Motion Picture Unit of the United States Army Air Forces in Culver City, California. A training of combat camera crew. Soldiers march with rifles. They stand in formation. Training of crew members during field maneuvers. Cameramen take photographs and record battle scenes on a battlefield. A bomb explodes near the cameramen. (World War II period).
A training of the Army Service Forces (ASF) in the United States during World War II. War Department technical manuals. Training of the soldiers. The soldiers in fox holes. They fire rifles in a battlefield. Officials gather around miniatures of railroad yards and warehouses. An officer lectures on supply routes. Entrance to the school of military government as officers file in and out of the building. The officers study in a library and hold brief discussions on the military government. Officials seated at a desk discussing. A wall map in the background.
Security arrangements in Hanford, Washington, United States to protect the Hanford reservation and plutonium production site. Electric poles, trees and buildings in the background. 'Vehicles stop Inspection Station' written on a wall of a guard post. Armed guards stand near the guard post. A car arrives. Men inspect the car. An airplane in flight. A car drives past on a road. The airplane lands in front of the car. The guards arrive near the car and inspect it. The guards receive weapons training and fire at target boards with pistols and with semi-automatic rifles. They climb into tanks or armored vehicles in a training drill.
African American women train as hairdressers and beauticians in a beauty course offered by the YWCA in Harlem, New York. The woman writes about the beauty course offered by the YWCA and how the “Beauty culture is a well paying field because good grooming is important”. African American women learn to cut hair during a practical training inside a simulation salon. An African American woman paints the nails of another woman during a manicure. A woman waxes and neatens the eyebrows of a black woman.
Chinese troops at Chinese Training Detachment Headquarters in China during World War II. Soldiers stand in a line. They run towards the headquarter building. A group of Chinese soldiers with books in hands stand next to a board that reads 'Headquarters Chinese training detachment',. They pose for a photograph.
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