The Army News Service in the United States. The New York City branch of the Army News Service news agency. A man enters the newroom office. Enlisted men seated at desks working on editing of news. Newspapers kept on a table. Men and women journalists, reporters, and editors work on the news as they receive news. They edit news with the help of typewriters. News articles being pasted on boards. Soldiers aboard trains. They buy newspapers to read. News articles on the boards. Soldiers reading the news. Men in a radio room. They receive news. Radio towers in a field. (World War II period).
A trans-Atlantic Air France Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation (F-BGNA) crashes in Preston City, Connecticut, United States. 37 passengers and crew members of Air France Flight AF075 escaped death. The wrecked airplane and the damage in the area where the airplane crashed. People look at the wreckage. A woman carrying her child while seated in chair. Wounded in hospital beds. Doctors and nurses treat them. Other passengers are seated in chairs inside the hospital.
U.S. 2nd Armored Division, 745th Tank Battalion in Saint Amand, France during World War II . People gather on either sides of a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. Soldiers aboard military vehicles pass through the streets of the city. People cheering.
U.S. 2nd Armored Division, 745th Tank Battalion in Saint Amand, France during World War II . People gather on either sides of a street. Buildings along the sides of the street. French civilians give tank crew members French flags as they pass through the city. They cheer for the passing tank convoy. Children waving towards the tank convoy.
Foreigners flee from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The last Italian Consul and other officials leave the city. Men seated on horsebacks moving across the area. Men constructing bomb proof shelters. They dig out mud and are engaged in construction work. Officials at a railroad station. They board a train and the train leaves the area.
Clip compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government, during World War 2. Men and women working in offices. A young woman seated at a desk and doing clerical work. Identification cards of civilian women working for the U.S. Army. Pedestrians and workers walking on a street of Washington DC. Buildings along street sides. People at the entrance of Union Station. A woman identified as Phyllis Hood joins others in a Diamond Taxi cab leaving Union Station. Woman exits the taxi and looks at various buildings as she seeks a place to live in Washington. Boards on buildings read: 'No Vacancy', 'No Rooms' and 'Filled Up'. Wearing a fur coat and hat, she stops and sits on her suitcase, removes a shoe, and rubs her tired feet. She talks to a police officer on a traffic corner, who directs her to the U.S. Office of Information. She is seen inside the main hallway of the Office of Information. They direct her to an availble room at the former French Embassy building at the intersection of 16th Street and Kalorama Road NW in Washington DC, by Meridian Hill Park. She enters the building which that narrator says serves as a hotel for girls. She talks to a receptionist in the main hall lobby and then ascends the stairs. Phyllis Hood along with two other girls seated inside a room. They talk amongst themselves and relax. Woman hangs nylon stockings from a hanger to dry. The women going to sleep at night and turning out bedside lights. A large room with an operations maps, and clocks on the curved wall showing time in various international cities.
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