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Production of a World War II U.S. light cruiser in United States.

Film titled 'Your Ship in Action' shows production of U.S. cruisers in United States that were used during World War II. U.S. light cruiser underway. Production of a ship in shipyard with men at work. Welder at work. Ship in the building area. Christening and launching ceremony for the ship. Ship slides in water from a building area. Commissioning of ship shows sailors stand in formation. Captain of ship speaks at a microphone.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060334
Swimming methods used by Axis in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces during World War 2

Dramatization of methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces in World War II. Method of attack shows different kinds of clothing worn by swimmer. Swimmers swim in water. Method of attacking a ship shows swimmer with camouflaged face comes close to a ship and removes his mask and puts on a nose clip. Swimmer then goes underwater.

Date: 1945, October
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060339
Construction of U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in the United States to carry out combat operations during World War II.

Film titled 'Combat Report' depicts the construction of U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft to attack German submarine during World War II. Exteriors of U.S. War Department building in Washington D.C., United States. U.S. Assistant Secretary of War for air Robert Lovett and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson seated at desk. U.S. officer looks at combat report at his desk. View of a oil tanker hit by torpedo as it sinks in the Gulf of Mexico. View of crewman at controls and a tower. Combat report being typed. U.S. sailors type report at typewriters. Man speaks into radio. Navy officer instructs an officer. U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight over sea. Pilot and copilot at controls in B-25. The position of attack being radioed to a U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in flight over sea. Interior views of cockpit of B-25 bomber, and of Instrument panel of B-25. Engine of planes. Men in war production aircraft factory at work building and assembling aircraft during World War 2. Blast furnace in factory. The airplane engines being assembled, tested and installed in B-25.

Date: 1942
Duration: 5 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060474
Construction of U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft in factories of the United States during World War II.

Dramatization in which U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 Mitchell bomber aircraft is constructed in the United States for combat operations during World War II. B-25 in flight over the Gulf of Mexico. Shows different sections of B-25 in flight. Factories in the United States where B-25 is shaped and skins are developed. Women workers inspect altimeters and other aircraft instruments.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060475
American citizens gather around living room console radios and portable radios in other locations, listening to news.

Multiple scenes of groups of people in the United States gathered around radios, listening. Timing is conclusion of labor strike by Coal Miners in the United States. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to a walkout of 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. First scene shows a family seated in a living room listening to the news on a large console radio. The men, young and old, share cigarettes and pipes and smoke while listening intently. Next scene is a bar or tavern and shows a group of men, presumably coal miners, gathered around a portable radio on the bar to listen to the news. Two large American flags hang in the bar. Several men are drinking beer. Next scene shows four men playing cards at a table while they listen to a portable radio on the table. Wall calendar page for December 1946 is on the wall behind them. Next scene shows three men gathered around a wood burning pot belly stove that is heating a room, as they listen to a portable radio. Final scene shows a man and a woman huddled close to a living room console radio as they listen.

Date: 1946, December 7
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675060480
U.S. Chief of Chemical Warfare General William N. Porter directs the establishment of tropical chemical warfare tests.

An introduction of chemical warfare tests to be carried out by the U.S. Army on San Jose Island, Panama during World War II . U.S. troops test chemical warfare in a jungle. Rocket artillery is fired. Rockets explode. U.S. Chief of Chemical Warfare General William N. Porter during an initial conference with two other U.S. officers in the United States. General Porter directs the establishment of tropical chemical warfare tests on San Jose Island. British, Canadian, U.S. Marine and U.S. Navy officers attend various conferences. U.S. NDRC (National Defense Research Committee) scientists and technicians in front of charts and various instruments. The technicians carry out chemical tests. A scientist during a laboratory testing. The technicians at various instruments in a jungle during a testing phase.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675060514