American Army recruits in civilian clothes get physical examination and receive uniforms during World War II. U.S. Army recruits enter a room and check-in. A doctor wearing a white gown uses a tongue depressor and checks the throat of each man. The recruits are seen receiving their new uniforms.
American Army stakes and platform van rolls on a road in United States. Soldiers enter one of the vans with a shoe repair unit. A shoe repaired. Men hand over their clothes to a man operating a washing machine van. Soldiers take showers in a truck parked in a wooded area. (World War II period).
Steel mill at production in United States. Molten steel poured from the furnace into Bessemer converters. Men shovel coal in the furnace. Molten steel on a conveyor.
United States Coast Guards with trained dogs in the United States. A dog stands on a barrel. Sailors with the dogs. Coast guards with the dogs. Coast Guards ride horses. They walk and run with the trained dogs.
African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work in forges and machine shops making vital parts for the war effort in World War 2. They work on machines helping to meet war production worker manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.
United States Coast Guards with sentry dogs in the United States. The coast guards in white uniforms as they march with the sentry dogs. They march on the Atlantic coast. Coast guard horsemen patrol the coast.