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U.S. Navy Admiral Chester Nimitz gives medals of valor to naval officers who participated in Battle of Midway. MCU of U.S. Navy members smiling and shaking hands. The next newsreel covers an Army-Navy benefit horse race at the Belmont Park in New York. Thirty-thousand people watch, including U.S. Army Lieutenant General Hugh Drum and Admiral Adolphus Andrews. In the next newsreel, U.S. Army nurses who were stationed in the Philippines are honored as Eleanor Roosevelt stands beside them. The crowd claps as each nurse is granted her medal of valor.