Gantry being fastened during construction of Liberty ship at shipyards in California during World War 2. Union melt gantry on double bottom floors. Workers seen on the double bottom floors. Wire wound around winder. Worker emerges from the bottom floors. Workers union melt gantry on the floors. (Note: May include scenes from Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California as well as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.)
Piping double bottom during construction of a Liberty Ship at shipyard in California, during World War 2. Men weld pipes through steel walls of double bottom. Pipe welders wear protective masks with "pipe" painted on them. Men work on Liberty ship. Cranes lift completed assembly and place it on flatbed tractor trailer rated at 65 tons. The truck drives away with the assembly. (Note: May include scenes from Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California as well as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.)
View of steel plates laid out on concrete at shipyard in California during World War 2. The plates are stacked in labeled areas. A crane lifts a plate and is guided by worker. Steel plates and related parts stacked and being picked up by a Hyster Straddle Carrier and transported to the superstructure assembly area. (Note: May include scenes from Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California as well as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.)
Workers at shipyard in California, during World War 2, use a set of double acetylene torches to trim steel deck plates for a Liberty ship. The device maintains parallel cuts in adjoining deck plates, preparing for union melt. (Note: May include scenes from Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California as well as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.)
Preparing to join Liberty Ship deck plates by union melt at shipyard in California during World War II. Worker uses mechanical buffer to prepare edges of two plates prior to joining by union melt. Welder makes several tack welds. Another worker buffs the tacked spots. (Note: May include scenes from Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California as well as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.)
Several trucks and automobiles carrying Japanese-Americans citizens are stopped and directed to the side of a highway, where policemen search their personal baggage (during time in World War 2 when the U.S. government was sending many Japanese-American citizens to internment camps or relocation centers). Police officers being directed by officials in civilian clothes, search open suitcases and other containers of clothing and personal items, laid out on the pavement. The Japanese American owners repack their suitcases after they are searched. One truck open stake truck is carrying many items of luggage and clothing rolled up and tied. These are all off-loaded and spread out on the pavement for search. A Japanese American woman stands near a 1937 Chevrolet 4-door sedan, in which children are seen looking out from the back seat. The woman helps a man roll up a bundle of clothes, as a uniformed policeman, nearby, searches another one. The woman and and two men repackage and tie the bundle with cord, as a policemen looks in the car trunk. More views of Japanese Americans with their luggage laid out on the pavement being searched. One woman has belongings tied up in a cardboard box labeled: "Sunland Biscuit Company, Los Angeles & San Francisco." Under direction of a civilian official holding a walkie talkie telephone, a policeman helps people load their belongings into an open truck after they have been searched.