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American women working at shipyards and factories in support of the war effort (WW2)

United States Employment Service helps find jobs to women during World War II. The government agency also arranges training programs for the women war production workers. Women workers in the shipyards repairing the parts of the battleships and making equipment for battleships. Women tighten nuts on ship body with large wrenches. Women tossing rivet materials to other women workers. Women building ships. They are asked why they are doing that work. They respond that their family members are in army, and they want to work with them. The United States Employment Service recruits female workers for the war work. View of offices and clerical workers helping to place workers for the war effort.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028454
How American women contributed to U.S. war efforts during World War II as well as World War I

Film begins showing women looking at a bulletin board advertising free war training classes, during World War 2. Women are seen in a classroom learning to be quality control inspectors in factories. Their instructor uses a large-scale model of a micrometer to illustrate its use. A giant slide rule is mounted on the wall in the background. Women are shown working in an aircraft factory drafting room, preparing drawings for parts. Scene changes to women war production workers being trained as welders. A woman is seen teaching another to operate a drill press. Another woman is being trained to us a metal turning lathe in a machine shop. An employee patch on her right shoulder reads: "Bendix Aviation." Next, a woman is seen guiding a DC-3 commercial airplane into its parking place on an airport. A crew of women works to clean and maintain commercial aircraft in a hangar. Another crew of women climbs aboard a steam locomotive to clean and otherwise maintain it. A woman working as a commercial bus driver, picks up a passenger. Women serving in a messenger service company. A woman running an elevator in an office building. A woman making milk deliveries to a home. Women driving tractors on the large farms of the Midwest. Others run a harvester pulled by a team of 20 mules. A few men express reservations about the ability of women to work outside the home while still caring for families. Complete change of scene shows newsreels from World War 1 with men in uniforms marching. Nurses served overseas at base hospitals. But teams of women also supplemented for missing men in other occupations. One scene shows them shoveling debris into railroad open cars. Another showed women working in a lumber yard and also plowing fields on a farm. So-called Yeomanettes (World War I version of later era Waves) are seen on parade in uniform. Old newsreel shows U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, reviewing Yeomanettes, as his assistant Secretary, Franklin D. Roosevelt, converses with Vice Admiral William Sims. Film shifts back to World War II showing women in Army uniforms parading, glimpse of others who appear to be pilots. Film ends with montage of views seen earlier in the film.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028455
United States farmers sow potato crop in their farm, United States.

United States farmers work on their farms, United States. They sow potato crops in the farm. Men and women work and sow the crop. They use various planting machines for an increased yield. Tractors move on the farm. Farmers work overtime at night.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028522
Engineers lay oil pipeline and blast a river making way for the pipeline, United States.

Work on the 'Big Inch' pipe line in the United States. Engineers work and lay the oil pipeline. Engineers on small boats in the river. Vehicles pass along the sides of the river. Engineers plant dynamite in the river to make way for laying the pipeline. Explosion in the river. Splashes in water.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028524
Men examine sample of rubber produced in the World's largest rubber plant in the United States.

World's largest synthetic rubber plant in the United States. Men stand near a railway track. Men stand on a huge rubber tank. Exterior of the rubber factory. Workers stand in a line outside the factory. Interior of the factory and the production process of the synthetic rubber. Men examine sample of rubber produced.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028526
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, first lady of China reviews WAVES, SPARS and women marines of U.S. in United States.

Madame Chiang Kai-Shek reviews United States Women Army in the U.S. She is the first lady of China. She reviews the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), SPARS (United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve) and women marines. They salute the dignitary and march in front of her. An officer near the dignitary discusses with her.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028527
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