A chemical warfare training film based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to various gases during World War II. Soldiers marching in a forest in the United States encounter a tear gas attack (dramatized for training). The soldiers put on their gas masks. They continue to march. A soldier without a gas mask faces problems as his eyes burn. He uses a solution of sodium bicarbonate to rinse his eyes at the nearest battalion aid station.
A chemical warfare training film based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to various gases during World War II. Smoke rising from a DM (Adamsite) candle on a training batllefield in the United States. Soldiers walk through the smoke-covered battlefield. A soldier falls down (dramatization) after coming in contact with DM candle smoke. The casualty is evacuated from the field by a medic. At an encampment next to a forest, the soldier gargles with a solution of sodium bicarbonate at an aid station to prevent throat infection. The same soldier breathes through a bottle containing chlorine. He lies down on the ground after receiving treatment. Three solutions chlorine, phosgene and chloropicrin in test tubes. A soldier shows how these three gases can be released in a field.
A training film based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to phosgene gas during World War II. Soldiers start to move after resting for a while on a field in the United States. A soldier forgets his gas mask. A group of soldiers marches. The soldier who forgot his mask becomes stricken with symptoms gradually. He falls down and is assisted by a medic. The soldier is placed on a litter and is evacuated to a nearby aid station. The soldier's clothing is loosened to facilitate breathing and he is given hot drinks. He is removed on a litter and checked out as a litter case.
A World War II chemical warfare training film based on U.S. soldiers being treated for exposure to white phosphorous particles during a war. Soldiers run away as a white phosphorous bomb explodes in the United States. The soldiers in a ditch try to remove phosphorous particles from their bodies. Severely wounded soldiers are evacuated. Bandages from a soldier's body are removed at a battalion aid station. Copper sulphate and tannic acid solutions are used on phosphorous burns. The soldiers march.
Unemployed African American citizens in America during the Great Depression. Close up views of many idle, sad, and dejected African American men and women out of work, in lines, during the depression. A man looks at a bulletin board of an employment agency at 165 W 131st St in New York City. African American men and women stand in a bread line or food relief or unemployment line in United States. They get jobs through Works Progress Administration. African Americans working at factories, in classroom teaching, in offices typing, as an accordion musician, as a painter in a studio, as a bricklayer, and in an industrial kitchen. Views of smiling, happy African American workers, both men and women.
Harry S. Truman takes oath at office of United States President. Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone swears him as the President. He traces the rise of Truman to the highest office of the country, his birth place, life as a soldier and service during World War I and II. Election as Senator and Vice President to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Inaugural address to the congress and role during the World War II.
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