United States LVT-N-2 Loon 777 and 785 missiles prepared and launched in United States. Hangar door opens aboard a vessel. Rails between hangar and launching ramp lay. Men remove missile wings and Loon 785 taken out of the hangar. Men install wing spars and make other preparations before launching the missile. Air spark, control circuit and rocket squib tested. Loon ready to be launched aboard United States Navy submarine Cusk. Missile takes off. While in flight a part of missile detaches and falls into the ocean. Cusk crash dives in water after the launching of the Loon missile.
An ordnance factory in United States. Workers of an ordnance factory arrive for work in war production jobs in the United States early in World War 2. A guard on the gate of the factory checks a woman's bag. Men and women war production workers walk into the factory.
War materiel production: Manufacturing of ordnance in United States early in World War 2. Workers mine shells as they work on a machine at an ordnance factory. War production worker removes gun shells from a machine. Shells lined up on a factory conveyor belt and move forward. Man inspects the shells as he places them on an instrument and a meter shows a reading. A man attaches nose of the shells after they have been armed. Shells piled up in trolleys as men push them.
War production in the U.S. early in World War 2. Manufacturing of ordnance war materiel in United States. Metal gun barrels piled up in trolleys on factory floor of an ordnance factory. In background, machinists are seen turning gun barrels on a lathe. A worker removes a barrel from those on a trolley, inspects it and places it back in the trolley. Men push trolley carts loaded with gun barrels.
Manufacturing of searchlights in United States early in World War 2. Men work on parts of a searchlight at a war production ordnance factory. Components of search light assembled by workers. Searchlight tested. A man sights through a pair of binoculars as searchlight glows in the background.
United States Ships en route to France during World War I. Allied Curtiss HS-2L seaplanes in flight as they escort a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Aircraft in flight.
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