The War Department in Washington DC during World War II. Soldiers on guard at the entrance. Officials enter the building. 'War Department' inscribed on the building. A guard salutes as an officer walks in. Marines and soldiers on guard at a truck entrance between the Army and Navy Departments. Cars pass through the gates. Officers and employees exit the Munitions Department. Soldiers stand guard at the entrance. A soldier with his rifle.
The Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002, United States) on the National Mall in Washington DC. Women climb up the steps of the Memorial. Men and women look at the sculpture of Abraham Lincoln seated on a throne. The dedication above the sculpture. Soldiers stand guard on the Arlington Memorial Bridge. Cars pass by. Helmet clad soldier with his rifle. A soldier patrols the Bridge. Potomac River and the city in the background. (World War II period).
A morning in Washington DC, United States. American flags grouped in various places. Flags at the entrance of a building. A sign for 'Jelleff's' on a building in the background. Flags on other buildings. A flag on a post atop a building.
A U.S. Naval supply ship at the pier in Alameda, San Francisco Bay, during World War 2. American sailors aboard the ship. Two men stand on the pier near the ship. Smoke emitted from a stack as the steamer leaves the pier. Hills in the background. Ship enters the Bay.
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.
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