A film about use and importance of M8 cargo carriers. An M4 tractor and a 71/2 ton truck arrive. An M4 tractor pulls cargo as it moves through snow covered regions and muddy areas. A picture of an M4 tractor and a 71/2 truck. An M8 cargo carrier. The engine of the M8 cargo carrier. Soldiers board the cargo carrier. A 50 caliber machine gun mounted onto the cargo carrier. Rubber tires and suspension wheels of the M8. The M8 cargo carrier pulls artillery. A dozer at the nose of the M8 cargo carrier.
A film about use and importance of M20 rocket launchers. U.S. soldiers fire rifles on a battlefield. The soldier march. An aircraft in flight as paratroopers drop. Crew members set up an M20 rocket launcher. A gunner puts on a protective mask. Shells being loaded into the rocket launcher. The gunner fires the rocket launcher at a tank and smoke rises. The gunner seated in a kneel down position as a man loads the rocket launcher. The M20 rocket launcher being fired. The gunner in a prone position as he prepares to fire the M20rocket launcher. The launcher placed on an elevating screw. The crew fires the rocket.
The use and importance of a tire remover. Huge piles of worn out tires. Tires of U.S. Army vehicles as they roll. A flat tire. Men work on a tire with hammers and tire irons. Men assemble the U.S. Army tool Set number 8, namely: a heavy duty tire remover. The tire remover being placed on a tire as men work on it. A tire being removed.
A film about testing of rocket models at White Sands in New Mexico, United States. Technicians in a room. A car pulls up outside a building with a sign on it that reads 'Supersonic wind tunnel laboratory'. Men at a drafting table as they design rocket models. A technician in a machine shop works on a model of a missile. A model of a rocket being tested in a wind tunnel for flight factors like drag. Technicians observe during a test flight in a compression room. Men work on control panels. Rocket models being tested in the wind tunnel under simulated flight conditions. Huge gauges on a wall as technicians take readings. An image of a rocket model under test on a viewer screen. The pattern of air density being observed. Photographic record of the image being taken. A rocket lifts off and in flight.
A film about role of U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft during Allied air attacks on Italy in World War II. U.S. Army Air Forces P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft prepare to leave as propellers rotate. The aircraft line up. A pilot gets in the cockpit of an aircraft. Guns and 500 pound bombs aboard the aircraft. Men on an observation tower. One of them speaks over a phone. The aircraft taxi along a field and take off.
Iraqi Prime Minister Sayyid Salih Jabr visits Portsmouth, England. Prime Minister Sayyid Salih Jabr from Iraq, with British Service Chief, Ernest Bevin. HMS Victory at a port. Honor guard lined up as Prime Minister Jabr reviews troops. Dignitaries embark onto the ship. Leaders dine and confer aboard the ship.