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British factory worker and his American counterpart on an international exchange visit to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Los Angeles (WW2)

A British guest on labor exchange program visit to the U.S. is staying as a house guest of his counterpart American in Los Angeles, California. We see him with several friends of his host, who also work at the Lockheed aircraft plant. They are teaching him the card game of poker. The leave to attend a meeting of District Lodge 727, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, AFL-CIO (Lockheed-California Company). There the British guest is allowed to ask questions of the union. He and his American counterpart are seen at a podium as the Briton asks about the strength of the union inside the Lockheed plant. The local union Secretary responds that they have 45 thousand members in the Lockheed plant and, noting that the British man was a shop steward back in England, mentioned that the local also had 3000 shop stewards in the Lockheed factory. The British visitor asked how the union would be affected after the war, when labor requirements would be reduced. A member answers that the first action would be to return to a 40 hour work week (from the wartime 50 hour week). He states that some workers would return to pre-war work and jobs. Finally, he says they expect Lockheed to expand the scope of its manufacturing to include consumer goods. The union is asked about accommodating workers returning from the military and answers that it is covered in the union contract, which calls for their seniority to continue to accrue while in service. The union also provides for war injured handicapped workers to return to work, and sponsored legislation to provide post-service education opportunities for all returning veterans. Asked about women now employed in the plants, one woman union member stated that many would return to their homes. But the immediate need is to employ more women to the help the Allied forces win World War II as soon as possible. Regarding the prospect of post-war employment, one union member noted the national need to convert from wartime production to the manufacture of consumer goods. The union members favored the idea of continuing labor union exchange visits between the Allied countries in the future.

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029527
Four British labor exchange visitors return home after several weeks visiting war plants and labor organizations in America (WW2)

A British guest on labor exchange program visit spends his last day as a house guest of his counterpart American's family, in Los Angeles, California. He is seen with the father in their living room with two children, while the mother prepares dinner in the kitchen. The children are sent to bed and the men and the wife, named Ellen sits down to dinner with the two men. The British guest waves goodbye to the family at their doorstep. Scene shifts to another of the British labor exchange visitors leaving the family where he had been hosted in a different city. Next, the four British labor exchange visitors are seen seated opposite representatives of American labor organizations including the American federation of Labor (AFL), the Congress of industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Railroad Brotherhood. They had met them a few weeks ago when they first arrived in the U.S. One of the labor representatives asks them about their impressions of America. They uniformly praise the effectiveness of the U.S war effort, extolling the efficiency and productivity of her war plants. One of the commenters calls for more international unity in the labor union movement. A spokesman for the American labor representatives expresses need to support the United Nations movement. Film closes showing the four British exchange visitors boarding a U.S. Army Air Corps C-54 transport plane to fly them home to England. They are checked in by an airman who wears a leather jacket with the Air Transport Command logo on it. The aircraft is seen taking off and climbing out over hangars at the airfield. (World War II period)

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029528
Interior of new Army Post Office in New York City, and distribution of packages to American soldiers at Christmas (WW2)

Exteriors of a new Army Post Office in New York City. Mail bags are unloaded from a train. Thousands of Postal mail bags filled with packages, parcels, and letters are seen stacked inside the post office. Mails being sorted inside the post office. Packages and letters on a moving conveyor belt. Bags being moved by multi-car trolleys. Troops' mails being unloaded from a truck at the war front. Packages and letters being handed out to U.S. soldiers in World War II. Soldiers standing by a Christmas tree and receiving mail. A soldiers patrols on guard duty in front of a Christmas tree.

Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029661
U.S. naval fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

General MacArthur maps the drive on Leyte with field commanders. Guarding the operation in the Philippines is a vast naval force. Battle map shows location of U.S. 7th fleet (Kinkaid) and U.S. 3rd fleet (Halsey). The air and sea Battle of Leyte Gulf. Aircraft carrier operation, planes land and take-off. Japanese plane shot down; hit by anti-aircraft fire Japanese plane cartwheels through the sky and crashes into the ocean. The USS Princeton is loss in battle. Aerial view of damage and later view of Princeton magazine exploding. Damaged plane landing on carrier deck on one landing gear. Admiral Nimitz reports on battle. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029662
Red Ball Express trucks carry military supplies to the war front (WW2)

Red Ball Express trucks carry military supplies from Cherbourg, France to the front lines in operation during World War II. Red Ball Express trucks disembark from ships on the beachheads of Normandy. War materiel gathered beside trucks. A Military Police (MP) directs Red Ball trucks on the road of a village. Officers discuss plans. Animated map showing Red Ball Express truck round trip route from Cherbourg to the Western Front. Maintenance station signage such as “Check Tires” along the Red Ball Express Road. A man changes truck tire. Red Ball Express truck drivers drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes on their breaks. Men refueling trucks using gasoline stores they carry with them. Allied truck convoy in France. Allied soldiers in French countryside. A brick wall with hole showing truck convoy in the background.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029663
U.S. Army soldiers guard group of German POWs; dead German soldiers near Westenfeld Germany

German POWs march in a group, guarded by U.S. Army soldiers of the 7th Armored Division, near Westenfeld, Germany. Bodies of two dead German soldiers lay beside a road. with an Army truck parked a few yards behind them. A U.S. soldier inspects the dead German soldiers. Faces of the dead German soldiers. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029779