U.S. sailors march at U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes (Naval Station Great Lakes) during World War I. A car driven across a long bridge. A freighter underway at sea. Brief slate between scenes reads, "Americans! The Navy needs Eyes to assist Lookouts on our Vessels. Will you help by loaning Binoculars, Spyglasses, and Telescopes? They will be returned to you after the war. Mark them with your name for identification and then send them to Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Naval Observatory, Washington D.C. Thanks! Uncle Sam." United States Navy sailors march. Officers review them. A building in the background and a cannon in the foreground.
The U.S. Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois. Two sailors stand holding different clothes. One of the sailor holds up a pair of shorts, under shirts, one long and one short sleeved. He also holds long under pants, pajama pants, a parka, a sweater, puttees, a dark cap, a white cap and a stocking cap.
Recruits in civvies being trained at the Great Lakes Naval Station facility in the United States during World War I. Recruits in civilian clothing stand at attention. They run and salute. Houses in the background. Recruits in civvies drill beside uniformed men. They march into barracks. Trees in the background. Uniformed sailors drill. A group of civvies watch them.
Food for U.S. Navy sailors in training during World War I in the United States. Sailors outside mess facility at Naval Station Great Lakes seated on stools in a doorway. They eat food. A sailor in an apron poses. He holds a plate of food.
U.S. Navy cooks at work in the Great Lakes Naval Training Center (Naval Station Great Lakes) during World War I. Interior of a kitchen. The cooks put meat and then some eggs in a grinder. A man turns the handle of the slicer. A cook mixes and shapes a meat loaf. He places it in a pan. The cook takes meat loaf out of an oven. He slices it. He takes a pan of baked potatoes from the oven and places them on a platter. He dishes soup from a vat into a kettle. Creamed peas in a vat. Steaks are cooked on a stove top. A man draws coffee from a huge urn into pots.
U.S. Navy sailors in barracks at the Naval Station Great Lakes during World War 1 training. Men stand in ranks in the barracks. Hammocks rolled and tied to rafters. Men let down the hammocks, unroll and untie them. They sleep in the hammocks. The men wake up. Some of the men swing down from the hammocks, roll and tie them up. The men walk in a line to shower area. The sailors take showers.
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