The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees undergo diving training. An instructor explains how to work with a helmet. One of the trainee dons a diving helmet and goes into water. The trainees learn to repair the motor of a boat. They learn sign language. An officer reviews the trainees and sailors standing in a line.
The Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Training Center at Melville in Rhode Island, United States. Trainees undergo squadron maneuvers. A number of Patrol Torpedo Boats underway. One of them gives flag signals. A trainee on a wheel. The trainees fire at objects as a part of their training. Officers read their marks from a paper on a board. Two trainees use a broom as their rifles and practice target shooting. (World War II period).
Hollywood actor Joe E. Brown gives a speech appealing for blood donations in Washington DC, United States. Brown seated at table. He makes a speech and makes an appeal to the nation to donate blood for the soldiers fighting in the Korean War. He makes the appeal on behalf of the armed services.
Strike bound factories and labor disputes in the United States. Views from bridge overlooking rail yards.Armed sentries patrolling the area. Soldiers guard the factories from roof tops. The soldiers sit in a factory site with guns. They sit on roofs with rifles. Workers in sit down strikes on the ground. A soldier aims from a roof. People stand on roads. Soldiers man machine guns on the city streets. U.S. Army troops raid the offices of the Lithuanian Communist newspaper,"Laisve" confiscate their papers and shut them down.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rally in Washington DC. A crowd gathers on a road to watch over 30,000 KKK members marching and promoting their theme "100% Americanism." The U.S. Capitol in the background. Members of the KKK group walk on the street with the flags of the United States. Thousands of hooded but unmasked Ku Klux Klan members fill Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, stretching back to the U.S. Capitol building.
U.S. 105th Field Artillery troops, at Etraye in France, celebrate the armistice ending hostilities in World War I. A large American flag flies at their camp. The troops celebrate as they throw their caps high and shake hands with each other. Troops carry the United States flag and celebrate.
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