Operation Skywatch in the United States. The Radar dome. Enlisted men leave through door in base. Enlisted men pass dining hall. The cook slices roast beef. The cook opens the oven door and draws out pan of pies. The cook places the pan on a serving table. He places the piece of pie on enlisted man's tray. Food is served in tray. Men eat in dining hall. A mascot dog walks on snow. The cook feeds a piece of meat to the dog.
Army Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) use a rail-mounted conveyer-type bucket dredge to deepen a channel for Allied ships on the Penfeld River at Brest, France, during World War 1. In the background, the Kerguillo mansion in the suburb Bohars, can be seen. The dreged spoils are being emptied into a string of open rail cars. Men work around the base of the dredge, loosening soil with long poles. Army engineers, including African American soldiers of the U.S. Army 501st Engineers work with French civilians to build wharfs on the Penfeld River. They stand with a rail car of concrete at the job site, and manually remove it when emptied. Construction supplies are piled up at the port, where 501st Engineer members are seen with other U.S. soldiers and French soldiers. View from rail car (not seen) moving along track, away from the port. A locomotive is seen with "USA" painted on its side,next to a newly constructed rail platform. A French workman carrying a large can walks next to the tracks. A railroad crane stands on a siding. Workmen build a station on the platform. (One raises his arms out wide for the camera.) An open rail car sits by the platform. A soldier from the 501st crosses the track near a rail car filled with wooden ties. View of U.S. troops running from work on a train of rail cars, as they respond to noon mess call. African American soldiers of the 501st Engineers getting lunch and eating at an outdoor mess. Four of them tap dance for the camera, as their comrades watch and clap.
French officers and officials gather in front of the French War Memorial in Floral Clock Park, Algeria,North Africa during World War II. Wreaths are seen placed at base of memorial. Free French Generals Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Honore Giraud salute the guards holding French flags. Colonial soldiers salute with swords. General De Gaulle relights the Eternal flame. Large crowd gathered at the street square. US, British and Free French flags flutter in wind from flagpoles. Speakers stand is decorated with Crosses of Lorraine and Large Letters: "R V F." General De Gaulle addresses gathering. General de Gaulle and General Giraud review military units on Parade. Military band plays. A small contingent of U.S. forces marches. carrying the Stars and Stripes. French colonial units march and a contingent of cavalry ride with weapons pointed skyward. Women in uniform march.French sailors parade.
Camera's eye overview of Bordeaux, France during World War 1. Buildings, Houses, and churches are seen. Spires of the Cathedral of St. Andre. Large ocean-going sailing vessels with sails furled, in the harbor. Small steam powered ferry boat. Rooftop view of port, with cranes at dock. Crates are loaded into cargo slings and hoisted ashore to supply American Army Base Section Number 2. Railroad cars are loaded on the docks. A railroad train moves slowly along the dock. Warehouses buildings in the background.
View from above, of railroads and rail yards in vicinity of the seaport of Bordeaux, France during World War I. Locomotive moving short train of war materiel for American base Section Number 2, past a large hill of cut logs. Numerous railroad tracks and roads around them. Materials piled up in various places throughout the area. Crane moving cargo. Smoke rising from self-propelled steam railroad crane on railroad track. Trains loaded with cargo on railroad tracks in the port, with large ships tied up at dock next to tracks. Many men at work throughout the port. Large cranes on rails, moving cargo between ships and docks. Teams of African American soldiers, some with wheel barrows, building new rail spurs in the port. An American soldier walking along the rails in midst of workers. Train station under construction. Moveable derrick on rails with smoke stack on top. Several yard workers run across tracks.
African American stevedores of U.S. Army Service Battalion, World War 1, transfer military cargo from ships to railroad cars, at seaport, in Bordeaux, France, supplying Base Section Number 2. They move cartons, piled up on pier, to trolleys. U.S. Army officer steps forward to organize work, and another soldier starts to help, tossing cartons to stevedores. Freighter in the background. Stevedore rides past on motorized tractor. Others stand near stack of iron bars, as dock crane lowers cargo net filled with cartons. Stevedores release cargo cartons from crane sling. African American U.S. Army stevedores pose for the camera. Men haul wheel cart and trailer. Crane loads iron bar stack aboard railroad car, as U.S. Army supervisor personally shifts its direction, as it descends, to allow it to fit.
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