U.S. Navy ship USS Upshur in Beirut, Lebanon during the Lebanon Crisis. A U.S. Navy officer and a few sailors at a dock. The sailors securing the lines of a ship. The secured lines of ship. An officer standing beside a rail at the stern of USS Upshur. The U.S. flag at the stern of the ship. The sailors pulling the lines. 'USNS Upshur' written on the side of the ship bow. The officer beside the rail on the ship. An African American soldier looking through a porthole of the ship. The officer beside a car on the dock.
U.S. Marines in Beirut, Lebanon. Several U.S. Marines and army jeeps at a dock. U.S. Navy command ship USS Taconic (AGC-17) and cargo ship USNS Col. William J.O' Brien (T-AK-246) anchored in the background. Army tanks parked in a line on the dock. A Marine at guard beside the tanks. A Marine cleaning a .45 Colt gun. Two Marines seated on a platform behind a tank. The Marines seated in front of a few jeeps and working at an ANGR 9 (Army/Navy Ground Radio) and a field generator.
The Normandy Landings on D-Day in France during World War II. A hole on a U.S. Navy LCI (Landing Craft Infantry) on the Normandy beachhead. Two other holes on the LCI. U.S. Coast Guard men beside the LCI. 'US 92' written on the back of the LCI. The men inspecting the LCI. Wrecked parts in view.
Scientists determine nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2. Conscripts receive medical examination by an army doctor before going into the U.S. Army. The new recruits holding documents waiting in a queue for their turn to be weighed on a scale. An officer seated at a table. Two military draftees talking. Members of a U.S. Army Combat Service Support Branch, the Quartermaster Corps, cutting meat for preparation. A table set for soldiers with tea cups arranged and fruits in the center. The soldiers seated at tables and having food. Quartermaster Corps serving the soldiers. Scientists in a laboratory studying food that will impart energy, strength, and improved performance to the soldiers. A soldier seated at a table and a member of the Quartermaster Corps measuring out rice into a bowl that a soldier would have to have to provide the same nutrition as in his military rations. Dr. Ansel Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota, seated at a table and vitamins kept on the table for the soldiers. Narrator mentions that the German military supposedly has a super man vitamin pill. Doctor dispenses vitamins from a box. Doctor measures the strength of a soldier who has been taking vitamins. Doctor gives a soldier more vitamin pills. Two seated soldiers open tins of vitamin pills. Soldiers sleeping in a room maintained at a certain high temperature during an experiment to determine what foods are best for various climates. Soldiers carrying rifles walking on a treadmill. The amount of perspiration is measured.
Nutritious packaged food is formulated and packaged for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2, in the United States. Workers at soybean processing plants. View of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, a chemist and soy expert, working in a laboratory (Dr. Julian was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry). Two workers carry soy flour in sacks and put the flour into processors. Wheat flour and eggs are added. Dough is kneaded in the processor. Soybean biscuits coming out of the processor in strips. Women workers at a chewing gum factory, modified for making K ration packets, stand on the assembly line and pack the K-rations. An army officer beside the workers. The workers, at an assembly line, put a tin of meat, soy biscuits, a concentrated chocolate or a fruit bar, lemon powder, cigarettes and chewing gum in individual containers. The containers are made water and air tight, and a scientist tests some of the kits for quality of packaging. U.S. Army soldiers move in a column on an airfield and get into an aircraft. Views of U.S. Army soldiers in different settings, preparing and eating food: A group of soldiers under a tarp in the jungle preparing food. Two soldiers seated inside a snow igloo eating food. A group of soldiers seated on a tank in the desert, eating food. Group of soldiers having food seated at tables in a dining hall or mess area.
U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft bombard Japanese positions in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A map of the area. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight over islands in the Pacific. The aircraft fly in formation. A Japanese cruiser underway at sea. The cruiser being bombed. A gun sight aiming point view of the cruiser being strafed. Explosions occur at sea. Enemy barges being attacked by the aircraft. Smoke rises at sea. U.S. aircraft bomb Munda Airfield. Smoke rises from the shoreline of the Munda island. Bombs being released over Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands. Bombs impact and columns of smoke rise.
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