The Fingerprint Recording Section at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC, during World War 2. Women fill and examine fingerprint cards. A sign reads 'Time is Short'. A man walks in and searches for cards. A woman examining Personal Identification cards with finger print. She thumbs through the cards. Stacks of cards on tables. Fingerprints on cards. Four women examine, sort and pile National Defense Program application cards. Women wear finger covers. A man places stacks of cards on a table. Two women examine cards on a table.
Printing Department at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC. Men work on multilith machines (duplicating machines). Paper stacks in the background. Multilith copy machines showing posters of wanted men with their pictures and finger prints. Wanted posters for World War 2 suspected German saboteurs and spies operating in the United States, including Walter Kappe, Joseph Schmidt, and Reinhold Rudolf Barth. All there suspects were, at the time, reportedly associated with the eight would-be Nazi saboteurs captured earlier in the summer in the Operation Pastorius case.
Printing Department at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC during World War 2. Men operate printing machines. A man stacks 1942 edition of "Police War Duties" booklets coming off printing press machine.
Recording messages at the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) Headquarters in Washington DC during World War 2. Two cryptographers seated at a desk in the laboratory. Stacks of books in the background. An alphabet roll on the desk. One cryptographer uses grids to decode a letter. The other records the decoded message. The first cryptographer holds up the grid. The coded letter. He places the grid onto the letter.
York street in Colombo, Ceylon, during World War 2. Trams run on tracks. Cars pass by. Locals pull hand rickshaws. Pedestrians on the street. A jewelry store at one corner. Local coolies build a wall in front of the Electrical Department Building for protection against air raids. Men and young boys lay cement bricks.
Sailors stripped to the waist, working in a triple 8 inch 55 caliber gun turret of the American Cruiser USS Chicago (CA-29) in the Southwest Pacific, during World War 2. They bring up and load 8-inch shell followed by gunpowder charges, for one of the three guns in the turret. After firing, they repeat the process. Closeup as they open the gun breech, insert a metal chute to guide the shell and follow it with two propellant charges. Interesting view looking upward from below the gun as the sailors repeat the process. They step back briefly, as the gun fires. Next, sailors are seen below deck, partially rolling shells into a lift and sending up to the gunners.
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