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Licensing of Merchant Marine seamen and officers by the U.S. Coast Guard

Chart shows number of Merchant Marine seamen increasing as World War 2 progresses. Agents of the Coast Guard, the U.S. Maritime Commission, and the Public Health Service collaborate to assure fitness of Merchant Marine seamen. Some are seen being given physical exams by a physician. A prospective seaman demonstrates his skill with ropes. Coastguardsman observes skills of a candidate seaman at the wheel of a ship. A candidate receiving his Merchant Seaman's Certificate from the Coast Guard. Officers enter the Marine License Examination Room. Inside, men are seen taking exams to qualify for licenses as Masters, Mates, Engineers, and Pilots. Merchant Marine seamen being sworn in. Licensed seamen engineers being finger printed. Coast Guard officers supervise the signing of Shipping Articles (contracts between masters and crewmen). A line of seamen waiting to sign on to a ship. Coast Guard offices on shore where seamen may sign on to a ship. Seamen receiving pay under supervision of the Coast Guard.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058114
U.S. soldiers check tags and place bags in their proper order at Camp Kilmer in New Jersey, United States.

Camp Kilmer in New Jersey, United States. Barracks bags lined up outside wooden barracks. U.S. soldiers check tags and place bags in proper order. The soldiers seated on the barracks bags smoke cigarette. Soldiers are wearing helmets and knitted fatigue caps. (World War II period).

Location: New Jersey United States USA
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058136
U.S. soldiers carrying full field packs and rifles march get off a train with their bags in New York.

Soldiers bound for war: U.S. troops entrain at the New York port for transportation to the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers carrying full field packs and rifles assemble outside barracks and march forward from Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Interior of a moving troop transport train. A soldier peels and eats an orange. Other soldiers sleep, rest and look out of a window of the railroad train. The soldiers get off the train with their bags in New York. The New York skyline in the background.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1944, June 5
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058137
U.S. Navy nurses arrive to take up their hospital duties in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.

U.S. Navy nurses in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands during World War II. The nurses disembark from a ship. They wave and get onto a boat. They get off the boat at a pier. GIs welcome the nurses. The nurses arrive in Guadalcanal to take up their hospital duties. A nurse standing beside a tree poses for a camera.

Location: Guadalcanal Solomon Islands
Date: 1944, May 8
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058147
A conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat because of high price and lack of food for military in the U.S.

Rationing of food in the United States. People go to stores with ration cards. Tins of food on shelves. Food packets and vegetables in a store. People buy food using the ration cards. Clothes on a string. People walk along a road with their rations. Shops and stores along the road. A dramatization: A house wife comes in a store to buy black market meat. The conscience-stricken housewife refuses to buy black market meat when the consequences (high price and lack of food for military) are explained to her. The housewife goes away. Pictures of soldiers, Marines and pilots. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058157
U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop supplies for Italian partisans on snow-covered fields of Italy (WW2)

United States OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War II. In support of Italian anti-fascists and anti-Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies for Italian partisans on snow-covered fields.

Location: Italy
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058185
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