A huge crowd gathered to pay their last respects to the American Unknown Soldier of World War 1 being buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. People gathered below the sarcophagus. A bugler plays and a cannon is fired to honor the Unknown Soldier. U.S. President Warren G. Harding leaves after the ceremony. The President walks past a large crowd of civilians.
A group of men comes out of the Old Post Chapel at Fort Myer followed by U.S. Army pallbearers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment, carrying the coffin of U.S. Army General Jacob L Devers. Members of the funeral party stand on either side of the path, as the pallbearers carry the flag draped casket out of the chapel and place it on a horse drawn caisson carriage.
Chaplains training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts during World War 2. Chaplains at an outdoor first aid class. Chaplains learn to wrap a bandage around an arm. They learn to prepare a plaster in case of a fractured arm. The Chaplains look at a map and confer as one of them looks through a sighting instrument. An African American Harvard chaplain holding a sighting instrument.
Preparations for the arrival of U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Kansas City, Missouri. Allied flags on poles. A military band seated in chairs. A man at a rostrum as he works on a microphone. A WAC (Women's Army Corps) band at the ceremony. (World War II period).
Vincent Jules Auriol, President of France, is ceremonially escorted into a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, where he is about to speak. He is followed by Vice President Alben W. Barkley and House Speaker, Sam Rayburn (who later take their places as presiding officers). The audience gives Auriol a standing ovation, with applause. continuing, as he ascends the podium. Barkley and Rayburn are seated behind him. President Auriol's remarks, as reported in the press (not heard in this clip, which has no sound) focus on the need to reject isolationism in the postwar world. Among other things, he reportedly tells the joint session of Congress the French people have learned from bitter experience that "isolation is death" and that "right without might is powerless." The Congress applauds him after his address.
240 Naval Reserve Mid-Shipmen fight it out for possession of a giant ball in Little Creek, Virginia. They rough it out with all out scramble on the playing field. It's a battle all the way. The words 'Recreational Division U.S. Naval Amphibious base Little Creek VA' are visible on the ball.
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