Widow of Commander Willis Thomas launches the U.S. submarine K-1 in Groton, Connecticut. Photographers click. Submarine K-1 launched and goes in sea. People see submarine going into sea.
President Dwight D Eisenhower arrives to address the American Field Service students from different countries at the White House (The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, DC 20500) in Washington DC. Foreign students applaud for President Eisenhower. Journalists take photographs of the president using cameras. President Eisenhower waves at the students. Elvie Nicolopoulou, an American Field Service student from Greece, smiling. The President outlines his principles for the Geneva conference. “Try helping to spread the understanding that will lead to the peacefulness of your own lives to those who will come after.” President Eisenhower said in his speech.
Opening scene shows injured soldiers in World War 1 being transferred to a field hospital. Next scene, in the United States, shows disabled and injured veterans of World War 1, and recovering soldier veterans, as they exit railroad hospital trains at a train station, and are met by medical staff of Fort Sheridan, in Lake County, Illinois. Women offer the soldiers donuts from baskets. Veterans get into waiting ambulances. Civil war cannon in a snowy field, and view of Fort Sheridan grounds, including the Fort Sheridan water tower and barracks complex. Disabled veterans get out of ambulance and enter hospital facility at Lake Sheridan. Nurses caring for injured patients in hospital ward. A patient in a bed draws a picture. Nurses massage patient's hands and arms. Therapists and nurses using various therapy machines for patients, including one that appears to connect wires to a patient's arm.
Injured and recovering U.S. Army soldiers practice and relearn fine motor skills as part of occupational therapy at hospital facilities of Fort Sheridan, in Lake County, Illinois. Patient writes at blackboard with chalk, relearning writing skills. Patients work at tables on various detailed and fine motor skills, as nurses assist. A soldier works with a soldering iron. Patients at telegraph machines and typewriters regain skills. Nurse instructor moves from one to another helping the soldiers with typing skills.
Excerpt from U.S. Deparment of Agriculture film "The Battle Is In our Hands." African American tenants pick cotton and process sorghum in fields. Farmers doing agricultural activities. Cattle at field. "Walls of Jericho" is sung by Paul Robeson in the background. (World War II period).
President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress in his "Four Freedoms" speech during the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, in Washington DC, United States. During his address, various war production worker and war materiel manufacturing images are also shown (before the entry of America into World War 2, but during lend-lease production): Tanks, airplanes and flying boat aircraft are shown. Workers at war production factories making artillery shells and munitions. Scenes at a manufacturing plant building bomber aircraft warplanes during World War 2. They appear to be B-25 Mitchell bombers. Workers work installing plexiglass nose cone gunner shield. They assemble various parts of airplanes. Scenes of biplane aircraft in formation and diving. Large, flat landing barge filled with American soldiers approaches a landing area.
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