Nellie Tayloe Ross, the 28th Director of the Mint, and Employees at the United States Mint, Department of Treasury oversee the first shipment of government gold from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia to the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Clip shows casting and weighing of government gold, at the U.S. Mint facility in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Nellie Tayloe Ross seen speaking and seated at a desk with other officials nearby. Mint officials check the quality and dimensions of a cast gold bar to be transported to Fort Knox in Kentucky. Gold molded into bars by ram machines. Nellie Tayloe Ross signs papers. Molding machines and employees at work. Molten gold in a kiln. Man casts it into gold bars. Officials and armed guards keep an eye on the process. Gold bars are placed on one side of a large scale and weighed. Exterior view of the U.S. Mint department building in Philadelphia. View is of the third U.S. Mint building in Philadelphia, North facade, facing Spring Garden Street (building later owned by the Community College of Philadelphia, as of 1973). Late 1930's automobiles seen passing by the U.S. Mint on Spring Garden Street.
Garden Party for United States soldiers at White House, Washington DC. Troops stand in files. President Franklin Roosevelt addresses the soldiers. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt talks to soldiers. Women at the Garden Party. Soldiers talk to a woman. The White House during the Party. (World War II period).
United States Marine Corps during a sweep mission in Vietnam. Marine soldiers in a dense jungle. Marines move across swamps and dense wild forest carrying their rifles. Marine talks on a radio telephone set. Marines locate enemy and take safeguard positions. One of them aims rifle in the air. (Vietnam War period).
United States Marine Corps move across swamps and dense wild forest carrying rifles during a sweep mission in Vietnam. Marines locate enemy and take safeguard position. Two Marines firing from a machine gun post. Another one also fires from his machine gun. Marine crawls in dry bushes and grass to take cover. Explosion near the machine gun post, by an enemy grenade. (Vietnam War period).
90th Replacement Battalion of United States Army arrives in Vietnam. Soldiers watch from inside a building, the commercial jet (747) taxi at an unloading area. One of them takes photograph. Soldiers descend from the plane carrying their luggage and walk in group towards a building.YYY (Vietnam War period).
90th Replacement Battalion of United States Army arrives in Vietnam during Vietnam War. Soldiers descend from a plane and walk towards a building. Soldiers unload barrack bags from a loading truck and luggage cart. They place them on luggage counter where other soldiers also wait for their luggage. Empty luggage cart. the Soldiers walk with their luggage.
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