Nazi prisoners of war in Michigan, United States during World War II. The prisoners work with shovels during a road construction. They work in timber forests. A prisoner makes shoes on machines. The prisoners dine. They play chess and table tennis in a recreation room. They listen to a German band.
The Army - Navy Screen Magazine series film 'Going Home' about French pilots being trained at a flying academy in Florida, United States during World War II. U.S. aircraft stationed. U.S. and French soldiers carrying flags march. Officers review the parade. An officer presents a badge to a French pilot. The pilots being trained. The French flag on a pole. A pilot and a copilot enter the cockpit of a French aircraft. The aircraft taxis. The aircraft in flight over fields, apple trees, highways and houses in France. Bombs dropped on German installations. Smoke columns rise. An aircraft catches fire and descends.
Standard Oil Company of California, United States. Hi-Octane Division of oil refinery. Plants at refinery. Isomerization unit. Polymerization, dehexadizing and houdry processes underway. Standard Oil Refinery Office.
Film starts with view of the U.S. military headquarters Pentagon building in Virginia, as seen from Columbia Island, across the lagoon, in World War 2.. Closeup of the building. Inside, Lieutenant General Brehon Burke Somervell , Commander of the Army Service Forces (ASF) is seen presiding over a staff meeting that includes seven Major Generals, who head the ASF technical services. Flag of the Quartermaster Corps seen in closeup. Officers of that organization are seen meeting. Scene shifts to a warehouse where military supplies are being moved on trailers pulled by small tractors. Carts filled with equipment are seen. Men prepare some for transport to America's allies overseas. Men fill packages with articles of clothing. A sign reads: "Maj. Gen. Reybold, Chief of Engineers." Engineers officers at a conference table rise as their Commander, General Reybold, enters. He sits and they begin their meeting. Closeup of staff officers in the meeting. Officers walk through a section of the Army Map Service, where cartographers, draftsmen and others are busy at tables creating maps. One of them is seen fitting several aerial photographs together to form a detailed map. A cartographer at the mapping service is seen annotating a map of the Marseille area of France. Views of high speed offset presses printing large scale maps for the military. A sign identifies the office of the Chief of Ordnance. Staff officers of that office are seen at work. Closeup of small arms being placed in a shipping box. An open yard filled with M24 Chaffee light tanks. A vast yard at a railroad siding, containing countless tanks on one side and building materials on the other. Sign inside the Pentagon at office of Major General H.C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer. Closeup of General Ingles at his desk. Members of his staff consult with him. Sign at office of the Chief, Chemical Warfare Service. Major General William N. Porter, the Chief, looks over maps with several staff. Troops training under gas attack and smoke screen conditions. The entrance to the office of the Surgeon General of the U.S. Army. Inside, Major General Norman Thomas Kirk , Surgeon General, confers with a Colonel. Maps of areas where disease poses a threat to U.S. military forces. Office of Major General C.P. Gross, Army Chief of Transportation. Inside He holds a meeting with members of his staff. View of a pier where military supplies are being offloaded by means of derricks.
Smokestacks in a steel factory in the United States during World War 2. Robert W. Wolcott, the President of the Lukens Steel Company in Coatesville, Pennsylvania (the oldest steel mill in commission within the United States), and also chairman of the American Industry Salvage Committee, speaks about the importance of scrap metal in steel production for the war efforts in World War 2. Robert W. Wolcott speaks to two men inside his office. Wolcott’s office is decorated with patriotic posters on the use of scrap for war production (“Half the Metal in every ship, every tank, every gun is SCRAP!”). Behind Robert W. Wolcott is a sign saying “American Industries Salvage Committee”. “This decline in scrap must be checked. Steel, scrap must flow to the mill. This is becoming a serious situation. And it is a definite challenge to industry” concludes Robert W. Wolcott.
Mr Magazzu an exhibitor honored for bond drive in New York. Harry Brandt, Chairman of 6th War Loan Drive for the Motion Picture Industry congratulates Mr Magazzu , an exhibitor for his activities in the drive during World War II. A sign reads 'War Bond'. Phyliss Brooks puts medal. The medal reads 'War Activities Committee Motion Picture Industry'. Mr Magazzu shakes hand with Harry Brandt.