People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. People hold flags and banners. Policeman stops them from going further. A man talks to a woman who is going to march and writes something. People march with band and flags. Buildings in the background. People pass by on street in front of Capitol building. A statue in front of the building.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. Decorated float on the field. Cartoon characters dummies on the float. Men stand on the field. A policeman stands. Girls parade with flags. Man and children pass by on field on a horse-cart. Men dressed in different costumes march on the field. Capitol building in the background. Statue of Liberty on a decorated float. Other people on the decorated float. Girls march with band.
Signs on a board at beachhead in France. "Water point", "Collection and clearing station" indicated by the signs. United States military policemen directs vehicular traffic on the beach. Heavy traffic on the beachhead. United States soldiers carrying full field packs walk on the field.
American soldiers and people walk on a ground towards the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. Trees and buildings in the background. Military policemen on guard at the Palace grounds. A group of American officers walk towards the Palace. They talk to the guards. Officers told that they are not permitted to go further. This is the off limit to all allied troops. (World War II period).
Nihonbashi Firehouse in Kabutocho-Town, Nihonbashi-ward (current-day Chuo-ward), City of Tokyo, Japan. Fire trucks leave the firehouse. Fire trucks pass a busy intersection near Nihonbashi-Bridge on the Ginza Street in the Nihonbashi district. Traffic policeman on the street controls the traffic. He maneuvers the fire truck through the traffic. Buildings along the street. People gather on the street in front of the building.
U.S. Navy World War 2 training film about artillery in landing operations. Opening scene shows a marine reading artillery settings aloud. Then gunners load their 105mm howitzer and fire it. Next scenes show more howitzers in a field also firing. View of a control tent, where marines wearing headsets communicate with the howitzer batteries. The batteries receive the instruction: "CSMO" (Close Station March Order). Firing ceases and gun crews police up their positions and board jeeps to their command post. One the way, one marine sitting in the back of an MZ jeep, talks on a TCS radio. At the Command Post, several battery leaders meet over a planning table where they receive orders for an amphibious exercise. Amphibious vehicles (DUKWs) arrive, equipped with A-frames. Film shows how the A-frame is set up and employed to raise a howitzer. Then another DUKW backs under the suspended field piece which is lowered into its cargo space. Other guns and DUKWs arrive to repeat the process. Gunners are shown spreading a tarpaulin and placing it on their howitzer, in the DUKW, as extra protection against water. Other DUKWs arrive with the battery's howitzers and marines rig tarps on them as well.
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