Title: "Americans! Your Country Has Suffered a Major Disaster. The American Red Cross Serves Suffering and Desperate Need. The American Red Cross Needs Your Help. Have You Done Your Bit?" superimposed over VS Red Cross helping disaster victims / CU Red Cross sign with "Join Now" on it tied to car hood ornament / CU Red Cross nurse / MS Red Cross nurses stacking supplies outside hangar / MS men get coffee at Red Cross coffee station / CU soup is ladled into tin cups Pan over to soup handed to people waiting in line / MS men leave Red Cross station with boxes of food supplies / Pan roomful of children on cots / CU long tables with people dining / CU woman holding swaddled infant / CU people dine at long tables / Note: exact day not known

At a German Red Cross site, a nurse is seen giving Imperial German Army soldiers flowers before heading off to war. Followed by a soldier getting his cup filled with coffee, Germany, 1914. Colorized content.

Soldiers wait as Red Cross Clubmobile bus drives onto probably airfield and stops, airplanes in bg / soldiers at open windows getting cups of coffee and donuts / looking out clubmobile window counter as soldiers reach for coffee and donut out of tray / MS soldiers in front of service bus / CU soldier gets coffee from counter / servicemen crowded around clubmobile; pan to see crowd lined up / soldiers and bus / woman holds tray of donuts, soldier holding coffee picks up two; smiling man behind him gets two / CU Red Cross woman with tray hands a donut to man / woman holding out tray of maybe cigarettes / VS CU woman holding tray, can see Red Cross badge on shoulder of uniform, soldiers behind / MS woman tries a couple times to light man's pipe with match, guarding flame with hand; they laugh when unsuccessful; badge on her coat reads MP / another woman lighting same pipe, smoke swirls out and they laugh victoriously, soldiers behind watch / CU soldier takes bite of maybe cookie and smiles into camera / CU smiling soldier holding cup and donut; he dips it into coffee / CU female officer drinking coffee / soldiers at window / CU man takes bite of donut, then drinks coffee / MS officers eating, others behind / CU two soldiers drink from metal cups / soldier brings down tray with few donuts; he grabs two and returns tray to window, can see word Clubmobile on side / rinsing out cups in bucket of water on ground / women on bus wave as it leaves area / soldier waving back, others behind / MS soldier with cigarette in mouth gives quick wave, others behind / woman at door at rear of bus as it goes down road away from camera / Note: exact year not known; documentation incomplete

On rail station platform, soldiers on stretchers are given cigarettes / soldiers are given newspapers, food and drinks by Red Cross workers through windows of the train, close-ups of soldiers drinking coffee.

Soldiers unloading boxes from truck parked next to building / soldier inside arranging doughnuts, Italian boy standing in foreground looking at camera / two shots of Red Cross workers carrying wooden boxes of doughnuts across furrowed field / female Red Cross worker handing out doughnuts and coffee to line of soldiers / General Mark Clark, Commanding General of Allied Fifth Army, walking along path with Red Cross worker / Clark stands in front of tent and eats doughnut, female Red Cross worker standing next to him, she hands doughnut to officer standing next to Clark / small group of soldiers attending Catholic mass outdoors / closer view of chaplain, soldiers behind him / close view of chaplain's vestment being blown by wind / chaplain giving communion to soldiers / Note: exact day not known

VS Red Cross nurses at separate tables register children presented by parents / VS fire fighters get coffee in ceramic cups and donuts at "coffee car" run by Red Cross women / burning building doused with water hose / fire men sort through smoking rubble / Red Cross nurse in white uniform and cape stands with arms around shoulders of small boy and girl / Note: exact year not known

MOT 1946: RED CROSS: REST CENTER: WS Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft moving on runway (after landing). VS Veteran soldiers exiting airplane, walking w/ luggage toward canteen, 'Kobler.' INT VS Vets getting coffee, drinking coffee. Post-WWII

Crowd at Chicago reception for General Mark W Clark / crowd and soldiers seated / wounded veterans getting coffee and donuts from Red Cross workers / wounded veteran drinking coffee / General Clark getting off plane at Municipal Airport in Chicago / General Clark shaking hands with Chicago mayor Edward J Kelly / General Clark riding in car / car rides past crowd lining sidewalk / crowds / General Clark in car / crowd seated / Mrs Clark and daughter Ann waiting for General Clark / General Clark towards camera / General Clark kisses wife and wife waves / General Clark talking to crowd.

Title card: "Air Raid 'Victims' Rescued in Drill, American Red Cross" superimposed on wreckage / Uniformed Red Cross women workers run from an open doorway and step into a panel van, man wearing a helmet and an arm band shuts the rear door / the headlights of a truck come to a stop / Men use an ax to break down building door, and women and man carrying a folded stretcher all enter / Men dig inside a collapsed room with a flare lighting the scene / they carry a person out of the doorway into a gloomy scene outside / they carry stretcher to a 'Bell Cab Association 160' vehicle with some difficulty / another person is moved from the debris inside / The gathered group huddles around people being treated for their injuries with a woman having her foot bandaged / Nurses attend to patients in a garage with a parked fire truck / two nurses help a man sip from a cup / A person on a stretcher is lifted from the rubble back inside; he's carried out / People grab sandwiches and coffee from a Red Cross canteen truck / Graphic: "Watch for the Next Issue of the Red Cross News" / Note: exact month/day not known

MS TWA plane taxiing on runway / high angle Sarah Rasof, the mother of Barney Ross, and Chicago Mayor Edward J. Kelly waiting on tarmac / CU Rasof's face / Ross on plane stairs with Rasof and Kelly waving to crowd in fgd / photojournalists taking photos / MS Ross kisses Rasof with Kelly standing next to them on plane stairs, photographers in fgd / CU Ross and Rasof / LS Ross and Rasof with crowd around them / MS Rasof pours coffee for Ross at dining table / MS Ross drinking coffee with Rasof standing nearby / MS Barney, Sarah, and other sons sitting in living room looking at cane / CU Ross and family / MS man presents Ross with Red Cross citation scroll and shakes his hand, SOT Ross: "Thank you, Mr. Chester, from the bottom of my heart"; Red Cross nurses and other women in uniform stand in bg / CU citation / CU Ross talks about the Red Cross, blood plasma and the soldiers fighting; "God bless all our boys on those lines" / high angle Ross, Rasof, and Kelly walk through crowd on tarmac toward microphone / high angle MCU Ross and Rasof at microphones, SOT Ross expresses joy at being back in Chicago with this family," then leans over and kisses mother / CU side view Ross and Rasof "...I only wish all the boys on the fronts could really enjoy this happiness with me." then leans over and kisses his mother / MS Rasof, wearing Star of David necklace, pours coffee for Ross / CU mom and son kiss / MS son sitting at dining table kisses mom standing next to him / MS Ross, Rasof and Kelly standing in dining room / VS Kelly and Ross shake hands and laugh / CU Ross and Rasof / Note: exact day not known

NEW YORK CITY - NOVEMBER 16: People chant "Workers on strike, don't cross the picket line" as they picket outside of a Starbucks store in New York's East Village as Starbucks Workers United have announced that they are waging the company's largest strike Thursday on the coffee company's Red Cup Day on November 16, 2023 in New York City. Across the country, thousands of Starbucks workers from around 200 unionized stores will go on strike on the annual Red Cup Day which gives customers a free reusable cup after ordering a holiday drink. The union has said it is demanding that the company bargain on issues including staffing and scheduling. (Footage by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

NEW YORK CITY - NOVEMBER 16: People chant "Workers on strike, don't cross the picket line" as they picket outside of a Starbucks store in New York's East Village as Starbucks Workers United have announced that they are waging the company's largest strike Thursday on the coffee company's Red Cup Day on November 16, 2023 in New York City. Across the country, thousands of Starbucks workers from around 200 unionized stores will go on strike on the annual Red Cup Day which gives customers a free reusable cup after ordering a holiday drink. The union has said it is demanding that the company bargain on issues including staffing and scheduling. (Footage by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)