Navy flying boat, Martin JRM Mars makes record flight from California to Hawaii. The flying boat prepares for its record flight. Soldiers load raw material on JRM Mars. Crew members take their place inside the aircraft, ready to take off. Martin JRM Mars takes of from water surface and begins its flight. Pilot and co pilot operate controls, seated in the cockpit. (World War II period).
Picking cotton with machines in Mississippi, United States. Farmers work on the farm. Machines move on farm and pick cotton. More quantity of cotton picked by machines than by hands.
A U.S. soldier radio announcer introduces the radio program "Jubilee" as a band of Army musicians, in uniform, plays a fanfare. Opening montage features a man writing a V-mail fan letter to "Jubilee" to the Armed Forces Radio Service. Montage also shows V-mail staff women processing mail. Announcer Ernie 'Bubbles' Whitman then introduces 'Rochester' from the Jack Benny program. Lena Horne comes to mic and crowd applauds. Rochester and Lena Horne sing "Consequences." Timmie Rogers and Private Bate Wallace then perform, with Timmy Rogers singing, "Bring Enough Clothes for Three Days." Lena Horne is introduced again, finishing the program with the song, "That Man I Love." (World War II period).
A farm in Iowa, United States. A portrait. Signs read 'Dallas Center' and 'Oskaloosa'. Several men walk and talk on a road early in the morning. Newspaper and milk bottles delivered outside a house. Hands of clocks show the time as 4:45. Routine work at a farm in Iowa. Th owner of the farm comes and wakes up his son. The boy gets up from the bed and washes himself. He comes and sits at a dining table. His father and sister eat their breakfast. The mother brings breakfast. The son feeds the hogs on the farm. The wife of the owner tends the poultry. She feeds the hens. The owner talks about labor shortage . He plows the farm. His daughter drives a tractor.
Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Trainee paratroopers train at Fort Benning. They undergo obstacle courses. The paratroopers don equipment. Captain Lilyman as an officer speaks to the trainees. Aircraft in flight. The paratroopers aboard an airborne airplane. View from chest mounted camera of a paratrooper with a cigar in his mouth as he descends, smiling, toward the ground with his parachute open. The paratroopers drop from the airplane with parachutes and descend.
Scrap of damaged airplanes being used for manufacturing new aircraft at the Alameda Naval Air Station in California. An aircraft in a hoist. A heap of wrecked aircraft parts. Women look at an aircraft. Men pull out metal pieces from the scrap to be used for manufacturing new aircraft. Butch O'Hare's aircraft also being used for the purpose. Metal pieces being piled up at the air station.