U.S. Marine amphibious assault training during World War II. jeep on the beach at Camp Pendleton. Dunes on the beach are marked in places with large signs of various kinds. landing craft partially ashore. One is adrift in the surf. A vehicle flying some sort of exercise flag goes down the beach and stops near a group of marines and some boxes in the surf. View from stern of a landing craft underway. Two Navy Grumman TBF aircraft buzz the beach. Landing craft maneuvering near the beach. A vehicle being lowered from attack transport ship into a landing craft. Several transport ships and a Navy dirigible are seen out from the beach. F6F aircraft buzz the transport from which film is shot. A landing craft approaching the beach. View forward from landing craft as a jeep with two occupants leaves and drives through the surf.
Operation Torch, Allied invasion of North Africa, during World War II. Free French troops aboard the USS Samuel Chase (APA-26) in waters off Algeria. The troops load into Higgins boats LCVP ( Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel). French troops climb over the rail of the transport as they get into the LCVP which then pulls away. The LCVP underway with the transport ship anchored in the background. Several LCVPs head towards a beach. Two U.S. Coast Guardsmen, in a boat flying a striped maroon and gold flag, seem to be monitoring and supervising the other boats. French troops unload at the beach.
A DUKW ( amphibious truck) under way in the Pacific Ocean. A Filipino man aboard the DUKW. He smiles as he drives the DUKW towards a beach. The DUKW approaches Manila Harbor in the Philippines. A U.S. soldier at the harbor. The DUKW comes ashore.
Damaged vessels at Manila Harbor in the Philippines towards the end of World War II. Damaged United States landing crafts loaded on to a wooden platform which floats in the sea, manned by U.S. Navy sailors. A tug in the foreground. Wreckage of a ship hoisted on the hook of a crane. Wreckage afloat in water.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt revives the NRA ( National Recovery Administration ) in Washington D.C., United States, during the Great Depression. The south facade of the White House with a fountain in the foreground. President Roosevelt at a desk. Congressmen and advisors outside a building as they gather to devise means to protect social gains achieved by the NRA. An official with a woman. Officials hoist a flag with the NRA insignia and a sign on the flag reads ' we do our part'.
X rays being taken in Paris, France. A man stands behind an X ray machine and a young woman or possibly a nurse operates a movie camera focused at the machine. X-ray films of different body parts. The man stands behind the machine as the girl uses the camera to take X rays. The man drinks from a cup and the moving Xray shows the passage of liquid into the man's body.
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