Activities in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, United States during Armistice Day commemorations on November 11, 1936. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Arlington Cemetery, standing beside U.S. Navy Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn. A large crowd gathered at the amphitheater near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. U.S. Army General John Pershing speaks at amphitheater in Arlington.
A film shows veteran soldiers enrolling at the United States Armed Forces Institute in the United States. A book on the desk reads 'USAFI'. A hand opens the book. A boy seated on a desk fills the form and puts it in an envelop. The USAFI '(United States Armed Forces Institute )building. A sign reads 'War and Navy Departments, United States Armed Forces Institute'. A woman works at a typewriter. Another woman takes out the students list. People make bundles of the books for first course. A man and a woman seated at a desk check the enrollment forms. The University building. A woman checks the papers. A woman enters the building. Women seated on a desk work on a paper. A man seated on a desk looks into the papers. A man and a woman pack the text material to be mailed to students. A boy lying in his bed as he reads a book. An officer writes on a blackboard and students seated in a classroom. A certificate from the USAFI. A woman works on a typewriter. The University campus. Students in a class. A man at a blackboard. A student holds the degree and stands. Another student wearing gown and a hat.
Shows Bob Burns, an American radio and film comedian and American Hollywood actress and singer Shirley Ross singing a song together. She talks about singing another song. They look into a paper and sing sunshine Nel-lie song. They stand near a fan .The lyrics of the song.
A U.S. Marine demonstrates his weapon familiarity by taking a blindfold test. The blindfolded marine kneels on the ground next to his Lewis machine gun. The gun is set on the ground in front of him on a bipod support. He reaches and removes the cylindrical magazine from the gun. Then he removes the stock and proceeds to field strip the weapon down to the smallest parts, entirely by feel. He leans back and removes his blindfold, when done, and stands up.
The SS Leviathan, the largest ocean liner afloat, (former German ocean liner Vaterland, seized and renamed by the U.S. Government in 1917, as America entered World War 1). Tug boats assist the three-stacker Leviathan as she enters New York harbor. Tug boats working with another troop ship (two-stacker) in the harbor. Ferry boat in background. A sleek troop transport ship with two slanted stacks and rakish lines, accentuated by camouflage, in a New Jersey harbor.Two Navy troop ships underway with an airplane flying overhead. A column of U.S. Navy troop transport ships underway in the Atlantic ocean. A barrage balloon is seen overhead.
Life aboard the SS Leviathan troopship, carrying 12 thousand American soldiers to France during World War 1.The largest ship afloat, she was formerly the German ocean liner, Vaterland. Soldiers in regular sleeping compartments lie on vertical bunks, some stacked 3 or 4 high. View of the Sick Bay on the ship where patients have less crowded conditions. A Navy medical officer makes rounds, checking each patient. A medical technician is seen sterilizing instruments in a steam autoclave.
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