A film shows various activities of U.S. Navy sailors in the United States likely during a training event. A group of sailors peel potato vegetables. Giant pile of potatoes beside the sailors. The sailors take their seats in an outdoor mess and eat. The sailors write on papers.
A training film based on biological warfare defense and decontamination of U.S. ships in the United States. A U.S. Task Force underway. U.S. officers look through binoculars. An officer turns on a chemical alarm aboard a ship. Gun crews put on their protective gas masks.
Atomic weapons development in the United States Army. Exterior of a building. An officer briefs men about the new technology. Men work behind computers. A technician fixes a machine. Trainees watch an atom through a microscope and work on it. Soldiers train to become atomic technicians in the military. Soldier trainees attend a lecture. The professor discusses the atom structure and the mechanics of the atom. A man inspects a rocking rocket.
'So's Your Old Man' depicts activities of older American men in the United States Coast Guard during World War II. Recruitment of older men in coast guard service. A doctor examines an old man. The man seated with his wife in his house listening to a radio. He arrives at a building. 'US Coast Guard Volunteer Security Force' written on the top of a cabin. The man talks to other man seated in the cabin. Training being given to the older men. They march. Buildings along a side. The men seated in a class room. An officer explains a model to them. They practice drilling. They hit target boards with pistols. The men in coast guard uniforms stand in formation. An officer reviews them. Auxiliary Coast Guard patrol vessels. Men guard Liberty ships and warehouses. Women give them coffee and doughnuts.
People undertaking measures to beat the heat in the United States during the 1937 heat wave. People gather in a large number near the swimming pools. Children dive in the water and swim. Fountains erected in city streets where children gather to play. People pass through the street as water being sprinkled with the help of fountains. A female secretary wearing a bathing suit sits at a desk and takes dictation from a man. Inventor Horatio Casterbilt (or Casterbuilt) shows and wears a hat with a fan motor attached to it to keep his head cool. From a August 1962 newsreel depicting events 25 years earlier.
Landing Ship Tanks in the United States. Engineers work on an unfinished Landing Ship Tank at a shipyard. The engineers welding and working on various parts of the ship. Men and women work together to build Landing Ship Tanks. Prefabricated structures fitted together. Ship rolled out of the yard to make room for another ship. Sailors get aboard the ship. An officer reads names from a piece of paper in his hand.
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