Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Men working on damaged storage batteries. Battery cells are replaced. Buildings in the background. Dead cells are lifted from cases. Dead elements are removed from the cells. New elements are prepared and reinserted in the batteries. Totally unusable batteries are sold for scrap. Some of the parts are melted down and reused in other things.
Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Men working outside a tent. They work on reclamation of bullets and shells. Damaged shells are reclaimed. Shell cases are collected. The shell cases piled up on the ground. They are melted down and reused.
Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. Men working on the reclamation of equipment damaged during the war. A wrecked locomotive in a building. Men repairing the locomotive. They weld parts of the locomotive. Freight cars are repaired and wheels are changed.
A U.S. Navy training film titled 'Early care of Plastic surgery' about the treatment of American soldiers with facial injuries during World War II. An ambulance arrives at a field hospital in the European Theater. Wounded soldiers get off the ambulance. Wounded soldier with a mutilated face lies down on bed. Medics help him to lie down on side and cover him with a blanket to keep him warm. Penicillin being administered to the soldier. Animation shows the blood vessels on a human face and the location of 7th Cranial nerve.
U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder aircraft in the European Theater during World War II. A B-26 aircraft taxis along the perimeter of an air strip. A B-26 aircraft taxis down the perimeter. B-26 aircraft parked on both sides of the strip. B-26 aircraft lined up on the perimeter as they await take off instructions. The aircraft move up and take off. A B-26 aircraft starts down a runway.
A United States base camp in the European Theater during World War II. Weapons and artillery camouflaged with sheets. Ammunition on a trolley.