United States soldiers march. Men work in a weapon factory. A tractor moves in a field. A fenced hut. Henry Brown, a farmer washes his face and wipes with a towel. He milks a cow and collects milk in a bucket. The cow feeds a calf. Henry sits with family at the breakfast table. His wife serves them breakfast. Henry prepares his horses and moves to field. He ploughs the field. Vegetables are growing in the field. His wife works in the house. Hens in the poultry. His wife and daughter move to field. Henry is ploughing field. Henry's farming equipment in his house. Ploughed field is seen. (World War II period).
Film begins showing the Ford bomber aircraft factory at Willow Run, near Detroit, Michigan, during World War 2. Views of the heavy industrial plant with smoke rising from smoke stacks. Cranes loading ships at various docks. Modern looking administrative buildings at the Willow Run plant. A wheeled tractor pulls a train of flat cars filled with parts for the assembly line, next seen, where B-24 Liberator bombers are being assembled. Partially constructed bomber bodies and wings are seen on a production floor. In another section of the plant, war production workers assemble aircraft engines. View of and engine, enclosed in a nacelle, being lowered by a crane. A gunner's compartment being lowered by a crane. Women's Army Corps (WAC) members at work replacing men called to serve in the armed forces. A contingent of WAC practice donning gas masks. Women in uniforms of United States Women's Naval Reserve (WAVES). Two women attendants service a car at a gas station. Women not engaged in war effort are seen shopping and on a golf course and swimming. A woman hanging clothes to dry on a backyard line. A flight of three B-24 bombers flies overhead, causing women in various pursuits, to look up to the sky. Cars arrive at the Ford bomber plant in Willow Run, carrying women volunteers. One middle aged woman punches a time clock in the factory. More views of the B-24 production line, and parts being stamped by a man operating a press. Scene transitions showing the man gone, and a women replacing him at the press. Women war production workers working on aircraft frameworks. A woman, walking on a sidewalk, pauses to look at advertisements encouraging women to work in the war effort. One read: "Women at war, We can't win without them." A sign outside an office reading: "War Manpower Commission." The woman enters that office.
Sign on store 'War Manpower Commission. United States Employment Service'. Women receive training in engine shop during World War II. Women rivet in a training class. Women riveting in factory.
Young American woman walks past buildings of an American college. She is seen entering and working at a war production plant during World War 2. She works riveting a section of a warplane. View inside a factory at Willow Run, Michigan, where a line of incomplete B-17 bomber aircraft is seen. Another room contains B-24 Liberator bombers under construction. A woman in the plant holds up a set of electric lines welded together. A woman operates an overhead crane moving a crate of parts in the factory. View of her from below as her housing and the crane are operating. Another woman adjusts her protective helmet and then operates a machine-driven jig saw. Two women war workers set plexiglass sheets on a bombardier's canopy. Two other women operate a machine producing aircraft turret windshields. Women working on aircraft fuselages. View of workers getting meals at the war plant cafeteria and sitting at tables to eat. A woman returns a book to the war plant library. More views of women in various manufacturing jobs, like installing wiring in aircraft fuselages. Women employing assembly jigs. More views of B-24s partially completed. Women moving fully built up aircraft engine by overhead crane and installing such in aircraft air frames. Sections of aircraft being lowered by crane and guided by women. A tail section of a B-24 being assembled. View of completed B-24 Liberator bombers ready for final painting. Next B-24s are seen lined up on the factory ramp. Another glimpse of the B-24 production line. Series of views showing B-24 bombers in flight.
Japanese-American boys in Scout troop activities early during World War II, just before the opening Japanese internment camps and relocation centers.. A Boy Scout recruitment and fundraising poster with a smiling boy. Boys of Japanese descent stand in a line, raise their hands in the scout sign and say the scout oath, led by a Scout leader. Boys in scout troop prepare meal on campfire beside a tent. The Japanese flag flying. Likely west coast USA; possibly California.
Aliens in the United States brought to Federal courthouse and court in session of arraignment. During time of evaluation hearings, deportations, and forced internments of foreign aliens and suspected conspirators (such as German, Italian, Japanese) in the United States during World War 2 (due to the Enemy Alien Control Program authorized by President Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor). Handcuffed alien is taken out of a car and people gathered besides road watch. Woman stands at table in court while arraignment. Photographers stand on stairs of Federal court and click pictures. More handcuffed aliens brought to the courthouse. Women alien brought to Federal courthouse, she goes into the court. Alien brought to the court goes in and hides his face by a hat. Alien hides face with his hands and goes in the court. Federal court during arraignment session. People speak. Woman stands. Man speaks. Men at table discuss.