Many four engine British AVRO Lancaster bombers with engines running as they prepare to depart from the UK on a nighttime bombing mission over Germany, during the 2nd World War.
National Youth Administration in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service determines youths' fitness to work in the United States. An executive of Public Health Service reads a report of an NYA worker and puts it among rejected application. A seal on the report: Health Unsatisfactory. The NYA worker comes out the building. NYA workers at work. A group of NYA workers is sitting. Public Health Service administrators attend a conference. The insignia of U.S. Public Health Service. A sign: 'Office of Surgeon General, Dr. Parran, Dr. Draper'. Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon General, works in his office and he talks to Dr. Carl E. Wright. A nurse does a health examination. Chest measurement of an NYA worker is taken. A dentist examines the NYA worker.
National Youth Administration in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service determines youths' fitness to work in the United States. An optometrist does the eye check up of a young women. U.S. Public Health Service teacher explains dental decay by using teeth models. A dental examination of NYA workers by a dentist. An African American woman gets her teeth cleaned.
National Youth Administration in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service determines youths' fitness to work in the United States. Boys receive physical examination, check up of heart and check up for diseases caused by an improper diet. Doctors examine NYA women workers to diagnose tuberculosis. Boys and girls are examined by doctors at a free clinic. X-rays of NYA workers are taken. An X-ray is viewed by the doctors. An examination shows presence of tuberculosis in the boys and the girls. An NYA health personnel makes a report of physical fitness.
National Youth Administration in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service determines youths' fitness to work in the United States. NYA boys and girls live in NYA resident centers. A Public Health Service dietary kitchen: boys shelling peas; girls skinning onions; boys slicing deli meat. Girl removes cookies from oven. Meal tray loaded with food. African American children in a cafeteria. African American girls in maid or housekeeping dresses seen making beds. White girl brushes her hair. African American boys wash their hands. An examination of a African American girl by doctors in an orthopedic school. African American children are given cod liver oil by a nurse. Young Native American Indian Hopi tribe women with children in Arizona receiving health care training. An Orthopedic school entrance. A nurse removes a leg brace from a child polio victim and massages his leg. A teacher draws pictures of vegetables on a chalk board. African American and white children in an integrated class room practice penmanship. Two boy polio victims are pushed in wheel chairs by nurses. A boy in a body cast is pushed in a wheel chair by a nurse. NYA National Youth Administration children practice calisthenics. A girl hits a softball. A boy hits a baseball with a bat. Boys practice archery. White and African American young men boxing. Girls swim in lake water that is very clear. A girl swims to bottom of lake underwater. Young women leave the women's dormitory after school day. The insignia of U.S. Public Health Service. The flag of the United States.
After a mission aircraft return and land at an airfield in England during World War II. Ground crewmen wait for the return of the aircraft. The crewmen in groups talk. The aircraft fly over the airfield. Men in a tower look through binoculars. A United States Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress breaks from a formation and lands. A Red Cross ambulance races across a strip.