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Men aboard a DUKW don life jackets before it enters water in the United States.
A film on workings and general features of DUKWs in the United States. Precautions must be taken before a DUKW enters water. Tire pressure should be checked and hatches and other things should also be checked. Men aboard a DUKW. They don life jackets. The propeller of the DUKW. The truck enters water and moves. Men work on the truck. A cable is tied on the bow of the DUKW.
Men clean and check the lubrication of a DUKW in the United States.
A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Men aboard DUKWs underway at sea in the United States. They learn about navigation. Men discuss the course undertaken by the DUKWs. They don life preserver jackets. They head in for a landing. Traffic rules should be followed while driving a DUKW. The DUKWs move along a beach. They move in water. An officer addresses men at a beach. The men at work. They clean the DUKW. Lubrication is checked and rechecked.
Cargo handling aboard a DUKW underway at sea in the United States.
A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Soldiers aboard a DUKW underway at a sea in the United States. A ship underway in the foreground. Cargo handling aboard a DUKW. Cargo from a freighter is unloaded by A-frame and hog troughs. Cargo is unloaded from the ship onto the DUKW. The DUKW underway with the cargo. The amphibious truck beaches and moves across a wooded area. A man signals. Unloading activities being undertaken. A DUKW underway at sea near a ship. A truck moves along a field. Men stand nearby. (World War II period).
A DUKW is used to transport wounded from a shore to a ship in the United States.
A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Men carry wounded on stretchers in the United States. The wounded are loaded aboard a DUKW in a wooded area. The wounded on litters in the DUKW. The amphibious truck gets into water. It approaches a ship. The DUKW is carried onto the ship. Trucks move along a beach. Men stand at attention near parked DUKWs.
Women on the Warpath: American women working in B-24 Liberator aircraft factory during World War II
American women at work in war production jobs in the United States during World War 2. American women work for the war production to help the soldiers and to increase the manpower. Smoke from the chimneys of factories. Crane at a harbor. Exterior of an ammunition factory. U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators under construction in a factory. A woman types a document, seated at a desk. Other woman work along with her. Women in uniforms. Women wash cars. Women pumping gas at gas stations. Women work at farms. 3 planes fly in formation. Women watch the planes in flight. Cars arrive outside a building. Women exit the cars. They work in the aircraft factory. Men work in the factory. Woman work along with them. A poster reads: 'Women in the war'. Women being instructed about the engine of the aircraft. They work on different parts of the plane. They work on a tiny equipment. Men serve food to women. Women seated at table as they eat food. Other women work on the tail section of the aircraft. The planes ready to be tested as they are parked outside the factory. A plane taxis on the airfield. Planes fly in formation.
American industry focuses on defense and war materiel production during World War II
Film opens showing smoke pouring from industrial smoke stacks in American manufacturing plants, during World War 2. Sparks fly from crucible of molten steel. Steel workers silhouetted against fog as they leave on a shift change. Men tapping an open hearth furnace in a steel mill. Hot steel being poured in Crucibles and then into steel containers on rails. Huge overhead cranes moving in a mill. A Bessemer converter furnace tilted and blowing with flames extended from its mouth. (A smoke ring leaves the converter.) Various views of activities in steel mills with flaming steel involved and processing such as extrusion and forging taking place. Closeups of hardworking steel workers handling white hot steel ingots. Sheets of aluminum being processed in rolling mills and then inspected. Scene shifts to an oil field with numerous derricks and then to a refinery, with 10 tall smoke stacks, where crude oil is made into gasoline. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville, Boulder, and the Tennessee Valley, where hydroelectric power is produced. Churning waters being discharged through dam spillways. Huge number of men and women war factory workers seen in a shift change at a war production plant. Closeup of machines producing small arms and ammunition. A woman war production worker assembling an M1 Garand rifle. Others working on Browning 30 caliber M1919 machine guns and Browining Model 1917A1 water-cooled machine guns. Belts of machine gun ammunition being boxed for shipment. Shops where torpedoes, shells and bombs are machined. A worker checking out movement of a 40-mm Automatic Gun M1. Field artillery pieces covered outside a war plant. A 14 inch barrel, for a coastal gun or Navy ship, seen suspended from an overhead crane in a factory. Views of various such barrels including a view through one. Elements of mobile weapons being assembled. Jeeps being assembled and driven out of a factory at the rate of one per minute and temporarily stored in a yard. Special machinery grinding gears and other parts. Arc welders at work on weapons. M4A1 Sherman medium tanks being manufactured. View in factory of M3 Lee medium tanks being assembled. Rear view of one being fitted with its treads. Others are seen suspended from overhead crane.
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