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America fully mobilized in World War II

Opening slate announces 11 million Americans to bear arms (in World War 2.). U.S. Army Chief of Staff, General George S. Marshall conversing with Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Ernest King. Next, Admiral King is seen standing with Commanding General of the U.S. Army Air Forces, Lieutenant General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, and Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the President of the United States. Scene shifts to a graduating class of cadets from the United States Military Academy, at West Point. They are seen receiving their diplomas. West Point cadets are also seen cheering at an athletic event and in several views of them marching in formations on different occasions. Views of cadets from the U.S. Naval Academy, at Annapolis, Maryland, on parade and at a graduation ceremony in Dahlgren Hall, where each receives a diploma and they toss their hats into the air at the end of the ceremony. Next, ordinary citizen soldiers (mostly draftees) are seen marching in formation They participate in calisthenics en masse. Heavyweight boxing champion, Gene Tunney, is seen leading an exercise session. Soldiers run over an obstacle. Next cadets are seen on parade in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, at Kings Point, New York. Some cadets are seen practicing escape from a burning vessel at sea. U.S. soldiers engage in field training that includes live weapons fire above their heads as they crawl under barbed wire on a training course. View of soldier firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun near the trainees. Another is firing a Browning M1919 air-cooled machine gun.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051749
U.S. Army Air Corps 57th Fighter Group P-47 aircraft perform variety of flight maneuvers during World War II

Three P-47s of the U.S. Army Air Corps 66th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, raise dust as they take off from Alto Air Base in Corsica,France, during World War 2. Pilot seen in bubble canopy of late model P-47D, named "Halliburtons Hellion" of the 64th Fighter Squadron, during flight over water. Flights of P-47s in formation maneuvers. A Squadron of P-47s in formation overhead. One P-47 dives. View over P-47 in flight over hilly terrain in Italy. View from a P-47 flying very low over some people with a small truck, examining destroyed vehicles and equipment on the ground

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051900
Commanding Officer asks depot workers to work overtime for supplies loaded for a convoy departure, United States.

United States Naval intelligence obtains information that submarines are heading towards a projected convoy route. The port Commander advances the departure time. Army Service Depot in view. Supplies and goods in the depot to supply U.S. soldiers with necessary supplies during World War 2. People work in the depot. Supplies loaded, tested, cataloged and stored. Women operate radio. The port Commanding Officer asks depot workers to work overtime. The workers load supplies. The code given to them for the operation is code '0000'. The supplies arranged efficiently. Ambulances parked. Equipment, bulldozers, weapons, food material, dresses, medical supplies, tea, coffee, salt, sugar, gasoline, parachutes, medical supplies and telephone equipment loaded. 'Field ration D' written on several boxes. The consignment loaded in railroad cars.

Date: 1943
Duration: 7 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053519
David Ben Gurion addresses World Zionist Conference in London, England

World Zionist Conference in London, England, following World War 2. Chairman of the Jewish Agency, David Ben Gurion, addresses conference attendees. Audience seated on wooden chairs. Ben Gurion notes that Zionists from all over the world are in attendance. He praises the Jewish soldiers who participated in the war that ended with victory over tyranny. But he decries the homelessness and statelessness of Jewish people, and calls for the establishment of a free Jewish Commonwealth in Israel. Audience applauds. D Stephen Wiss in the audience.Camera pans audience, showing persons attending the conference. Some participants appear to be sitting at school desks, with documents on them. A sign reads 'World Zionist Conference'.

Date: 1945, August 2
Duration: 6 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675053901
President Roosevelt's address during the dedication of Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

During World War 2, the new Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland is dedicated by the Naval Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (NBMS ) on its 100th anniversary. New hospital building. Guards out front marching. Patients on hospital beds. Pharmacists in a sterilization chamber. A nurse at work with equipment. A group of doctors in an operation theater performs a surgery on a patient. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrives at the hospital in a chauffeur driven motor carriage with other personnel to address the patients on the occasion. Patients in wheel chairs with their attendants. A large gathering of doctors, nurses and other staff and patients of the hospital outside the hospital building. President Roosevelt addresses the gathering. He says that there is a national shortage of doctors and nurses. Medical, surgical and nursing care should be given to every civilian. To allow use of medical staff for the war effort, he also cautions Americans to be cautious and safe, citing those civilians who drive recklessly and those who do not take preventive measures in industrial plants.

Date: 1942, October
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054680
U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower, Archbishop of Canterbury, other officials tour Ohrdruf concentration camp after its liberation

U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other officials in the liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany near end of World War 2 in Europe. U.S. military officials enter the gates of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. The officials walk on a path inside the camp. U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower with other officials inside the camp. Inmates who had survived in the camp demonstrate a torture device where they are stretched across a wooden platform. General Eisenhower and officials watch. The ground covered with the dead bodies in some areas. Arch Bishop of Canterbury and other church dignitaries visit the camp and inspect. The civilians of the Allied Investigation Commission inspect the camp. The officers walk in front of the camp. They visit the dungeons, crematories, and there is a sign beside a rack of bunks: "5 men with operations in each box". Dead bodies of concentration camp victims piled up. The group of officials view. The officials inside the dungeons with piles of dead bodies of human beings. The remains of the bodies in an enclosure where they were burned in furnaces. The officials stand outside the enclosure.

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 1 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054780