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Construction of Liberty Ships vital to War Effort in World War 2

World War II Liberty Ships that carry war materiel like guns,tanks and planes, in the Marine Shipyard in Sausalito, California, across bay from Richmond California shipyards. View of Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land (retired), speaking about the need for ships, and more ships, for the war effort. Among Liberty ships shown are Billy Mitchell, George Chamberlain, Waslater, Cermak and Charles Summer. Ships with bow numbers 434, 432, and others lined up under construction. View of Senate bill 3500, Merchant Marine Act of 1936 authorizing merchant ship building to support commerce and National Defense. Marine architects and engineers work with blueprints and models to optimize design for fleet of merchantmen that would eventually be called "Liberty Ships." National Posters seen. One shows burly shipyard worker with sledge hammer and reads: "Swing it Brother." Another shows convoy of ships at sea and reads: "You Build ''em. We'll sail 'em." Construction begins. Timbers, plates, anchors , engines, steel blades, and other of the hundred thousand items needed build a ship. Crowds of Shipyard workers leaving after a work shift. A sign on building reads,'It can and will be done', and another, under which workers walk advertises war bonds . Shaping metal with gas torches. Fabricating ribs of steel. Spray painting. A woman welder named Mary Smith, welding with torch. Cutting steel using patterns and torches. Fabricating bulkheads. Riveting. Derricks lift heavy assemblies.

Location: Sausalito California USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031500
Role of Iron and steel in construction of Liberty Ships. Use of cranes for heavy construction during World War 2.

Building a Liberty Ship in California shipyards (Sausalito or Richmond) during World War II. Raising an 8-ton steel mast from which a ship's boom will extend for loading operations. The gantry crane operator seen in control cabin. A house of steel is built to sit on the deck of an attack transport ship. It is lifted with the help of crane and put into the ship. Several cranes are used to move a 100 ton, 4000 horsepower diesel engine into place in the ship's hold.

Location: Sausalito California USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031501
Ford-Stout 2-AT "Maiden Dearborn" carries Air Mail from snow-covered Ford Airport, Dearborn Michigan

Large group of spectators gathers at Ford airport, Dearborn, Michigan. A Ford-Stout 2-AT passenger and mail transport aircraft ,one of several having the name, "Maiden Dearborn" , which is written on its tail along with: "Ford Airport of Michigan." The Ford logo is painted on its fuselage, as is "U.S. Mail." The field is snow covered. Aircraft taxis out with"assistance" from well-meaning spectators who push on the empennage as the plane moves. The airplane taxis to end of field and takes off.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1926
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031530
Assembling Ford 4-AT-A, tri-motor airplane in factory of Stout Metal Airplane Division of Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI

Inside airplane factory of Stout Metal Airplane Division, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn Michigan. Workers on scaffolding seen installing engine in nose of a Ford trimotor airplane (Ford 4-AT-A model). Workers join corrugated metal strips to form skin of airplanes. Man places rudder on empennage of plane. Two men use pneumatic guns to rivet airplane framework.

Location: Dearborn Michigan USA
Date: 1927
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031532
preparing to launch the battleship, USS Wisconsin (BB-64) on December 7, 1943, Philadelphia Naval Yard, Pennsylvania

Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, wife of the Governor of Wisconsin, holds a bottle of champagne, preparing to christen the battleship, USS Wisconsin (BB-64). Rear Admiral, M.F.Draemel, Commandant of the Navy Yard advises her how to swing the bottle and then steps away so Governor Goodland can stand next to Mrs. Goodland for photographs

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1943, December 7
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031533
Launching of USS Wisconsin (BB-64). Philadelphia Navy Yard, December 7, 1943. Governor and Mrs. Goodland of Wisconsin.

Rear Admiral, M.F. Draemel, Commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, introduces Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Ralph, A. Bard, who speaks to large group of Navy Yard personnel and visitors and spectators. The occasion is the launching of the second USS Wisconsin (BB-64) on December 7, 1943. Governor of Wisconsin, Walter S. Goodland and his wife are present. Mrs. Goodland is the official sponsor.

Location: Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
Date: 1943, December 7
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031534
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