Film begins showing steel framework for a new war plant under construction during World War 2. Next, workers are seen painting aircraft parts at the Vultee aircraft plant in Downey California. A crane at the plant moves an aircraft tail section to mate with the forward fuselage of an airplane. Cranes move wing segments through the plant. Workers, including a woman, lower a radial engine into place at the front of a BT-13 Valiant training airplane. A line of such aircraft is seen behind the one the camera is focused on. Scene shifts to the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California, where bodies of Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra passenger planes are seen covering the factory floor. A glimpse of Lockheed B-24 Liberator bombers in an assembly line next to men working engines of a partially assembled Electra 14 aircraft. Lockheed P-38 lightning fighter planes being assembled at another part of the plant. A P-38 taxis past a line of parked Lockheed Hudson light bombers and takes off on a test flight. View from below of gleaming aluminum P-38 climbing out. Aerial view from above of P-38 flying over land near some mountains.
Twenty one New B-17B bombers of the U.S. Army Air Corps 19th Bombardment Group are parked at Hickam Field in Honolulu, after flying 2400 miles from San Francisco, on May 31, 1941. Several views of the B-17s on the field. One simply displays the number 96 on its tail. A momentary glimpse of a Lockheed P-38 aircraft taxiing away, past parked B-17s. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows U.S. Army Brigadier General Charles H. Bonesteel, Commander of the VI Corps Area, seated in a new jeep with Ford Motor Company President, Edsel Ford, at the wheel in a Ford Motor Company factory in during World War 2. This jeep is the first in an order for 1500 jeeps being delivered by Ford to the U.S. Army. Ford Company executives in business suits, covered by white lab coats are in the background, along with regular factory workers. One executive signals for the jeep to be moved ahead, out of the factory. Next, the film shows jeeps being demonstrated at the Ford Motor testing ground. Army officers and Ford Company executives line a ridge overlooking the test ground as drivers take several jeeps through their paces in demanding circumstances. Scene shifts to Fort Benning, Georgia, where jeeps of the Army's 4th Division are seen driving along a dirt road towing small field artillery pieces. Several are also seen driving (without artillery pieces) through dense woods and other obstacles at the Army base.
Activities at Ford River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan during World War II. Freighter being loaded by a huge crane. Locomotive wheels turning. Smoke stacks of the Ford River Rouge Complex. Foundry and sparks flying in the factory. Metal poured into smaller ladle. Molten metal being moved by crane in a large ladle. Machine in operation. Crankshaft on conveyor. View of crane hooks and machine. Worker punching time card. Feet of workers walking in the plant yard. Automobiles in traffic that narrator states are nowadays equipped with safety glass.
A new (unknown brand) 1941 car is displayed driving toward the camera in a park-like setting. It has a sloping hood and two large sized kidney shaped grills. it displays a Michigan manufacturer license plate number M 10 26. Extreme front closeup of the car's hood. Later, the car drives with its right side to the camera. It Appears to have a one-piece windshield and solid steel wheels. The rear of the vehicle is rounded. It also passes with its left side toward the camera. The car parked on a lawn, its white overall color silhouetted against the dark foliage background.
Restaurants in Miami, Florida. A sign outside a restaurant reads 'Fish Dinner with two vegetables and coffee with white belt dairy cream 30 cents'. A parked exotic car with extremely long hood and one piece curved windshield partially opened upward above the car hood. Sign at restaurant beside the car advertises "Hot fish sandwiches 10 Cents." A sign on sidewalk reading "Bar-B-Q. Fish and Beer." left front wheel of a car parked nearby. Camera focuses again on "Hot Fish Sandwiches" sign. Another view of the "Fish dinner for 30 cents," sign.
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