Chicago White Sox get ready for the baseball season, March 1950. Players warm up throwing arms. Manager Jack Onslow, second from right, confers with coaches. Pitchers Bill Wight and Bob Kuzava chat. Players practice sliding in sliding pit, send sawdust flying. Hall of Fame shortstop Luke Appling (#4) clowns for the camera with an oversize mitt. Pitcher Billy Pierce (#19) throws batting practice. Hall of Fame second baseman Nellie Fox (#26) swings at a pitch. Slugger Gus Zernial (#6) takes a swing. (Note: There is no indication where the film was shot but the White Sox trained that year in Pasadena California.)
South Korean President Syngman Rhee in the United States. He addresses a Joint Session of the Congress in Washington DC. Officials gather in a large number in a hall. They give a standing ovation to the South Korean President. The officials seated in the hall. U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon seated with the officials. Rhee stands at a podium and addresses the officials. He urges for U.S. air and naval support for an attack on Red China.
French nurse Genevieve de Galard-Terraube receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington DC. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube stands with other people outside a building. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to her. Cameramen take her photographs.
Maneuvers of naval cadets in Virginia. United States and Canadian cadets demonstrate joint maneuvers. Helicopters in flight over a sea. Marines aboard a landing craft. They wade ashore. Airplanes in flight over a beach. Paratroopers jump out of the airplanes and descend towards the land. The helicopters in flight overhead.
Scenes of U.S. troops training in amphibious assaults and manning and firing antiaircraft guns. Animated map showing U.S. Army film distribution centers in various countries during World War 2.
Activities of civilian workers and soldiers at the War Department and Navy Department buildings in Washington DC, early in World War 2. Exterior of a building. 'Navy Department' written on the building. A crowd enters the building. Buses and other vehicles drive past along a street. 'War Department' written on a building. Soldiers stand outside the building. Soldiers and marines near a truck. Soldiers in front of the Munitions Department. Women come out of the building. Armed guards stand outside a building.
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