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President of Lukens Steel Company, Robert W. Wolcott, speaks about the importance of scrap metal in the wartime steel industry (WW2)

Smokestacks in a steel factory in the United States during World War 2. Robert W. Wolcott, the President of the Lukens Steel Company in Coatesville, Pennsylvania (the oldest steel mill in commission within the United States), and also chairman of the American Industry Salvage Committee, speaks about the importance of scrap metal in steel production for the war efforts in World War 2. Robert W. Wolcott speaks to two men inside his office. Wolcott’s office is decorated with patriotic posters on the use of scrap for war production (“Half the Metal in every ship, every tank, every gun is SCRAP!”). Behind Robert W. Wolcott is a sign saying “American Industries Salvage Committee”. “This decline in scrap must be checked. Steel, scrap must flow to the mill. This is becoming a serious situation. And it is a definite challenge to industry” concludes Robert W. Wolcott.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079272
Men building ships and making artillery shells (WW2)

Shipbuilding and shell production in the United States during World War 2. Men on scaffold work on a ship in dry dock. Man applies white paint to mark decking. Man takes out a molten metal from foundry furnace. Man working a shell casing on a lathe. Man operating a drilling rig moves shell casings. A group of shells are carted away. Men working on molten steel furnace and casting shells. Men arranging newly made shells.

Date: 1944
Duration: 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079273
Shipment of war materiel from U.S. ports, scrap metal collection (WW2)

War materiel and construction items to be shipped to United States soldiers and Allied nations fighting during World War 2. Stacks of metal frames in port. Rolls of chain link. Men arrange stacks of rolled barbed wire. Light tanks on flatbed rail cars readied for transport. Men load fuel steel drums into train box cars. Men drive Ford GPA "amphibious jeeps" onto train platform. Jeeps, artillery and war materiel on docks. A field gun is lowered to a ship by a crane. Sign says “Iron SCRAP Steel”. A crane moves a box of scrap metal. Man shears scrap metal. A wrecking ball falls, breaking scrap metal. Men performing use cutting torches and chains inside a factory to break down scrap metal. An obsolete WWI tank is carried by a crane and lowered onto a pile of other WW1 scrapped military equipment. Man uses cutting torch to dismantle a very large artillery cannon. Junkyard magnet crane unloads two obsolete shells onto scrap metal pile.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079275
Major General Lucius D. Clay speaks of importance of scrap metal for war production (WW2)

View of The Pentagon in Washington DC. Entrance facade of The Pentagon. Sign says “Director of Materiel Army Service Forces Major General Lucius D. Clay”. Major General Lucius D. Clay, Director of Materiel speaks about the importance of steel in the production of US war materiel for World War 2. A secretary writes down his speech. “However our contribution to the collection of scrap can in no way meet the demand. We must depend on our home front, to exert its best effort, to collect the huge tonnage of scrap. The steel industry must have the scrap if our arms services are to obtain the high quality of steel needed for invasion. The collection of steel scrap is a vital part of our war supply program” Major General Lucius D. Clay says as he concludes his speech.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079276
Naval guns and torpedoes manufactured, USS Wisconsin launched (WW2)

Steel used for ship building and war materiel manufacture in the United States during World War 2. Shipbuilding at a dock. Sign says “U.S. Naval Advance Base Depot”. A steam locomotive pulls a 16 inch naval gun from a factory. Men move newly made torpedo via overhead conveyor. Men building torpedoes in a factory. A huge engine is being lifted by an overhead crane. A United States Naval officer speaks with a factory executive. The launching of the Iowa-class battleship, USS Wisconsin (BB-64), in the Philadelphia Navy Yard on December 7, 1943. Assisted by Rear Admiral Melo F. Draemel, Mrs. Margaret Roche-Goodland, wife of Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland, successfully breaks a bottle of champagne over the ship's bow. The USS Wisconsin starts down the dry dock during launch.

Date: 1943, December 7
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079277
Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane speaks about United States Navy shipbuilding steel needs during WW2.

View of the Navy Department building, also known as the Main Navy and Munition Buildings (now demolished and turned into Constitution Gardens. Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20024, United States). Sign says “Bureau of Ships”. Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane speaks about the United States Navy’s shipbuilding and maintenance program during World War 2 and great needs for steel. To underscore his point, he notes that, "A single salvo of the main battery guns of such a ship as the South Dakota, for example, will take 10 tons of finished steel." He goes on to say, “Our job in the Navy until the war is over is using steel to build and to fight. We must continue to rely on the Homefront efforts to collect the big tonnage of heavy industrial scrap which is needed to make a fine quality steel in huge quantities which we need in the Navy” concludes Rear Admiral Edward L. Cochrane.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675079278