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Many views of people going about their routine activies in the Philippines. View of some being trained by American soldiers, to prepare for their defense in World War II
At opening, Filipino women are seen walking alongside a row of factory buildings. A factory room filled with Filipino women dressed in white caps and white uniforms engaged in production at individual individual work stations in a factory. A machine shop filled with Filipino men engaged in metal work. Several people at the window of an office, conducting business with a woman inside. A stock or commodities market office with quotes on tote boards. Women working alongside a moving production line. A woman operating a fabric processing machine. Filipino miners pushing hopper cars of mined ore across a bridge. Miners riding on an engine pulling a train of hopper cars filled with ore from a mine. Filipino longshoremen handling cargoes on a wharf. Scene shifts to an open field where a number of Filipino men are being trained to use firearms during World War 2. One is being coached by an American soldier as he works with a Browning M 1917 water cooled machine gun. Lines of Filipino men firing rifles under supervision of U.S Army trainers. A contingent of uniformed Filipino soldiers, led by an American soldier, marches past a sign, in an camp of tents, reading "A-T Company, 1st Filipino Infantry." Filipino soldiers at a tent camp, being instructed by an American soldier, using a large set of maps. Camera pans over a camp of many tents laid out in order. A formation of Filipino soldiers marches between tents. An American soldier opening his foot locker at his quarters. An illustrated portrait of General Douglas MacArthur. A formation in a field with a Filipino band playing and a Color Guard carrying the American and Filipino flags. A large group of Filipino children walking along a path. A Filipino boy lying on the floor in his home, reading a large book. Filipino school girls seated at benches next to tables. Women doing laundry at an outdoor pond. Next, an actor in khaki clothing sits in a tent and speaks as if addressing American soldiers regarding the Philippines. Among other things, he says,"These people aren't natives. They aren't beggars. They have cities and farms and industries.They have schools and courts and a Constitution. They also have pride and patriotism and self-respect. They love freedom They'll die for it." He cautions American soldiers about their behavior vis-a-vis Filipinos. He states that "Filipinos are American." He alludes to messages received from American and Filipino defenders in Fort Mills, at the fall of Corregidor on May 5, 1942. View of radio towers and Morse code messages heard as an American army radio operator with a headset transcribes the messages. Scene shifts to an amphibious invasion fleet attacking a Japanese held island in the Pacific.
United States Marines fire with machine gun at Sugar Loaf Hill during Battle of Okinawa in WW2
United States Marines fire at Japanese using a Browning M1917 machine gun during battle of Sugar Loaf Hill in Okinawa in World War 2. Another Marine holds the ammunition belt for the Marine firing with machine gun. United States Marines fire with machine gun at hilltop.
Survivors of WWI German U-Boat attacks are processed in Newport Rhode Island USA.
Survivors of German U-Boat attacks off the USA coast during WWI are given tickets by an officer as they disembark from a ship. Survivors massed on pier. A crew of sailors stand in front of their encampment. A short sailor smiles as he smokes a pipe. View of destroyer in harbor. Men, probably more survivors, exit from the hold of a ship. Men, woman, and children walk together through a train yard. Women and children pose with officers. Three children seated together, one wearing a sailor's cap. Brief shot of the U.S. Capitol building dome in Washington at night.
World War I United States arms factory
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of war production workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)
1917 Enfield Rifles in final stages of production during WW I.
1917 Enfield Rifles (U. S. Rifle, Model of 1917) being manufactured in the United States at one of 3 arms plants (Winchester, Remington, or Eddystone) during World War 1 (between the Spring of 1917 and the Spring of 1919). Film shows assemblers hand fitting parts, a worker adjusting the front sight for proper "zero" in a machine vise, and "Proof" firing before final inspection and acceptance. (Note: At the peak of production, the 3 arms plants were turning out 10,000 rifles per day.)
Inlets along the coast of Puget Sound and Hood Canal areas in Washington, United States.
Various inlets, some with fine homes near the water, seen along the coastline in the areas of Puget Sound, Hood Canal, and San Juan Islands. A sailing ship at anchor near a wooden dock. A man on the deck of the steam ferry ship SS Potlatch. Wooded shoreline in the background.
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