U.S. and other allied military officers in London, England shortly before the Invasion of France by Allied forces. A soccer (football) match played near London. The match in progress. A large number of people gathered to watch the match. U.S. Army officers and British officers seated in a stand as they watch the game of soccer. An officer smokes a cigar as he watches the game. A wounded soldier with bandaged face watches the game. (World War II period).
Living conditions aboard U.S. Navy destroyer USS Saufley (EDDE-465), underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Officer's bunk room as officers file reports and documents. Sailor assists another in checking out a football from the ship's combination athletic locker room and book library. Sailors play a card game in mess hall. A sailor writes a letter. Sailors being shown a movie in mess hall. The film projector is seen running and projecting the movie image on a wall. Sailors sleeping in bunk beds packed closely together. Sailors disembark from the ship.
What appears to be a fortress, with flag flying over it and a very tall steel tower standing in front of substantial buildings near the water's edge. Egyptian fishing boats docked at breakwater in Port-Said, with Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps in the background. Camera pans along the waterway, photographing a steamship and more fishing sail boats in the vicinity of the Lesseps monument. Scene shifts to the land, where local people are going about their routine workaday activities. It appears to be late in the day, with lengthened shadows and most shops closed. View changes to looking down from a fortress where visitors are going up stairs. Then a view from high up on a cross bridge where visitors have a view of rock outcroppings and excavations and a cave related to Suez canal construction. Another scene depicts several historic-looking buildings and a deep basin so large that Egyptian youths are playing football (soccer) in it. (Note: the film is reversed.)
Performance of the Gaonas family trapeze artists during a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus show. Views of the act and of the audience watching the show. Interview of Tito Gaona by the show host, in Spanish. Tito Gaona playing soccer (football) with other circus performers on a team he organized with fellow circus performers from all over the world.
Thanksgiving 1944 in Northeastern France, with the U.S. 26th Infantry Division, during World War 2. Several U.S. Army women nurses walk through muddy snow covered field in Northeastern France, during World War II. One of them pulls a small sled. At the same time,US troops march along sides of a nearby road. A U.S. soldier is issued a winter coat by a quartermaster.Other soldiers putting on new overcoats. U.S. troops in overcoats march along a wet road. A soldier holds up a sign reading," 26 'Yankee' Infantry Division, HAPPY- THANKSGIVING !, Europe 1944." The troops huddle over field cook stoves in a field. They smoke cigarettes. Large group of U.S. soldiers in a chow line near a cemetery in a French town (probably Dieuze, which they captured on November 20th). They receive a Thanksgiving dinner. Soldiers playing football on a snow covered field.
Landmarks and monuments in Los Angeles, California. Royce Hall on the campus of University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Students on campus. Buildings and grounds on campus. The Tommy Trojan statue at the University of Southern California. Youth Triumphant fountain in front of Bovard Auditorium at the University of Southern California (USC). The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Football team in stadium. Large crowd of spectators. Players in stadium. Sign of the U.S. flag.
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