Communication means and equipment maintained and used by the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War 2. Soldiers in a life boat use a hand cranked radio and an aircraft comes to rescue them. They wave at the aircraft. View of machines used for processing and printing V-Mail letters that are typed by machines and then delivered to soldiers. View of a soldier opening a small V-mail envelope and reading the note inside. Men and women work at various jobs in America in support of war production and war materiel. Men and women war production workers assembling various pieces of electronic equipment and radio devices. Men and women in large, busy clerical and administrative offices supporting typing and communications for the U.S. Army and military. Engineers work in a laboratory. A man loads a tube into a pneumatic message delivery system. Close up views of woman's hands on typewriter typing telegrams, letters, and messages. Women file clerks sort files. Technicians work on a telegraph machine. U.S. Army soldiers on a pole stringing communication wires. A soldier ties a wire on a tree. (World War II period).
Donald M. Nelson speaks from his desk in Washington DC. The Chairman of War Production Board Donald M. Nelson speaks for the need to speed up war effort to victory in World War II.
Fashions for war factory workers, as shown in Chicago. View of clothing styles for women factory workers involved in war production during World War 2. A woman shows a combination helmet and hair net. A woman shows her steel toe shoes and two other women step on the toes to show the strength. Women wearing pants and overalls. Women try on and model different uniforms and helmets, including a welding mask.
Howard Hughes speaks to a group of men at the Burbank airport in California, where a TWA Lockheed Constellation aircraft is preparing to take off on a public demonstration flight. A large group including members of the press board and the aircraft takes off. Interior scenes of the aircraft cabin during flight with passengers onboard.
Howard Hughes escorts a group of men around a Trans World Airline Lockheed Constellation aircraft in Burbank California. . Control panel in the plane's cockpit. Howard Hughes at the controls drinks from a cup. He flies the plane during this public demonstration flight. Plane in flight and its engines and mountains outside visible through window.. Passengers take notes.
Howard Hughes speaks to a group of men at the Burbank airport in California, where the TWA Lockheed Constellation aircraft is preparing to take off on a public demonstration flight.. Members of the press board and the aircraft takes off. Plane in flight and passengers inside the plane.
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