United States Senator from Washington Henry M. Jackson delivers a speech in the United States. Senator Henry Jackson arrives at a podium and delivers a speech during the presidential election campaign of 1972. Newsmen take down notes.
United States CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) cooks being trained at camp during the Great Depression in the United States. CCC cooks work in kitchen. The workers stir large pots of stew. A cook carries a piece of meat, walks up stairs. U.S. Army officer instructs cook as he cuts the piece of meat. The cook tastes a piece of meat and nods in approval.
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) recruits attend a ceremony at a camp during the Great Depression in the United States. Man blows a bugle. CCC recruits rush toward the assembly area. The men line up on snowfield. The United States flag is lowered during the ceremony.
U.S. Generals with pioneer of American commercial radio and television David Sarnoff in an office in the United States. Interior of the office shows U.S. Army Major General Spencer Akin, Chief Signal Officer, with United States Air Force General Harrison Thyng, David Sarnoff and others.
U.S. Federal provisions for the education of the North American Indians in the United States during the Great Depression era. Native American Indian students come out of Chemawa Indian School boarding school in Oregon. An elementary school in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Indian children on the grounds of Shiprock Reservation in New Mexico. Animated map depicts Indian schools in the United States. Cloth lines on the grounds of a school. A man walks out of a government school building.
Plans underway in the United States in 1944 for participation in the invasion of France during World War 2 by Allied forces. A U.S. Army sentry of the Army Service Forces (ASF) patrols a rail line, where military men and equpment are being transported abroad., during World War 2. ASF soldiers drive DUKWs (amphibious vehicles) up a ramp for loading into railroad box cars. A long line of DUKWs being driven for loading. Many men load 55 gallon drums of petroleum products into rail cars. An M3 Stuart light tank being driven on an open rail car. Soldiers loading motorcycles on a train. An Army M3 Half-track Amored Personnel Carrier (APC) driving onto a railroad train. (Narrator notes that it requires 75 trains to transport a single Armored Division by rail.) Men loading a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (Called Priest, by the British) onto a flat rail car and securing it in place with wooden supports. Army personnel that would participate in an invasion are shown. Paratroopers with their packs. Women's Army Corps (WACs) fill their duffel bags with clothing and other items, and are then seen climbing aboard an open stake truck. An Army band plays and marches giving troops a sendoff at a train station. U.S. soldiers board passenger railroad trains, carrying their field packs and weapons. A steam locomotive pulling a troop train. A train load of Sherman M4 medium tanks and other equipment, including a caterpillar tractor, is seen underway. Unidentified tanks being fastened to rail flat car. Many Army trucks and heavy equipment on train passing a town train station. Military equipment moving on trains over bridges. Two ladies under hair dryers at a salon, discussing boys in service going overseas. United States Army troops bound for the war front are seen boarding railroad trains and also changing trains, monitored by Army military police (MPs) at night. Soldiers inside a moving train car occupy themselves by playing cards; shooting craps; An African American porter watches a game. An Army chaplain talking with some of the soldiers. A soldier reading a magazine. His seat partner keeps falling asleep against him. American civilians at a newsstand. Newspaper headline reads: "London expects invasion of Europe at any hour."
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