A U.S. Navy training film "Submarine Escape" depicts rescue precautions in emergency for men if a submarine sinks. A sunken submarine in the United States. Operation officers check an operation board that the reporting time of the submarine has passed out. A man makes a radio call to the submarine but it does not answer. A squadron officer leaves the office of communication and contacts with an officer of Ships and Shore Station for aid. Two aircraft and an airship in flight to find the submarine and to rescue its crewmen. A ship at sea. Two methods of rescue to be followed in emergency: individual (S.E.A.) and collective (Rescue Chamber). Crewmen in the submarine as it goes down. They smoke. A man on a phone receives no answer. A man checks condition. Two men stand near a compartment. Floating debris in the sea. Men in a forward compartment to talk over the problems that the ship is encountering. Important steps to be followed in an emergency written on a board. Men follow the steps. A man gives a pack of absorbent powder. A man spreads a mattress cover on a lower bunk. He puts on rubber gloves. He pours the powder and spreads it in thin layer. Instructions are read by a man. Emergency drinking water, fruit juices and oxygen for safety. The man waits. Men rest. The men prepare for escape collectively. They wear the rescue gear. Men prepare for escape individually. A man wearing a rescue gear signals by gesturing. The men work with rescue gear and equipment.
The ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield) runs aground off West Palm Beach in Florida, United States. Scenes from January 12,1941: People at a beach. USS Wakefield (Manhattan) in the background. During her third voyage to California the ship runs aground off West Palm Beach, Florida. A sign on the ship: 'Manhattan United States Lines'. Coast Guard personnel save the passengers of the ship.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police in the United States during World War 2. Workers walk in lines and are being checked by Military Police (MPs) as they enter a port. An MP monitors loading of cargo at the port. An MP standing and traffic in the background.
Activities of the U.S. Army Military Police in the United States during various disasters. Firefighters at a major conflagration. MPs in a military ambulance flying a red cross flag, rushing toward the site. Smoke seen rising in the background. A sign on a building: 'US Army Disaster Relief Headquarters'. An MP stands at the entrance and directs people seeking help. Scenes from the 1951 Kansas River Flood, with low aerial view of the Frisco (St. Louis–San Francisco) Railway 19th Street Yards, Kansas City, Missouri, during the Great Flood of 1951. Flood waters in the industrial area, cutting off trains and covering factories. A residential area inundated by flood waters. Military Police and local police in a boat patrolling the flooded area. Military Police in an amphibious jeep evacuating a boy and his dog from the flooded area. MPs with the boy and his dog driving out of the flooded area.
An Eagle Boat at a dock in the United States. Views of the Eagle Boat with men standing on the deck. The U.S. flag on the boat.
On March 15, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of the Congress to urge the passage of new voting rights legislation in the United States. Members of the Congress applaud. President Johnson addresses that government will treat every citizen equal. Every American will be given equal opportunity and every American citizen must have an equal right to vote in the Voting Rights Act.
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