Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Posters on the wall of a building. Activities of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS). Women working inside a building. A woman types a document. Other woman works in a radio room. Ships underway at sea. A coast guard watches enemy actions through binoculars. Officials discuss a wall map. They locate places and plan strategies.
Domestic activities of the United States Coast Guard in the United States during World War II. Smoke from the stacks of a ship. A sign outside a building reads: United States Coast Guard Barge Office'. Coast guardsmen are trained at the office. An officer instructs and trains them. They are trained for port security job. They study sabotage detection. A ship docked in a harbor. Men load supplies onto the ship. They are trained for handling explosives, gasoline and ammunition. Specially trained men load the explosives. A sign on the ship reads: 'No Smoking fire is sabotage'. The coast guards battle a ship fire. They throw water from hoses to control the fire.
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.
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt aboard USS Tuscaloosa (Ca-37) in the United States. A fleet of United States aircraft in flight over a fleet of U.S. ships at sea. President Roosevelt talks to an official on the ship. Aircraft parked on the ship deck with the American flag on the bow of the ship. Other ships underway.
Progress report of United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H in the United States. United States Air Force B-52H aircraft taxis and takes off from the runway. The aircraft carries GAM-77 cruise missile under its wing during flight. The GAM-77 cruise missile releases from the B-52H aircraft.
Progress report of United States Air Force B-52G and B-52H in the United States. GAM-87 missile mounted under the wing of United States Air Force B-52G aircraft. The Boeing crew loads the ballistic missile under the wing of the B-52G aircraft. The aircraft in flight with the ballistic missile.
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