Nuclear-powered missile submarine USS Ohio arrives at the Bangor Submarine Base in Washington, United States. Officers and crew of the USS Ohio stand in formation on Delta Pier. Two Admirals and a Captain step down from VIP stand. They are followed by the two Captains of the USS Ohio, Captain A.K. Thompson and Captain A.F. Campbell, who greet their family members. A large number of women stand in a group. The crowd leaves as the sailors stand with their families. Several sailors hug and kiss their family members. A child sleeps in his mother's arms. Reporters interview crew members and cameramen take photographs. An Admiral being interviewed.
On Election Day, November 7, 1944, in World War 2, Americans are seen waiting patiently to vote. They stand in a long line extending down a city sidewalk next to brick and stone buildings. Views of several persons in the line. Scene shifts in flashback to the election of Woodrow Wilson, in 1912. Four men on horseback arrive at a polling place. Another travels to vote, in his 1910 Ford Model T truck. Change of time and place shows farmer arriving by horse-drawn wagon and walking to polling place past 1930s car and truck. A fully laden truck stops at a rural gasoline station, temporarily serving as polling place. American town residential street scene in the 1930s. Citizens gathering to vote at a polling place set up at a laundry shop, in the Bronx Borough of New York City. Views of various places in the United States, serving as polling places. Americans seen waiting to vote at various places, in the 1944 national election. Among the sites shown is Bridgeport Central High School, built in 1916, (which later became Bridgeport City Hall), at 45 Lyon Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Persons in various places, registering to vote, including actor Lewis Stone, actress Esther Williams, and USO entertainer, Bob Hope. Voter closing curtain behind him as he votes in a voting booth. Views of voters' feet, below curtains, as they vote. Various types of boxes. Newspaper headline speaks of the large voter turnout in millions during the 1944 election. Shipyard workers at end of their shift, are seen heading to the polls to vote.
U.S. Air Force officers return to the United States in World War II. The officers with their families in Washington DC. Buildings in the background. One of the officers returns to his home in Piqua, Ohio. A sign board reads: 'Welcome to Piqua'. Buildings along the sides of the street. The officer with his family in his home. People gather at his home to greet him. He hugs his sister.
Large crowd cheers as an American football match in Big Ten between Ohio State University and Illinois University go on in United States. Ohio State defeats Illinois by 26-0.
University of Cincinnati defeats Ohio State to take the collegiate basketball title in United States. Teams from Cincinnati and Ohio State playing a basketball game. Players shooting, dribbling, and passing. Cincinnati wins the game and the title.
Students of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio take up various courses and on the job training to learn skills. A college student girl looks after a young child and helps him to put on a Native American Indian costume during play time. A day nursery in Cleveland Ohio where children play around a table and a young boy smiles while he finger paints. Students working at the Sigma Gamma Hospital in Detroit (also called Memorial Orthopedic Hospital, and later St. John North Shores Hospital) tend and treat children suffering from paralysis from polio. A young woman assists a boy in removing his leg braces. She then carries him to an indoor swimming pool and gently sets him down in the water, where the two of them play with a toy boat. Next scene shows a boys' club in Dayton, Ohio where young boys play table tennis (ping pong) and others look on. Students of Antioch College supervise athletics near Chicago, as a group of young women college students practice hand stands and . At the college the students gain first hand experience in child study. A woman at the Bells Research Institute of Antioch College works with a boy who is disabled (possibly polio). Girls look after children and do case work for children in need.
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