U.S. Army Air Force activities during World War 2. An aviation cadet stands. Group of aviation cadets on flight line at an airfield. Animation of groups going through air and ground training. AT-6 Texan training planes in flight. WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots or WASP) board AT-6s. Woman in cockpit of a U.S. Army Air Forcs C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Two women in cockpit of a plane towing a gunnery target. WACs (Women's Army Corps) in a control hangar. Woman fuels an aircraft.
U.S. Army Air Forces home front activities in U.S. during World War 2.. Animation shows air crews undergo an operational training. Air crews getting into U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft. U.S. Army Air Forces AT-11 Kansas plane drop bombs. U.S. Army Air Forces P-39 Airacobra fighter planes strafe targets in water. Officer briefs crews. U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bomber plane flies low over ground. Pilot looks through gun sight at target. U.S. Army Air Forces A-20 Havoc bomber in flight.
U.S. Army Air Forces activities in U.S. during World War 2. Animation shows air combat crew of U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft representing a squadron. Animation depicts how bomber command and fighter command are formed comprising of individual crewmen, squadrons, groups, and wings. Animation shows Air Service Command work area. Aircraft engines in a repair shop. Interiors of a stock room. Large storage area and steel drums of gasoline. B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft in flight. Shadow of B-17 flying over ground. B-17 landing. Damaged B-17. B-17 crash landed. Air service command crews work on a plane to get it in flyable condition. B-17 takes off from an airfield.
A U.S. Navy blimp crashes among trees in the United States. A rescue team of civilian workers uses wooden levers to raise the gondola from the ground and removes the airship fabric from trees. Navy and Marine Officers and men around the gondola of the airship. The men carry wooden planks to the crash site. Men push and lift up the gondola. The officers watch. The fabric of the airship spread over the trees. Men try to remove the fabric from the trees.
A film titled 'Gas Racket' dramatizes the sale of counterfeit and stolen ration stamps to a retail gasoline dealer in the United States during World War II. Interior of a bar shows a gasoline peddler taking a look at counterfeit gasoline ration stamps being printed. The peddler shows counterfeit gasoline ration stamps to a gasoline dealer. The dealer checks the counterfeit stamps and talks to a woman in an open convertible. The dealer pays the peddler for the counterfeit stamps he buys. A car refueled at the gasoline station. The dealer places the counterfeit stamps received from the peddler and customers on a gum sheet and endorses them. The dealer buys gasoline from his distributor against bingo sheets. The distributor deposits these bingo sheets in a bank from where it passes on to the OPA (Office of Price Administration) auditors for verification. The stamps are separated by the OPA auditors and are detected by women trained for detection of illegal ration currency.
Dramatizes the detection of counterfeit and stolen ration stamps by personnel trained in detection of illegal ration currency in the OPA (Office of Price Administration) detection center in the United States. A woman shows a bingo sheet with few stolen stamps detected by the serial numbers on them. The list shows time and place from where these stamps were stolen. Women detect more stamps from gum sheets. Shows the manner in which endorsement sign differs on each stamp. News in newspapers about the arrests of gas black marketers.