Damaged aircraft landing during World War 2. A B-24 Liberator with non-functioning landing gear comes in for a landing and slides on a runway. A B-25 aircraft comes in for a landing and landing gear partially fails. Pilot controls plane as it skids to a stop. A B-25 bomber aircraft on runway during takeoff suddenly pitches forward and nose crashes into ground. Air Force technicians at Davis-Monthan Air Base near Tucson Arizona cannibalize and reuse serviceable parts of various aircraft They assemble airplane tails, gas tanks, oil radiators and oxygen tanks. Technicians reclaim other parts from the aircraft that can be reused.
A United States post-war report about salvage and reclamation efforts to reuse supplies and reduce costs both during World War 2 and after the war. Technicians create aluminum plates for Army mess gear from salvaged aircraft parts during World War 2. Reclaimed parts used to make washing machine of gasoline drums, field telephone wires, air force tire trailer. The army salvaging and reclaiming cranes, chains, tents, tanks, shoes, axes, medical equipment, musical instruments, fire lamps, fire extinguishers. Technicians load crates of reclaimed materials on conveyor belts. An Army signal corps cameraman holding a motion picture camera. Films being picked up in bags from an Army van. Films being edited, cut, rebuilt and run on film projector equipment.
Film opens panning across buildings in a Spanish harbor and shipyard. A submarine is seen under construction in the shipyard. Workers clamber over scaffolding and wooden framework as they assemble parts of the boat. Closeup of some heavy steel framework. Riveters at work. A mechanic adjusting gear machanism. View from below, of partially built submarine. Painters at work on hull. Scene switches to a Spanish Naval officer in a classroom, discussing naval tactics with use of models. Four naval officers listen as he lectures. Students use a device that gives them simulated view through a submarine periscope. Camera captures the images seen by the students. A submarine, displaying letters "GS" on its superstructure, moves away from the dock, with crew working on deck and Captain standing in conning tower platform. As it clears the dock, the name: "General Sanjurjo" is seen on its bow. (This boat was formerly the Italian "Torricelli.") View shifts to another submarine moving at fairly high speed as it departs the harbor with its crew standing in formations on its deck. This boat displays "GM" on its superstructure. (It is the "General Mola," formerly, the Italian "Archimede.")
View of a bridge under construction over a river. View of its huge pillars. From a German newsreel.
View of a Hydroelectric plant. Men descend from zigzag stairs. Officials inspect the plant. Water gushes out from the outflows of the dam. From a German newsreel.
German political leader gives a speech on stage. The Nazi swastika symbol in the background on stage. Huge crowd gathered to listen to a German dignitary 's speech.
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