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ASF Commanding General Brehon Somervell speaking about the problem of substitution and conversion of needed World War 2 supplies

Production of supplies for American soldiers during World War II. Commanding General of Army Service Forces( ASF ) Brehon B. Somervell seated at a desk in his office in the United States. He explains the serious problem of substitution and conversion and what is being done by American science to meet these needs. Somervell states that he is issuing an order: A command to think along new lines regarding every product essential to the war. He asks: 1) Can it be made as well of some less critical material; 2) Can it be made better, faster, or in greater quantity by some other method of production? He calls on viewers to draw on the brains and ingenuity. View of ordnance insignia. Interior of an office. An officer and a draftsman examine a machine gun. Exhibit of mannequins wearing uniforms with supplies for soldiers and nurses. Miniature tents and kitchen equipment. An officer and executives from two rubber production companies check synthetic rubber and collaborate on improvements. Radio engineers at work in front of equipment checking new type equipment. Workers weighing equipment and finding ways to make needed supplies lighter in weight. Chemical warfare officers at work. A soldier with a new plastic gas mask comes out of a room. Medical and other industry leaders around a conference table. Men gathered around tables planning improvements. Workers entering a large aircraft production factory. A man places a paper in a suggestion box labeled "ideas for increasing production."

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076711
U.S. troops of the AEF entrenched in France during World War I.

U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on their way to the front lines during World War 1. They descend a stairway beneath damaged bridge and proceed through a town. One soldier slogs into a trench filled with debris, mud, and water. Then more troops work to clear it of mud. One soldier smoking a cigar as he reads a letter from home. He has some care packages at his feet in brown paper wrapping. A view across No Man's Land, where Germans hold a hill nearby. U.S. soldier uses a periscope to look at the area. Closeup of the soldier and periscope. Other views of the U.S. troops in the trenches. One using a pair of binoculars. View of the German-held hill across No Man's Land. Barbed wire and obstacles outside the trench. Army cooks working at a field kitchen under camouflage nets. A cook stirs soup, stew, or a hot drink in large vats of a portable, wheeled kitchen. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076712
U.S. soldiers cooking and eating food in a trench on the Western Front during World War I.

U.S. soldiers on the Western Front during World War I. Soldiers in a trench. A cart arrives nearby. The soldiers unload cans from the cart. They cook food. The soldiers seated in the trench and eating food. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 31 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076713
U.S. artillerymen of the AEF passing through a town in France on the way to the front in World War I

U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) passing through a French town on their war to the front during World War 1. Mounted Artillerymen accompany horse-drawn caissons and artillery pieces. View through archway of town building shows canvas covered Army wagons moving through the town.Teachers and school children watch as the American troops pass on a roadway.Closeup of the children waving at the soldiers. The artillerymen passing through a village. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076714
U.S. soldiers firing anti-aircraft artillery at German aircraft in flight overhead in the Western Front.

U.S. soldiers on the Western Front during World War I. German aircraft in flight overhead. A soldier watching the aircraft through binoculars. Other soldiers firing anti-aircraft guns at the aircraft. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076715
U.S. soldiers under gas attack in France during World War I

A U.S. soldier of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) standing near a hut, hears a gas alarm and dons his gas mask. View of a U.S. camp with huts. The soldiers assemble in response the the alarm and all don gas masks. They run up a hill. View from a trench, at a tree, line of gas shells exploding in a field. Soldiers crawling across the trench. Gas drifting across the tree line and soldiers walking through the area. Camera pans across the wooded area, showing the tops of most trees blown away and many trunks laying on the ground. Two couriers carrying messages run through the drifting gas. Scene shifts to a field hospital dug into a hillside. Several soldiers sit on benches. Two medical corpsmen carry a wounded soldier out of the hospital, on a stretcher. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076716