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Officers Franklin Roosevelt Jr. and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., speak and shake hands. Actor Clark Gable is sworn into the U.S. Army Airforce. Movie stars promote war bonds as crowds of people watch at a parade on Pennsylvania Ave in Washingon D.C.. Actors Bing Crosby and Jimmy Cagney, and comedians William Abbot and Lou Costello, are seen riding in cars. A crowd of people line up to purchase war bonds from celebrities Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Jimmy Cagney, Ann Rutherford, Hedy Lamarr, and Greer Garson at the Treasury Building steps. In the next newsreel, U.S. army men practice riding motorcycles. Various soldiers fall off their motorcycles over bumps and rough terrain.