Volunteers in queue to help harvest food crops in Maine, United States during World War II. College women plant potatoes. Tractors used for harvesting. String beans or green beans gathered after cutting. Volunteers working at a shed. Packaging and preservation of food. Trucks unload at a storage place. Tomatoes are cleaned. Workers at assembly line canning and packaging machinery, processing tomatoes and other vegetables and canning them, including for use in soldier rations for World War 2. Vegetables treated and stored. Boxes of canned vegetables ready for shipment in the war effort.
President and Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson stand on steps of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church (400 St Francis St, Stonewall, TX 78671, United States), near the LBJ ranch in Stonewall, Texas. Their daughter, Luci Baines (Johnson) Nugent emerges from the church carrying their newly baptized grandson, Patrick Lyndon Nugent. Husband Patrick John Nugent stands beside his wife. Lynda Bird Johnson, proxy Godmother, poses with them and holds the baby.
President Truman and members of his party gathering informally aboard the U. S. S. Augusta as the ship entered Chesapeake Bay, returning President Truman from the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Camera pans from right to left, over the group,assembled on deck, under one of shrouded triple 8 in (203 mm)/55 caliber guns of the Augusta. Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy stands to the left of President Truman. To the President's right, are Secretary of State, James Byrnes, Press Secretary, Charles Ross, and Naval Aide Captain James K. Vardaman. Next, as the Aurusta enters Hampton Roads, she passes close to a Brooklyn Class Light Cruiser, with her ship's company standing at attention on deck in dress whites. Closeup of the ship and crew as the Augusta passes to starboard. Wide view of Hampton Roads in the vicinity of the Naval Operating Base (Norfolk). A commercial ferry boat, spewing heavy black smoke from her stack, passes close to port. A barge decked out in patriotic bunting is seen as the Augusta approaches her berth. Glimpse of welcoming officers as the Augusta moves into position, docking, at Newport News, Virginia. Ship's mascot,dog, Scottie, standing on deck next to a sailor handling a line.
Elements of the First Cavalry Division of the United States Army, on maneuvers in Marfa, Texas. Seventh Cavalry Regiment deploys for an "attack. " Soldiers ride their horses and take up positions. Elements of the 82nd Field Artillery (Horse) Battalion are seen pulling several French 75 field artillery pieces with them.
Japanese-American U.S. Army soldiers, receiving training at Camp Shelby in Missouri, United States, during World War 2. Convoy of amphibious vehicles and jeeps drive on mud roads. Army engineers on amphibious vehicle in a river. Engineers return back to the river banks. Organized military crew at the bank receives orders to built pontoon bridge. Soldiers tie ropes, assemble bridge, and arrange its pieces in river to make a complete river bridge. Rifled soldiers cross the bridge. The highest rank Nisei officer instructs as the soldiers set dynamite, the officer demonstrates dynamite explosion.
United States Texas Senator Lyndon Johnson in an interview admires former President Roosevelt. The majority leader in Senate reveals that he strongly believes in a philosophy that "I am a free man first,an American second,a senator third and then a Democrat." He talks about placing national interests much above personal and party interests. He also speaks about his heart attack and an unsigned letter from President Eisenhower.
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