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Signal Corps Radio 694 radio set internal construction with transmitter and receiver units shown.
Guards of transmitter and receiver units are removed by the radio engineer to show the internal construction and the panel guard of SCR 694 radio set. Transmitter unit is removed. Power cable and connectors are shown. Tube circuit and crystal compartment on transmitter is shown by radio engineer.
Signal Corps Radio 694 radio set receiver including hand generator and vibrator power supply control system explained.
Operating receiver unit of SCR 694 radio set shown. Receiver unit is detached from case of SCR 694 radio set by radio engineer. Control system is shown. View of engineer working with hand generator and vibrator power supply unit. Insulator is attached to the case by engineer. View of vertical antenna of SCR 694 radio set in a moving vehicle and a horizontal antenna in fields.
Food and gasoline rationing practices in the United States during World War II.
Food and gasoline ration in United States during World War II. People lined up outside a grocery store. Signs in the stores show lack of supplies. People at the counters. Gasoline Ration Card's close view. Women and men at the stores. Cars at a fueling station in Washington DC. A service station attendant pumps gas into a waiting automobile that has proper ration cards to receive the fuel. The U.S. Capitol building is visible in the background behind the car being fueled. Roads and streets with very little traffic due to gas rationing. View of pigs hanging from hooks in a meat processing plant, and being moved by meat packing workers along the processing line. Sign at the grocery store window reads 'Tuesday is meatless and also is eat-less'. Housewife in kitchen pouring fat through strainer and saving the fat oil for war effort. Young woman turns in a can of fat at the market and receives coupon for extra meat points and 4 dollars per pound of fat. Woman in kitchen crushes a tin can and puts it in a scrap metal bin to return to store for recycling. Giant trucks dumping tin collected for recycling into waiting rail boxcars. Cargo trains filled with scrap aluminum moving along railway tracks. At conclusion of World War II, sign at the fuel station reads 'Gas Rationing off No Stamps Required'. Man fuels a car. Late 1930s and mid 1940s era cars move on the road.
Test on waterborne missile 'Campbell' (WW2)
Series of tests performed on waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television in World War II. Missile disguised as motor boat. Recording shows aircraft on flight deck of a carrier. Ship underway in the sea. Destroyers approach. Man on radio. Big guns at the field. Aerials of harbor show submarine nets, antitank positions, nearby airport and radar. A bridge. Troops aboard a ship. Ships in harbor. Officers at dock. Two men aboard a motorboat in water. Plane in flight. Motorboat runs in water. Radio control receiver and radio transmitter on a missile in the boat. Boat runs in water as seen from the top, controlled by radio and television. TV scans the images from bow of the missile. Motorboat move towards the freighter.
Waterborne missile 'Campbell' disguised as a fishing boat.
Series of tests on waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television. Missile disguised as a fishing boat. Recording shows a freighter underway in the Gulf of Mexico. Workers work on fishing boat. Boat at the shores. Sounds of various engine speeds as heard through hydro phonic detectors during the test. Men in the control room. Different boats at different speed run on water. equipment on the boat. Explanation of how a ship is attacked. (World War II period).
equipment loaded on a waterborne missile Campbell.
Waterborne missile 'Campbell', remotely controlled by radio and television. Missile disguised as a motorboat. Recording shows boats at harbor. Men load equipment and explosives. Top view shows bombs placed inside a boat. Television equipment carried by men on the boat. Radio equipment control installed and batteries kept charged. (World War II period).