U.S. Army troops disembark from USS Wakefield in the United States during World War II. The troops disembark with their luggage. Officers plan for the designs of the ship. The troops board the ship. German prisoners of war (POWs) stand near the railings on the deck. The German prisoners stand near a mess table and eat food. German prisoners wearing uniforms with iron cross and Luftwaffe insignia. The prisoners standing on the deck look towards an airship while it is in flight. The ship underway at sea. USS Wakefield arrives at a port in the United States. The troops disembark from the ship.
Hollywood film personalities aid a U.S. defense bond drive in Atlanta, Georgia. Troops and celebrities parade in the streets for the National Defense Bond Drive. Parade passes along Peachtree Street at Walton Street in Atlanta. Dick Powell, Piper Laurie, Tony Curtis and 'Francis' the talking mule take part in Defense Bond drive kick-off. Later, at the Atlantic Steel Mill, workers stand outside the Mill plant and greet Hollywood celebrities. U.S. Secretary of the Treasury is also present and reviews a large bulletin board displaying the Workers Payroll Savings Bond Record. Piper Laurie congratulates mill worker Earl Black on his contributions to the Bond fund. A young girl sits and smiles holding a poster that says, "Now let's all buy bonds."
Second Class Midshipmen launch their flight training with a descent into a pool in a Dilbert Dunker at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annaolis, Maryland. A ditching course for training the pilots to learn how to correctly escape a submerged airplane. The Dilbert Dunker descends into a pool. A pilot seated in the Dilbert Dunker. He gets it out and swims.
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur testifies on the Pacific crisis in front of a senate war committee in Washington. General MacArthur arrives at the Senate Building for the opening of Joint Military Affairs and Foreign Affairs Committee session. Exterior of the building and cars parked outside the building. Officers carry a map in the session room. General Mac Arthur is greeted by U.S. Vice President Alben W. Barkley and Senator Charles William Tobey. Cameramen click photographs. The session is held behind closed doors and security guards stand guard outside the door. The session is exercised and newsmen prepare for publishing the news about the session. General MacArthur leaves the session.
Animated diagrams show fly as a disease carrier in the United States. Animated drawings of a fly. Garbage in a dustbin shows that flies breed in filth, resort to the filth and carry filth wherever they go. Drawings show the disease carrying parts of a fly including the proboscis, the intestinal tract and the feet. Microscopic views of feet show that they are equipped with claws and pads covered with sticky hair. Flies sitting on flask, 6 feather dusters and 12 damp sponges collect dirt and germs. A fly is caught and is put on a culture plate. The fly moves on the culture plate. A fly sits on a plate of food. Bacteria grow from germs planted on the culture plate by the fly.
Animated diagrams about sanitation and disease show the fly insect as a disease carrier in the United States. Animated diagram gives an idea of the places from which flies pick up and later distribute filth. These places are: horse stables, manure piles, milk pails, cow barns and pig pen. From these places they move to dwelling houses, kitchens and on food which causes diseases. Manure piles shown.
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