Precautions taken to prevent diseases in New York, United States. Strata charts show a decrease in the deaths due to small pox in New York city after the systematic vaccination that began in 1875.
French Army practices relocation of citizens in a civil defense exercise. Civilian participants seen climbing down from a truck. French military trucks equipped with long seats practice carrying citizens from Parts of Paris to safe locations, in a training exercise. Participants look at a large map posted at a park, and get instructions from French soldiers. The trucks are seen, filled with exercise participants, traveling about in the city, as military police direct the traffic.The trucks display signs that tell about the Army serving the country and helping to defend the citizens in case of aggression.
A U.S. Strategic Air Command (SAC) B-36 towed by a tug on an airfield. A crew member walks towards nose gear section of B-36. B-36 in flight and formations of B-3s. Animated map shows enemy territories across the world, and B-36s dropping bombs, wiping out enemy cities. Formation of four B-36 aircraft over clouds.
Russian attacks on Warsaw and Poznan in World War II. Soviet army using tanks, heavy artillery, machine guns and grenades advance forward. Marshal Zhukov and Marshal Rosokofskey inspecting Russian cossacks advancing on horses. A soldier is shot by a sniper while running through street intersection. A Russian machine gunner firing a Soviet DP-28 light machine gun shoots at building to take out a sniper's nest. Dead bodies of German snipers. Views of ruined city of Warsaw and Poznan. Concentration camp victims, including a woman who has been blinded in one eye. Interior of a Nazi concentration camp room loaded with torture equipment, including a guillotine. Piles of bodies of persons mass executed during German retreat. Women crying over bodies in coffins. A fat Nazi commander and his fellow officers.Soviet soldiers. Scenes of ruined Warsaw include a sign that reads, 'Adolf Hitler Platz.' A wrecked trolley with signs on it that read, ''Wierzeno' and 'Ein u. Ausstieg nur fur Deutsche' which translates to English as, 'On and off exit points only for Germans' The ruined home of Frederic Chopin in Warsaw. The Polish flag flying again after battle.
A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. A well dressed man, with a suitcase in hand, walking on a desolated road. A car passes. Man reaches railway station, crosses railway tracks. A moving train is seen. Interior of train, man seated with other passengers. A uniformed ticket checker comes and checks man's ticket along with others. A busy city street is shown. Man approaches a machinist's shop named 'George Durand Machinist'. (World War II period).
Drought affected areas of the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl in the U.S. Dry, parched land. Shepherds with their sheep. A wind mill at a farm. Sheep ranchers draw water. A rancher with barrels of water in a cart. He pours water into a trough for the sheep. Sheep drink water from the trough. Birds on parched ground. A farmer couple haul water from distant places in a horse cart. They pour water from barrels into a tub. Cows drink water. Ranchers on horses with a herd of cattle on dry land. The herd and cars pass through the town. Ranchers herd the cattle into rail cars to be transported to greener pastures. The train begins its journey. 'Trail City, Post Office' sign on a building. A notice by the Township Board regarding the use of water from the relief well. Men, women and children line up and draw water from the relief well. The water carrier or delivery man goes door to door to distribute water. He takes water in a bucket from a carriage and pours in into a barrel outside a house. Men dig a deep well using equipment and machinery in search of water. A horse pulls to rotate the digging equipment.
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