Heavy weight boxing champion Floyd Patterson arrives to train for fight against Pete Rademacher in Seattle, Washington, United States. Floyd being greeted by people. Floyd hits a punching bag and practices for the match. Patterson in a boxing ring. A young boy waiting for the fight to start. An American boxer T. Peter ("Pete") Rademacher and Floyd in the boxing ring. The spectators seated in a stand. The fight starts. The boy drinks and watches the match. A close up of Patterson. Floyd Patterson gives an autograph.
Group of young Soviet women dress in protective clothing and masks. Two persons form seat with their hands and arms to carry an injured person. Men train to carry injured person with and without a litter. Soviet civilians manually clearing debris to enable rescue of persons, and learning to provide first aid to injured persons. Civilians practicing various bandaging techniques. Civilians, including younger boys, don protective clothing and practice disposal of incendiary bombs. A woman in uniform gives command for civilians to don protective masks. Men, women, and children, donning protective masks and clothing. Hazmat teams decontaminating an area. Volunteers returning their tools after a practice session. Russian women stocking first aid medicine and equipment. A man lowering blackout blinds and drapes at a window. Soviet policeman directing traffic and pedestrians. Young man in a lookout tower.
Three Uniformed women in the U.S.Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) arrive at the entrance of a Coast Guard Station, during World War 2. The station includes a light house. Next, a Coast Guardsman explains the light to them as they stand on a platform at its top. Scene shifts to about a dozen SPARS women boarding a Coast Guard training ship. Some of them ascend rope ladders in the ship's rigging. Three of them drive away in a blue Coast Guard jeep, up a dirt road to a waterfront. There, while standing in a boat (unseen but moving up and down) a Coast officer converses with one of them while referring to a chart. The next scene shows the three women on top deck of a Coast Guard Fireboat, where a Coast Guardsman demonstrates one of their firefighting water guns. The water pressure is increased, creating a powerful stream of water. Scene shifts to about 25 SPARS women assembled on a lawn in front of a frame building. A woman officer motions them into formation and reads orders. Next, from viewpoint, above, the formation of SPARS women is seen marching along with Coast Guardsmen in a parade.
A winter warfare training in Germany during World War II. Aerial view of a trench with water flowing in it. A German soldier looking through binoculars. An infantryman stooping and moving through the trench. A few soldiers moving through the trench. The soldiers preparing anti aircraft scanners. A soldier beside them with binoculars. The soldiers beside a small hillside fire anti aircraft guns.
Policewomen in Tokyo, Japan. Former Police Commissioner of New York City Lewis J. Valentine is greeted by the Police Chief at Shiba headquarters. Officers standing on the steps to the building. Policewomen marching in formation at a training center. Policewomen at the center. The Police Commissioner and two other officers review the policewomen. The Police Commissioner speaks to the policewomen.
A demonstration by members of the Bonus Army in Cleveland, Ohio during the Great Depression. The members of the Bonus Army gathered near railway tracks. Men take over a train and sit on the tracks. They demand transportation to Washington DC. The police moves the demonstrators
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