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A man applies and receives a courier of his acceptance from the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps in the U.S.

A film titled 'Tomorrow's leaders of the Merchant Marine' shows merchant marine officer candidates in the United States. Sail boats at sea. Seamen operate artillery aboard a ship. The seamen take transfer to another ship. Men aboard a ship. A man applies to the Merchant Marine Academy to become a Merchant Marine Officer. He writes the address of the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps. The man works in his office. His mother receives a courier from the Merchant Marine Cadet Corps. She calls her son. The man reads the news of his acceptance and the order to be present for a physical examination.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058094
Two U.S. Merchant Marine seamen who survived in life rafts are interviewed by U.S. officials.

Wartime safety measures for United States Merchant seamen. A document reads 'Wartime Safety Measures for Merchant Marine'. Survivors of sinking ships are asked to give suggestions by U.S. officials to improve survival at sea. Two Merchant seamen are interviewed by officials. They share their experience of spending days on a raft after sinking of their ship. Both seamen are shown on a raft floating at sea. They wave to ships passing faraway but ships did not notice them on raft. Officer asks if they had any signaling device on raft. Seaman says they never had any device but they used a tin can as a reflector to signal the ships. An aircraft flies overhead and seaman uses tin can to signal the aircraft and a cutter is sent for rescue. A U.S. Navy officer holds a mirror which is made required equipment on life rafts.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058112
U.S. soldiers exercise and take shower as a troop train stops at a station and prepare to sleep aboard the train in the U.S.

Railroad transportation for military divisions in the United States. Soldiers of the 201st Armored Division exercise in a field as a railroad train stops nearby. They run and take an outdoor shower below an elevated water spout that covers the group. The locomotive train approaches and moves along tracks as seen from low camera position with train approaching. The soldiers play mouth organs. The train moves across a bridge. A man lowers a middle berth. The soldiers prepare to sleep. A soldier gives an order of no smoking. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058134
Material of war being loaded onto vessels and piles of invasion equipment readied in USA and Britain.

War materiel in the United States amassed to serve as D-Day invasion equipment for invasion of France during World War II. At a U.S. port, airplanes are lifted to the decks of ships that are loaded with freight for invasion preparation ports. Materials of war being loaded into vessels. A ship convoy underway at sea. In a British port, piled up material and equipment for invasion armies preparing for war. African American soldiers unload ships. Tires, soap, tobacco, candy and refuse cans. Rolling stock, tanks, gasoline drums, pontoon boats, railroad cars, locomotives, boats, trucks, ambulances, guns and bombs are seen. Rows of gliders, fighter warplanes, and various airplanes are shown parked and ready for shipment. Bomb shells stacked and ready.

Date: 1944, May 8
Duration: 2 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058145
A conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat because of high price and lack of food for military in the U.S.

Rationing of food in the United States. People go to stores with ration cards. Tins of food on shelves. Food packets and vegetables in a store. People buy food using the ration cards. Clothes on a string. People walk along a road with their rations. Shops and stores along the road. A dramatization: A house wife comes in a store to buy black market meat. The conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat when the consequences (high price and lack of food for military) are explained to her. The housewife goes away. Pictures of soldiers, Marines and pilots. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058157
American citizens walking in towns and cities during World War 2, with ration song "It's up to you" in background.

Rationing of food in the United States during World War 2. Propaganda song jingle heard on film soundtrack with words "It's up to you, mister, what do you say? It's up to you, sister, starting today." Other lines include "You can fix that shoe and you can wear it. And you can cut down food, and you can share it. Mister, sister, it's up to you." American citizens walking in American towns. A woman passes a storefront. Poster in window says "Your blood may save your next of kin" (encouraging blood donations). Another sign recruits woman SPARS for military service. Women exiting a church. A woman working tilling a victory garden. Men and women pedestrians and workers crossing city streets during a work day. A large crowd gathers in an open square.

Date: 1943
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058158