United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. He attends memorial services at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The President with his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and other officials. Soldiers standing in formation. The President, his wife and the officials pay homage to the soldiers who died in war and place wreaths on a memorial.
Activities of West Point cadets in Virginia, United States. They are on a trip to Fort Eustis, Fort Monroe and Langley Field. They observe field artillery exercises at the places. They fire field artillery. Some of the cadets watch through binoculars. Smoke rises due to firing.
Activities of West Point cadets in the United States. The cadets attend ordnance exercises at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Officers aboard an armored car moving along the ground. The car moves along a ramp. Trees in the background. A cadet looks through a pierced armor plate which was pierced as a result of firing a 12 inch armor piercing projectile. Men look for the projectile which bursts after piercing the armor plate. The cadets gather for the demonstration of a 16 inch seacoast gun. Officers stand nearby and fire the gun. Smoke rises as the gun is fired.
Release of Charles F. Urschel by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Oklahoma, United States. A map locate areas. The map illustrates activities and developments in millionaire Charles F. Urschel' s kidnapping case. Men seated in a court room. A federal judge gives verdict for the kidnapping case. An airplane parked at an air base. 'American Airways' written on the airplane. Exterior of a building. FBI agents walk on the street in front of the building. Guns and rifles placed outside the building to display. Men gather outside the building.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. A man in the midwest United States walks in sidewalk of a neighborhood street. Narrator discusses the comfort of living in an area where buildings, homes, and farms were not affected by war. Buildings along the sides of the street. People shop in a grocery store and views of produce and vegetables in the store. A sign reads: 'No Butter Today' and narrator mentions shortages as being small inconveniences compared to shortages and starvation in war-torn Europe. Children play in a playground enjoying jungle gym bars and a slide. Boys and girls enjoying swing sets. Exteriors of St. Louis Cathedral church building with its two steeples, in St. Louis, Missouri. A delivery horse-cart of a milk man moves on a quiet neighborhood street. The draft horse has feathered fetlocks. Sign on side of delivery wagon reads, "Insist on Clover Leaf Pasteurized Milk. It's Safe." (Cloverleaf Dairy was in Springfield, Missouri.) A milk man walks towards a house in the midwestern town. View of a hand giving a telegram to a woman. View of a sign with 3 blue stars in window, showing that home has a man serving in war. Narrator describes blue stars having given way to gold stars, meaning killed in war. Photographs of soldiers on the table in a home where they lost a loved one at war.
United States Army artillerymen arrive with a caisson and field piece, at a training observation post in a field at Fort Crook, Nebraska. They separate the gun from the caisson and begin to set it up. The next scene shows an artillery unit with teams of horses pulling caissons and field pieces. Scene reverts back to artillery observation post, where soldiers erect an observation ladder from their caisson,stabilized by guy wires. A soldier climbs it to observe from the top, with binoculars. More artillery is seen being pulled across the training fields. A horseman gallops across the field past the camera. He meets and officer standing by a flag and salutes after receiving an order, and gallops off.
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