German troops surrender in Milan, Italy during World War II. U.S. Army 91st Recon vehicles parked in front of La Scala opera house (Teatro alla Scala, Via Filodrammatici, 2, 20121 Milano MI, Italy) being mobbed by civilians. Tank men seated atop vehicles as civilians talk to them. Crowds line up along the streets as U.S. tanks and infantrymen move past. Tanks in the streets. Smoke rises in the background.
A public service announcement or PSA after World War 2, targeted at U.S. military veterans. Narrator communicates how to correspond properly by mail when contacting the Veterans Administration. He encourages veterans to visit their local Veterans Administration office to get answers to questions when possible, rather than writing to the United States Veterans Administration. View of the central office of the Veterans Administration with a number of bags of postal mails and letters piled up. Stacks of letters received from veterans, at a rate of four million letters each month. Mails being sorted out by the staff. A veteran visits a local Veterans Administration office. Animation shows issues that the Veterans Administration cannot assist with, including housing, employment or jobs, and surplus property, and encourages that they contact other government agencies for help on those issues. They summarize problems of veterans that the Veterans Administration does look into like housing, jobs and employment, surplus military property, education, insurance and medical care. They encourage veterans to visit local Veterans Administration offices for answers and help.
"War Town" shows how War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of war workers at a shipyard in Mobile as they go to work building ships for the war effort in World War 2. Cranes at the shipyard. Men work at the shipyard as they fit Allied torpedoes. The men weld and rivet ship parts. Men work in various other factory and manufacturing industries like paper, aluminum, gypsum, steel, and machine shops supporting need for war material. Many men move out walking through the gates of the "Alabama Dry Dock and Ship Building Company" in Pinto Island, Mobile, Alabama. Many people in war materiel industry leads to congestion on roads and traffic on streets of Mobile. Crowd of workers on foot leaving manufacturing areas. Crowd of workers tries to board a city bus. Woman bus driver puts full bus in gear and drives away. Bus, car, and pedestrian traffic in Mobile on street corner with W.T. Grant Company in background. Long queues outside liquor stores, restaurants, and pay windows. Overcrowded schools as children exit the Barton Academy (Barton Academy Foundation P. O. Box 571 Mobile, Alabama 36601-0571) and are seen playing on playgrounds. Men drink in a crowded bar and men and women dance in a makeshift tented dance hall. Various rides including a Ferris wheel at an amusement park.
An Allied aircraft attacks German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 2. Gun Sight Aiming Point view of the German submarine or U boat underway at sea. The Allied plane attacks the U boat with machine gun. Multiple bullets seen hitting the water around the sub as it is attacked.
United States 2/503rd - Later the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion in North Africa during World War II. Fully equipped 509th PIB paratroopers climb into United States Army Air Force C-47 transport airplanes to land in Italy. Soldiers lift the nose of a glider and load a 105 mm howitzer into the front end. The nose of the glider being lowered. The soldiers load a jeep into the front end of the glider. The nose of the glider being lowered.
U.S. Army Air Services maneuvers of First Provisional Air Brigade at Wilbur Wright field in Dayton , Ohio. U.S. Army Air Services MB-2s come in for landing the Wilbur Wright airfield as they pass in review. Aircraft land and taxi on the field.
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