Continental Army cavalry riding horses and soldiers marching in an American Revolutionary War reenactment. Continental Army soldiers carrying the wounded on their backs under heavy rain. United States Army soldiers marching in New York City during World War II. Views of enormous numbers of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. Large columns of U.S. Army soldiers seen approaching camera position and from above. A soldier with an Army Service Forces (ASF) patch marching. Close up of the Army Service Forces (ASF) patch. Commanding General of the ASF Lieutenant General Brehon B. Somervell smiling. A notice detailing the War Department Reorganization effective March 9, 1942. Army Ground Forces commander Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair. Army Air Forces Commander General Henry H. Arnold. General Somervell and Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. Soldiers advance towards a battlefront. Wounded are evacuated from the area. The soldiers stand in formation. Officials seated at a desk. General Somervell addresses them and speaks on the value of war material. A dead German soldier in tank. Dead bodies of Japanese soldiers scattered on the beach in the Pacific. Tires and scraps for use by the army. A newspaper advertisement reads “Your scrap will save some brave boy’s life!”. Ceiling prices listed in grocery store during wartime. Japanese planes bombing Malaya and Singapore. Burned houses after Japanese bombardment in Asia. A burning house in China. An oil tanker explodes and burns after being bombed at sea. Tanks advance towards the front. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and wife Soong Mei-Ling (Madame Chiang). An airplane in flight, bombarding a target area. Prisoners of war standing. Dead bodies lying on the ground. Destroyed area after an enemy attack. The soldiers and the tanks advance towards the battlefront. Barrage balloons in flight overhead. Allied flags on display such as the Soviet Union and England.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines. Western railroad lines under construction in the United States. Groups of men driving in railroad ties for western railroad expansion in late 1800s (reenactment). Horse drawn wagons carry equipment for railroad construction. Men work constructing railroads. A gusher oil well spraying oil. View of a port area with many idle tall sailing ships and merchant vessels docked in the harbor, seemingly replaced by railroads as chief method of transporting goods. Close up of a masthead of a woman on one of the sailing ships. Reduction in the number of ships because of inadequate financial assistance by the government. Reenacted portrayal of ironclad ship ramming a wooden tall sailing ship during Civil War. Actual footage from 1898 of U.S. military forces unloading foreign-bought ships during Spanish American War of 1898. U.S. soldiers unload supplies and bring them ashore on beaches of Cuba. View of paddle wheel steam ship named "City of Memphis" steaming on Mississippi River. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. Tug boats push massive freight loads along a waterway in the United States. Men on the deck of a ship that is cutting through ice during spring thaw on the Great Lakes. Ship passing through lock of a domestic U.S. canal. View from inside the wheel house a large domestic waterway ship in the United States.
U.S. Navy PBY Catalina at a beach in the United States. Air crewmen standing in front of the U.S. Navy PBY Catalina. PBY going down a sea plane ramp. The airplane taxiing in water. PBY in flight overhead.
Activities of the U.S. Navy personnel in the United States during the Battle of Midway of World war II. U.S. Navy PBY Catalina airplane parked at a beach. Crewmen working on the airplane. Bombs loaded under the wing section. Cockpit of the airplane. Man seated in the airplane while in flight. An officer saluting. Three airplanes flying in formation.
A U.S. Marine Corps Reconnaissance Team begins a field training exercise, after having landed from a submarine and changed into their camouflage fatigues. They patrol through small trees and underbrush. A Grumman S2F aircraft lands on a small airstrip, and the recon team emerges from the woods to board it for flight back to their base. A formation of marines with field gear, starts to move double-time along a dirt path. A formation of Sikorsky H-34 helicopters seen flying low over plumes of black smoke rising. Marines, in amphibious assault training operation, approach surf in Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs). They run from the LVTs as they hit the beach. Marine infantry and M48 Patton tanks during actual combat (or realistic training exercise), with large plumes of black smoke rising in various locations.
Women display wooden bathing suits in Hoquaim, Washington. Three women wearing swimsuits cut thin strips of wood. They put thin pieces of these strips on their swimsuits. Women wearing wooden swimsuits get into water at the beach. They display their swimsuits.
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