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Work and achievements of Harry S. Truman during his first Presidential term in the United States
President Harry S. Truman marches with veteran soldiers of U.S. Army Company D (129th Field Artillery) with whom he served as an officer in World War 1. Wide view of men lined up on White House lawn. Disabled veteran soldiers of World War 2 greet the President. Narrator discusses problem of lack of housing for veterans and their families after World War 2. Aerial view of trailer homes or recreational vehicle (RV) camper units lined up in open space, serving as temporary housing for veterans. Truman sitting at desk while he signs the Veterans Emergency Housing Act of 1946. Views of long lines of new homes being built, and construction workers hammering to build frames of new houses in the United States. During a time of price inflation, scene shows grocer changing price signs on eggs, meats, cheeses to show increasing prices. Truman ata work in his office reviewing paperwork at his desk. Narrator mentions Taft Hartley Labor Act that Truman vetoed. View of car on road with sign on side that reads, "Veto Hartley Taft Slave Labor Bill." President Truman reading at his desk. Close up view of cover page of report entitled "To Secure These Rights. The Report of The President's Committee on Civil Rights. View of Episcopal church Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill seated at a desk. Bishop Sherrill is talking to another man. Narrator states that Truman acted on a civil rights program recommended by Bishop Sherrill, head of the Civil Rights Commission. Car pulling up to portico of White House and view of President Truman shaking hands with visiting President of Mexico, Miguel Alemán. President Truman being presented a sacred Torah by Israeli President Weizmann. Discusses foreign policy matters with Secretary of State George Marshall and comes up with Truman doctrine, Marshall plan and European recovery program. View of Truman signing Economic Cooperation Act of 1948 on April 3, 1948 (of which the Marshall Plan was a part).
Allied victories over Nazis in European Theater in 1944 and 1945 during World War 2
Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.
The United States demobilizes following World War II
Opening illustrated slate shows reduction of Amercan Armed forces personnel from more than 12 million in 1945 to only a little over 1 and a half million in 1947. U.S. Navy submarines are seen docked in storage. Men work spraying protective coatings over guns on Navy ships as they are placed in storage in the "Mothball Fleet." A lone sailor is seen on the deck of a ship with vast number of mothballed Navy destroyers in the background. A B-24 Liberator bomber being dismantled and a B-17 parked with engines removed, seen through stack of propellers in foreground. Airman sets a demolition charge. Views of several bomber aircraft being blown up as junk. Stacks of junked and scrapped American war materiel rusting. View inside a mill where molten metal is being processed (ostensibly recycled from junked war materiel). Narrator speaks of beating guns into plow shares. Several views of molten metal being poured into and from ladles. Views inside post-war factories returning to peace-time production, where industrial heavy equipment, railroad wheels, kitchen appliances, home appliances, rubber tires, and new 1946 Ford automobiles are assembled (looking exactly like the 1942 models).
American Navy men and soldiers in Aleutian Island, United States
Supplies and equipment on a beach in Aleutian Island, United States. Two American Navy men use field phone in a dugout emplacement on the beach. Navy men and soldiers roast hot dogs over fire on the beach. Soldiers unload supplies from Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel onto tractor trailer and it moves inland. Navy men and soldiers unload supplies and pile them up. (World War II period).
Aftermath of Japanese air attacks on Dutch Harbor, Unalaska Island, Aleutian Islands, in World War II
The aftermath of the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor, June 3 & 4 1942, during World War 2. Scenes include the bombed ship, S.S. Northwestern, which was being used as housing for construction crews. The docked steamer was damaged by bombs from "Val" dive bombers launched by the Japanese aircraft carrier "Junyo". Smoke rises from an oil tank as it burns. Bombed & wrecked trucks at the island. Also shown are bomb damage and fires at Fort Mears, Dutch Harbor.
Soldiers of 2nd French Morocon Division in Italy during World War 2
Soldiers of 435th anti aircraft Battery attached to 2nd French Morocon division use a culvert under a road as a dugout in Italy. 40 mm anti aircraft gun and a culvert with two soldiers in the foreground. Inside the culvert a soldier reads a newspaper and another one smokes a cigar outside the culvert. French expeditionary forces receive PX ration to the west of Scapoli.
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