The defending champion of baseball's American League, the Detroit Tigers, practice at spring training in Lakeland Florida, March 1941. Players warm up throwing arms, with pitchers Bobo Newsom (#12) and Schoolboy Rowe (#14) in foreground. Close up of manager Del Baker talking. Player slides into sliding pit. Shots of pitcher Tommy Bridges (#10) warming up; outfielder Barney McCosky (#21) hitting a ball and running to first base; Hall of Fame second baseman Charlie Gehringer (#2), hitting a ball and running to first;, Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg (#5) posing for the camera with bat; pitcher Newsom warming up; and Greenberg hitting a ball and running to first.
A formation of "Cowgirls" in costume twirl lassos on the infield of a ball park in San Antonio, Texas, as members of the St. Louis Browns baseball team watch from the baseline. The team members try their hand at twirling the lassos. Players try to spin rope. A Player lifts up a cowgirl, who twirls a lasso over both of them. Pitcher, Sid Jakuchi, wearing a cowboy hat throws a baseball at the camera. A bevy of cowgirls throw baseballs, as well. Club owner, Donald Barnes, is seen in several scenes, wearing a sport jacket and open collar shirt. Players pose and warm up. They practice fielding and batting. Spectators fill the grandstand. Player number 4, Johnny Berardino, wearing a cowboy hat, bats a ball and then mounts a horse to "run" the bases.
Clip regarding excavation of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) combat operation center (COC) at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, United States. View of the NORAD Combat Operations Center (COC) at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Spring, Colorado. Trees in the foreground. View of an atomic bomb or nuclear blast. Mushroom cloud rising after blast. Next scene show ground breaking ceremony for the new NORAD COC. Spectators seated. View of mountain. Flags flutter in wind from flagpole. Artwork depicts passageways and three level building in hardsite. General Laurence S Kuter,NORAD Commander in Chief and Lieutenant General Robert M Lee,ADC Commander presses a button and activates charge on side of the mountain to begin excavation.
Operation Skywatch in the United States. The Radar dome. Enlisted men leave through door in base. Enlisted men pass dining hall. The cook slices roast beef. The cook opens the oven door and draws out pan of pies. The cook places the pan on a serving table. He places the piece of pie on enlisted man's tray. Food is served in tray. Men eat in dining hall. A mascot dog walks on snow. The cook feeds a piece of meat to the dog.
Army Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) use a rail-mounted conveyer-type bucket dredge to deepen a channel for Allied ships on the Penfeld River at Brest, France, during World War 1. In the background, the Kerguillo mansion in the suburb Bohars, can be seen. The dreged spoils are being emptied into a string of open rail cars. Men work around the base of the dredge, loosening soil with long poles. Army engineers, including African American soldiers of the U.S. Army 501st Engineers work with French civilians to build wharfs on the Penfeld River. They stand with a rail car of concrete at the job site, and manually remove it when emptied. Construction supplies are piled up at the port, where 501st Engineer members are seen with other U.S. soldiers and French soldiers. View from rail car (not seen) moving along track, away from the port. A locomotive is seen with "USA" painted on its side,next to a newly constructed rail platform. A French workman carrying a large can walks next to the tracks. A railroad crane stands on a siding. Workmen build a station on the platform. (One raises his arms out wide for the camera.) An open rail car sits by the platform. A soldier from the 501st crosses the track near a rail car filled with wooden ties. View of U.S. troops running from work on a train of rail cars, as they respond to noon mess call. African American soldiers of the 501st Engineers getting lunch and eating at an outdoor mess. Four of them tap dance for the camera, as their comrades watch and clap.
French officers and officials gather in front of the French War Memorial in Floral Clock Park, Algeria,North Africa during World War II. Wreaths are seen placed at base of memorial. Free French Generals Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud salute the guards holding French flags. Colonial soldiers salute with swords. General De Gaulle relights the Eternal flame. Large crowd gathered at the street square. US, British and Free French flags flutter in wind from flagpoles. Speakers stand is decorated with Crosses of Lorraine and Large Letters: "R V F." General De Gaulle addresses gathering. General de Gaulle and General Giraud review military units on Parade. Military band plays. A small contingent of U.S. forces marches. carrying the Stars and Stripes. French colonial units march and a contingent of cavalry ride with weapons pointed skyward. Women in uniform march.French sailors parade.
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