Animated map assembles sections of the United States of America reflecting various kinds of inhabitants. A woman of Native American Indian origins weaves a straw hat as a young boy plays nearby. Sign outside a building identifying the "Slovak Political Benefial Assn." Other signs on seen on different buildings include: "Polish Army Veterans Association of America;" "Ukrainian American Youth Association;" and "Germantown Hospital." A brass plate on a building reading: "English-Speaking Union." Asian-American school girls, and a Japanese-American man with a boy. View of a wood carving in ancient African style. A street scene showing many Hispanic Americans, and commercial signs in Spanish. A group of new American citizens reciting oath at a naturalization ceremony, each receiving a small American flag. Some appear to be of Asian or South Asian descent, including possibly Vietnamese. Animated map shown again, indicating the geographical distribution of Americans in the U.S. First it shows areas where citizens live near water, either the oceans, Gulf of Mexico, or the Great Lakes. Montage of urban scenes showing some of the cities where most Americans live. The Massachusetts State House in Boston. New York City street scene with the Empire State Building in background. City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Capitol in Washington, DC
Posters in Japanese and Spanish, illustrating efforts by U.S. Bureau of the Census, to reach all Americans. Such a non-English sign in a barbershop window. Census enumerators conversing in a District Field Office. A woman checking responses against a master list of residents. Staff members discuss individual cases. Newspaper headlines reporting preliminary census results for their respective localities. Census staff making corrections after preliminary results are disclosed. A forklift moving a stack of census documents at the central processing office in Jeffersonville, Indiana. View inside warehouse at Jeffersonville, containing 75 carloads of census questionnaires stacked in bins. Staff in the Central Processing office using special machinery to microfilm the paper forms. View of census workers microfilming in near darkness. Woman at Census Headquarters, with machine called "Fosdic" standing for Film Optical Sensing Device for Imput to Computer. The microfilm is seen being fed into a reader that converts citizens marks on questionnaires into computer-storable (digital) form. View of microfiche census record containing citizens marks. Mailman delivering letters of inquiry to the Census Bureau. census worker looking up information in response to inquiry.
Footage taken from the ground as paratroopers of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment jump from C-47 aircraft over Japanese-held Philippine island fortress of Corregidor, in World War 2. White smoke issues from the ground, providing a drop target for C-47 transport aircraft approaching in trail formation. The first wave of paratroopers are seen jumping, with chutes opening. But they appear to be dropping high hill, making their relative height over the ground very small and leaving little chute opening time (even though the aircraft are maintaining a constant preplanned altitude during the run). A U.S. soldier is seen walking past the camera. Then parachutes are seen descending and dotting the landscape. Ruins of fortress buildings are in the background. C-47s continue flying in background. View from th ground of paratroopers descending directly overhead and landing in dangerously uneven rocky terrain. Two trooper bend over another who has been injured during the drop. Their chutes are still billowing. Closeup of an injured trooper being assisted by another. Troopers spilling chutes, gathering their gear and beginning to assemble. More C-47s flying overhead and more chutes seen descending. Some are dark colored. A trooper hitting hard on rocky ground. Several troopers sitting on the ground as one pulls on the risers of a chute to spill the air.
U.S. 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment soldiers advance for the invasion of Corregidor in the Philippine Islands during World War II. A crew fires a 37mm anti tank gun from inside a building through a window of a building in Ermita district of Manila. An M-4 tank advances. Soldiers take position and fire artillery. Smoke in the background. The soldiers use a flame thrower on a building housing the Japanese.
Fire fighting aboard a U.S. Landing Ship Tank (LST) in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War 2. Crewmen load handy-billies, axes & other fire fighting equipment from ATL-114 to LC(FF)-370. LST-1170 on fire due to a Japanese kamikaze suicide attack. Many small boats surrounding the LST try to douse the fire using fire hoses. Men pass cans of foamite up towards fire fighting foamite generator. On the bridge of the LC (FF) an officer directs the fire fighting. A hose with a fog nozzle attached to it is passed across to assist fire fighting crew. Foam generator nozzle pours foam down a ventilator. Fire damage on the boat deck of the LST.
U.S. 1st Marine Division with the Okinawans in Okinawa, Japan during the Battle of Okinawa of World War II. A U.S. Marine inspects ruins near Gushikawa. Natives including men, women and children. A U.S. marine smokes with an Okinawan civilian citizen. Young boy shows a Japanese military hat insignia that he is wearing. A Military Police personnel carries a balancing pole holding two buckets on his shoulders. The children carry balancing poles with two buckets. Views of the children.
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