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Film about the role of American hydroelectric power in World War II

Film opens with montage of rapid images illustrating the outbreak of World War 2 in Europe. Appeals from the Allied powers are described. Shown is a field full of American Martin B-26 bombers ready for shipment abroad. View of men working in a construction site. Towers holding high tension electric supply lines are seen. Products needing electric power for production, such as aluminum and magnesium are shown as ingots in production facilities. View of the Columbia River waters surging along its course. Views of the Bonneville Dam and power plant, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Giant electric generators operating in the hydroelectric plants. Technicians in power plant control rooms, and views of transmission lines and switch yards outside a power plant. A ship under construction at a wartime shipyard. Workers using electric arc welders during ship construction. View of the SS Mormacwren launched 22 May 1942 at the Consolidated Steel Corporation's Wilmington, California yard. Launch on May 22, 1942, of the ship, Irving S. Olds, a Bulk Freighter built by the American Ship Building Co., Lorain, Ohio. (Her launch was coordinated with those of numerous other ocean cargo vessels in yards around the United States, to bolster the national morale, when German submarines were sinking many ships in the Atlantic.) Next, a ladle of molten aluminum, to be used in aircraft manufacture, is seen pouring its contents into ingot molds. Workers dislodge the ingots after cooling. Inside an aircraft plant, men assemble aircraft parts from aluminum. A partially completed medium bomber is towed outside the plant. View of Grand Coulee Dam and of many electrical distribution facilities. Herds of sheep moving across the Grand Coulee Dam to new pastures.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032614
Troop Carrier ship USS Wakefield is gutted by fire in the Atlantic Ocean while it was en route to her destination.

View of troop ship USS Wakefield on September 3, 1942 off the New England coast after a fire breaks out while the transport was en route to her destination. The ship at sea off the American coast. Smoke rises from the fire. (World War II period).

Date: 1942, September 3
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070730
Allied ships bombed and destroyed by German U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean at the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII.

The Battle of the Atlantic in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. An Allied ship at sea crashing through high waves that cover its bow. Point of view shot of ship advancing in heavy waves. A Nazi flag on a German U-boat. The Nazi submarine submerges in sea. View of torpedo being fired from submarine toward Allied ship. Multiple views of allied ships and merchant ships being attacked, torpedoed, and sinking after attacks by German submarines. A ship sinks. Sailors and merchant seamen cling to debris from a ship following attack as they ready for rescue. Surviving sailors row a small rescue boat toward a rescuing ship. Sailors aid injured and tired sailors and merchant seamen personnel as they board rescue ships.

Date: 1942
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067753
U.S. Navy ships, patrol boats and vessels underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.

A U.S. Naval Fleet underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. U.S. ships and vessels underway in the Atlantic Ocean. A U.S. Navy barrage balloon in flight. A navy patrol aircraft in flight. Patrol boats and ships underway at sea.

Date: 1942, June 29
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057755
USS Kearney being repaired after a U boat attack in the Atlantic Ocean and sails to Boston during World War 2

Damage and repair of USS Kearny (DD-432) after it was attacked by a German U-boat in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Animated map locates the position of U.S. Navy vessel USS Kearney in the Atlantic Ocean when the German submarine struck it. Ships at sea. A damaged USS Kearney at sea after the attack. The crew aboard the ship being rescued as they come aboard another ship. The damaged ship at a fjord in Iceland. Men make repairs on the ship as smoke rises. Men weld parts of the ship. USS Kearney sails to Boston. The mast of the ship and the control room. The ship underway at sea after being repaired.

Date: 1942
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059338
A U.S. Navy blimp drops bombs in the Atlantic Ocean while on a patrol during World War II.

A U.S. Navy blimp over a U.S. convoy underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. A U.S. Navy blimp inside a hangar. The pilot's cabin of the blimp. The blimp in flight over an Atlantic convoy. Interiors of blimp cabin shows a pilot and an observer. The pilot at the controls. Two bombs leave the bomb rack of the blimp. Explosions in water. The convoy underway during a sunset.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061478
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