U.S. Federal provisions for the education of the North American Indians in the United States during the Great Depression era. Native American Indian students come out of Chemawa Indian School boarding school in Oregon. An elementary school in Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Indian children on the grounds of Shiprock Reservation in New Mexico. Animated map depicts Indian schools in the United States. Cloth lines on the grounds of a school. A man walks out of a government school building.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on radio equipment in the United States. The exterior of a U.S. Army Signal Corps building with "Squier laboratory" written outside the building. The interior of the laboratory. Engineers conducting experiments and working on various equipment for communications, including Radar, Color Radio Telephoto, and single sideband transmission for long haul radio communication. A machine that appears to be spinning and heating hot glass. An engineer operating a machine beneath a sign that says "Thermionic Shake Tests." An engineer tests various signal lights. Signal Corps men observing a radio tower. Instructors teach and demonstrate various kinds of radio relay equipment to other Signal Corps personnel. A large board reads "Multiplex terminating." An officer explains a diagram to the Signal Corps personnel. Soldiers examine disassembled radios. Demonstration of a map being transmitted to a soldier in the field via facsimile machine. Close views of a spinning drum on the facsimile machine and the map visible on it. A dramatized shot of a B-17 bomber aircraft in flight. The pilot in the cockpit of the aircraft. The pilot looks at the signals transmitted through the radar. The aircraft navigates with the radar in bad weather. A map locates Boston, Lynn, Nantasket and Quincy and it is compared to the radar image of the same region.
Three large reproductions of the Medal of Honor. The real medals. Signs underneath indicates branch of service. The signs read: 'Medal of Honor United States Army', 'Medal of Honor United States Navy Marine Corps Coast Guard' and 'Medal of Honor United States Air Force'.
A U.S. Army training film depicts operations and uses of tanks during World War II. Training: A U.S. M4 Sherman medium tank advances in a field in the United States Enemy fire at the tank. Directions for tank combat including firing directions and alertness requirements. A man seated inside the tank firing at enemy positions. The tank takes the advantage of cover. Smoke rises due to the firing. Machine guns and other ammunition should be used. The tank changes its positions as soon as the enemy locates it. The tank continues firing at the enemy positions.
A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) during World War 2 in the United States. Oveta Culp Hobby takes the oath as the Director of the WAAC. U.S. Army General George Marshall standing nearby. The members of the WAAC march. Officers review the parade. Women in various jobs in the United States. Women enter a WAAC recruiting office. The women lined up at the office. They talk to a receptionist. They fill out applications, take physical examinations and then take an oath of service.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara leaves the office in the United States. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, Secretary McNamara and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Henry Nitze on a review stand. U.S. Army General Earle Gilmore Wheeler speaks into a microphone. President Johnson speaks after General Wheeler. The President speaking into the microphone. Secretary McNamara stands behind the President. The President ends the speech. People applaud.
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