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Aftermath of German aerial bombing in Paris, France (WW2)
Aftermath of aerial bombing of Paris before the surrender of the city to German forces in World War 2. Thick clouds of smoke cover a burning suburb in Paris. Fire in the backyard of a house. Dead cattle lying on their sides. A modern brick apartment with damaged façade. Remains of cars bodies after bombing. Dashboard and wheel of burned car after German bombings. A street with damaged buildings, including a creperie. A destroyed corner shop, with cans of foodstuff still on shelves. Body of a burning truck. Apartments partially destroyed from bombing. Rubble and remains of a partially destroyed façade. Water flowing from water pipes of a bombed building. A burning truck, outside a Metro station entrance. A traffic barrier with the skulls and crossbones symbol, denoting danger. Smoke emanates from destroyed building façade.
Deployed Canadian soldiers spend time on board ship to Europe (WW2)
Canada deploys its army to fight in Europe during World War 2. Ships leave Canada carrying the 1st Battalion of The Hastings and the Prince Edward Regiment of the Canadian Army heading for London, United Kingdom. Canadian soldiers marching on deck. Canadian soldiers wear their life vests. Canadian soldiers play games on deck, including shuffleboard. Canadian soldiers wave at the camera on deck. Canadian soldiers march on the streets of London after disembarking from ships. Canadian soldiers marching by the Palace of Westminster and the Big Ben. Canadian soldiers enter the Buckingham Palace gates as they are being watched by onlookers. Queen Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the wife of King George VI, watches the Canadian soldiers’ arrival from a balcony. Canadian troops stand in attention. King George VI of the United Kingdom salutes to troops. Canadian soldiers leave the Buckingham Palace. Onlookers outside the Buckingham Palace. A Canadian soldier marches away.
Scrap metal used in steel production to manufacture war materiel in the United States (WW2)
Naval artillery firing from warships during World War 2. Artillery fire during nighttime. A thick smoke from a battered ship after a naval battle. Smokestacks of a factory. View of a steel plant. Carts of scrap metal being brought to a steel plant. A horizontal charging machine empties boxes of metal and scrap into the furnace. Molten metal inside factory foundry ladles. Molten metal pours from ladle. A war production worker in steel factory. Coal burning in foundry furnace. A worker operates a machine to lift mold from newly cast blooms. Hot slabs of steel roll and take shape on factory assembly line. War Production Board headquarters in Washington DC. Chairman of the War Production Board, Donald Nelson, speaks about the importance of steel production to meet increasing war demands. “We must have a continuing flow of scrap in order to keep steel production at the level needed to meet our war requirements”, says Donald Nelson.
Men building ships and making artillery shells (WW2)
Shipbuilding and shell production in the United States during World War 2. Men on scaffold work on a ship in dry dock. Man applies white paint to mark decking. Man takes out a molten metal from foundry furnace. Man working a shell casing on a lathe. Man operating a drilling rig moves shell casings. A group of shells are carted away. Men working on molten steel furnace and casting shells. Men arranging newly made shells.
Shipment of war materiel from U.S. ports, scrap metal collection (WW2)
War materiel and construction items to be shipped to United States soldiers and Allied nations fighting during World War 2. Stacks of metal frames in port. Rolls of chain link. Men arrange stacks of rolled barbed wire. Light tanks on flatbed rail cars readied for transport. Men load fuel steel drums into train box cars. Men drive Ford GPA "amphibious jeeps" onto train platform. Jeeps, artillery and war materiel on docks. A field gun is lowered to a ship by a crane. Sign says “Iron SCRAP Steel”. A crane moves a box of scrap metal. Man shears scrap metal. A wrecking ball falls, breaking scrap metal. Men performing use cutting torches and chains inside a factory to break down scrap metal. An obsolete WWI tank is carried by a crane and lowered onto a pile of other WW1 scrapped military equipment. Man uses cutting torch to dismantle a very large artillery cannon. Junkyard magnet crane unloads two obsolete shells onto scrap metal pile.
Naval guns and torpedoes manufactured, USS Wisconsin launched (WW2)
Steel used for ship building and war materiel manufacture in the United States during World War 2. Shipbuilding at a dock. Sign says “U.S. Naval Advance Base Depot”. A steam locomotive pulls a 16 inch naval gun from a war production factory. Men move newly made Navy torpedo via overhead conveyor. Men building torpedoes in a factory. A huge engine is being lifted by an overhead crane. War production workers on factory floor building items for U.S. Navy. A United States Naval officer speaks with a factory executive. Narrator mentions importance of scrap metal for use in ship building. The launching of the Iowa-class battleship, USS Wisconsin (BB-64), in the Philadelphia Navy Yard on December 7, 1943. Assisted by Rear Admiral Melo F. Draemel, Mrs. Margaret Roche-Goodland, wife of Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland, successfully breaks a bottle of champagne over the ship's bow. The USS Wisconsin starts down the dry dock during launch.
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