The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees get aboard a Patrol Torpedo Boat for the first time. An officer gives directions to the crew. The throttle of the boat placed in full speed. Wake on water surface as torpedo boats speed. Four torpedoes and a depth charger on the boat. A skipper calls the trainees forward and explains the operation of the wheel and other controls. He turns the wheel during a sharper turn. One of the trainees operates the wheel.
The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees play with a large ball. 'PT' written on the ball. A boxing championship with onlookers watching. A board reads 'Men Working' with trainees reading papers in the background. An officer looks through a sextant. The trainees speak over wireless phones. A trainee reads a book 'Rules of the Road'. The trainee bumps into an officer while walking on a road reading his book. They learn to handle large torpedoes.
The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees undergo diving training. An instructor explains how to work with a helmet. One of the trainee dons a diving helmet and goes into water. The trainees learn to repair the motor of a boat. They learn sign language. An officer reviews the trainees and sailors standing in a line.
The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees undergo squadron maneuvers. A number of Patrol Torpedo Boats underway. One of them gives flag signals. A trainee on a wheel. The trainees fire at objects as a part of their training. Officers read their marks from a paper on a board. Two trainees use a broom as their rifles and practice target shooting. (World War II period).
Hollywood actor Joe E. Brown gives a speech appealing for blood donations in Washington DC, United States. Brown seated at table. He makes a speech and makes an appeal to the nation to donate blood for the soldiers fighting in the Korean War. He makes the appeal on behalf of the armed services.
Strike bound factories and labor disputes in the United States. Views from bridge overlooking rail yards.Armed sentries patrolling the area. Soldiers guard the factories from roof tops. The soldiers sit in a factory site with guns. They sit on roofs with rifles. Workers in sit down strikes on the ground. A soldier aims from a roof. People stand on roads. Soldiers man machine guns on the city streets. U.S. Army troops raid the offices of the Lithuanian Communist newspaper,"Laisve" confiscate their papers and shut them down.
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