Various different Ford Model-T cars being driven in the U.S. A Model-T driven on muddy, deeply rutted country road in United States. A Ford Model-T car moves through high grass. Ford Model-T parked beside a stone gate of Tioga Pass in California. The Model-T seen on a quieter city street, with a busier city street in the background. The Ford Model-T drives on a mountain road and passes through a deep cut in mountain with high cliffs on either side.
The United States Secretary of War, Newton D Baker during the second draft ceremony for World War I. His eyes are covered with a blindfold and he draws draft numbers from a bowl. The drawn draft number is read. General Enoch H. Crowder oversees the ceremony. A large number of draftees -- men dressed in suits and hats -- passes along a roadside. Men disembark a railroad train at a military training facility. Men march along tracks carrying the U.S. flags in hands. New recruits, including men and a few women practice marching in formation, still wearing civilian clothes.
A U.S. Army Air forces Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk airplane taxis and takes off from an airfield in the United States, that appears to have some construction work taking place on it (dump truck in background) during World War 2. The P-40's landing gear takes a long time to retract after takeoff, with the right gear lingering down, well after the left has retracted. Aloft, the P-40 maneuvers around a slow-moving light aircraft camera plane, joining up near it and flying rapidly away, and then diving toward it.
USS Akron dirigible airship in flight over the west coast of the United States. The control tower of USS Akron. U.S. Army soldiers at the controls of the dirigible. An officer stands nearby. Mail bags stacked aboard the dirigible. A cook roasts chicken in the galley. Stove and cooking utensils. Men peel onions and potatoes. Men seated at a table eat food.
People leave their homes in the Great Plains, United States. A tower and damaged houses in the Great Plains due to dust storm "dust bowl" conditions during the Great Depression. A girl walks near a house. People leave their homes with their belongings, loading them into a trailer towed by their car. They migrate west. Views of deserts. Vehicles driven on a road. People live in tent communities during westward migration in the United States. Vehicles arrive near a tent. Men sitting idle. Women unload carts. Two men seated outside the tent. Farm machinery and equipment on the ground. Useless farms and barren trees in the plains.
Treatment for combat exhaustion cases among U.S. soldiers following combat in World War II. U.S. officers talk about operation plan of a hospital and speak about three sections including admission, treatment and rehabilitation. A patient undergoes a physical examination. A dental survey and necessary laboratory studies. Doctors seated at table to perform an intelligence tests and mental examination. Psychiatric and other personality tests and intelligence test are administered including Rorschach test and Kohs block design test. The doctors check the psychiatric and physical report of the patient by looking at an X-ray. Patients receive sleep therapy: A nurse and an army doctor give narcosis therapy (continuous sleep treatment), by administering barbituates that keep a patient asleep for 18-20 hours per day for several days. Insulin is used on "loss of weight" cases: Combat exhausted soldiers lying on beds and receiving insulin before breakfast by nurses to stimulate their appetite. A nurse checks the weight of a patient during treatment. A nurse checks the diet which will be given to the patients in a kitchen. A patient receives an electric shock therapy treatment. A doctor injects a medicine into a patient. The patients go through physical exercises to maintain physical fitness. The patients are reeducated to know the causes of diseases. (Note: Clips deals with treatment for Combat Exhaustion, also later termed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.)
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