Short World War II propaganda film 'Troop Train' about the role of railroad transportation of military divisions in the United States. Men, tanks, troops, Jeeps and guns are moved to the battlefronts. A man talks over a phone. A sign: 'Clear the Tracks'. Transportation system in Washington. Men work in an office. A sign on a door : 'Transportation Corps'. Men talk over a phone. A sign on a door: 'Chief of Staff, Army Ground Forces'. Officers sitting around a conference table. A man speaks about the movement of 201st Armored Division by train. Army vehicles driven on a road. A train arrives.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) headquarter installations in Algiers, Algeria during World War II. An officer enters through the main gates of the headquarters. Major Holocomb, Executive Officer Major Pfleiger, Chief of Mission Colonel Edward Glavin and Lieutenant Colonel Russell Livermore talk to each other. U.S. soldiers, tents and military vehicles at the headquarters. Two officers talk to each other.
A U.S. Army parachute training center in Algiers, Algeria during World War II. Paratroopers jump from a U.S. Army Air Force aircraft. The paratroopers descend from the aircraft. An aircraft taxis at a cargo drop training center. Aircraft drop parachute supplies over a field.
United States OSS (Office of Strategic Services) Operational Group's assistance in helping to organize and coordinate partisan activities in Italy during Cayuga Mission of World War II. In support of Italian anti-fascists and anti-Nazi Germany, U.S. Army Air Force aircraft drop parachute supplies for Italian partisans on snow-covered fields.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) SI (Secret Intelligence) operations against Axis Powers in the European Theater during World War II. An SI agent washes a paper with 'Eagle atop Swastika' Nazi symbol of Hitler's Third Reich in Germany. The officer pours a solution and places the paper in a surgical tray. He fixes the paper on a cardboard and further examines it.
Public service announcement to be shown to American citizens going to move theaters during World War II. U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services, precursor to Central Intelligence Agency or CIA) headed by Colonel William Joseph Donovan asks the public to send in vacation photographs taken abroad. Narrator explains that photos of overseas ports, docks, railroads, and places of strategic importance in cities can be useful for the U.S. war effort (for intelligence and targeting purposes). Women workers remove pictures from mail sacks, view them for useful information, and sort them. Men examine images by magnifying glasses. Closeups of example photos are shown. Colonel L. E. Norris takes a look at photographs at his desk and holds up a card with his name and address. Narrator invites viewers to send photographs to Colonel Norris as a civilian contribution to the war effort and says, "it's one way you can help win the war."
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