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U.S. soldiers watch a film at a foxhole theater and films made for workers by the Signal Corps during World War II.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Army Pictorial Service films including screen magazines and GI movies are delivered to war fronts in all Theaters during World War 2. An officer arrives in a jeep with the films. Officers and soldiers around tents at the base. Soldiers in camouflage rain coats and hats seated at a foxhole theater. The soldiers watch the latest Joan McCraken Broadway hit Bloomer Girl. Scenes from the film. US: Pictures shown to workers depict the use of products manufactured by them at the war fronts. A poster reads 'B-52 Super Bombers, Bell Aircraft'. Men working inside the Bell Aircraft Corporation plant in NY. Huge machinery, equipment and aircraft parts being manufactured. Workers near stands piled with equipment and parts. A foreign version of the films made for Chinese allies. A U.S. officer talks to soldiers. The film dubbed in Chineese.
The need for cadet nurses and young girls to volunteer for military nursing service during World War II.
A film titled 'Reward Unlimited' starring Dorothy McGuire dramatizes the need for cadet nurses during World War II. Dramatization depicts why a girl called Peggy decides to become a nurse, and how she is trained. Peggy discusses marriage and future plans with her Lieutenant boyfriend. She decides to get a war job. She meets a woman who was a nurse and who gives her information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Congress scholarships for nursing schools and duration of the courses. Peggy discusses her decision to join a nursing school with her parent. After she convinces her parents that nurses are needed, she enters training. She undergoes theoretical and practical training with many other girls in a hospital. Nursing students in classroom setting with teacher or professor at blackboard providing class instruction. Nurses receiving practical clinical instruction. Nurses using microscopes and taking notes, nurses attending patients in a hospital ward. Nurse cadet taking care of an infant baby. Nurse in surgery theater handing instruments to a doctor during operation on a patient. The graduation ceremony from the Army Nursing School. Peggy checks on a little boy called Jimmy. A government message urging young girls to volunteer for military nursing service with information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.
Dramatization depicts production, black marketing of gas coupons and citizens' responsibilities in supporting World War 2 gas rationing.
'No Alternative' dramatizes citizens' responsibilities in supporting gas rationing in the United States. Dramatization: Group of men seated playing card game. Tom interrupts a poker game to lecture on rationing, after Bob offers an illegal gas coupon to Frank. He talks about the production of automotive gasoline, increasing price and limited production of crude oil. Uses of crude oil: U.S. airmen and soldiers use crude oil to fuel aircraft and tanks. A U.S. aircraft drops bombs made with the use of crude oil. Workers produce synthetic rubber from crude oil at a plant. U.S. Navy ships, merchant fleets, railroads and war industries use crude oil. Tom explains how "black market" coupons cause shortages that affect war industries and military activities. Dramatization depicts safe breakers breaking into a ration board and stealing gas coupons worth 11 million gallons. Gasoline used by farmers in tractors, to take produce to the markets, finished ammunition, guns and tanks to the railroad stations so that they can be sent to the front. Tom points out ways to make rationing work and save gasoline including: formation of car pools, scorning illegal coupons, identifying coupons with the user's license number.
Andrews Sisters Patty,Maxene and Laverne record Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy on a V-Disc during World War II.
Lieutenant Colonel Carl Bronson thanks the Andrew Sisters on behalf of the Music Section of the Special Services Division for making V-Disc recordings that are sent to American soldiers overseas during World War 2. Patricia Marie (Patty), Maxine Angelyn (Maxene), and Laverne Sophie (Laverne) Andrews, perform 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy' for a V-Disc recording.
Film rehearsals. Actor playing role of reporter, interviews actor playing role of Soviet diplomat (WW2)
Actors portraying a scene where Soviet diplomat disembarks from a United States Army Air Force aircraft during World War II. Reporter interviews "His Excellency" on Soviet Union's attitude towards division of Germany. Diplomat answers saying the Allies should control Germany's key industries and take away its economic power to wage war.
Destroyer Escort USS Frament, DE 677, is built and launched. Destroyer Escorts fitted out, readied for shakedown cruise
U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Brennan, DE-13,underway. U.S. navy crew aboard the ship. View at shipbuilding area of Bethlehem Steel in Quincy, Massachusetts. Keel is laid and shipbuilders busy on day 60 of construction of DE-677, the USS Frament. Scenes of construction. Welding steel plate. DE-677 is christened USS Frament and launched on June 28, 1943. Destroyer Escorts at pier, being fitted out. New ship's crew assembled on pier and boards for shakedown cruise. Supplies and munitions loaded on board the ship, including ammunition, depth charges, and torpedoes ("tin fish").