Scenes of the town Tucson in Arizona, United States. Old houses and buildings in the town. Late 1930s cars driving on a road in Tucson and parked outside a building. The Mission San Xavier de Bac is shown. The Pima County Courthouse with old cars parked in front. Views of campus buildings at the University of Arizona. Students on the campus of the university. Construction workers building new brick buildings in Tucson. This is constrasted with view of a Mexican worker mixing clay and straw to make Adobe bricks. The man presses the mixture into forms to make large bricks or blocks. Mexican American children sit by the side and watch him work. 1930s era cars drive on the streets of Douglas Arizona. Mexican mariachi street musicians wearing sombreros play guitars and sing. A city parade (possibly in Phoenix) heads down a street with a marching band and men on horses. Women and children watch the parade. A rodeo event in Phoenix is shown with men on bucking broncos and bucking horses.
A forest service worker cuts and marks a tree for logging operations in Arizona, United States. Loggers cut down a large pine tree with a two man saw. The logs are loaded on a truck by heavy equipment loader. The logs are pushed off the back of the truck by a bulldozer. The logs are loaded in a train. Smoke rises from the locomotive engine of the train as it moves carrying large cut trees. Mountains in the background. A sawmill operation in Flagstaff, Arizona. Logs are brought to sawmills and dumped into a giant pool or pond area. Men with hooks move the logs up onto lifts that carry the logs into the saw mill. Men at the mill output side lift cut lumber off of the running belt track and stack it for pickup by a special lift machine that lifts the lumber bundles. Elevated view from a high ridge of the city of Flagstaff, Arizona. A woman and a child walk on a field with the mountains of the San Francisco Peaks rising in the background.
President Roosevelt presents the Crowell crest to the Hellenic Navy at Washington Navy Yards. Greek ambassadors respond. Greek sailors board the boat. Flag on the boat.
A Task Group of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet captures and tows a German Submarine (U-505) to Bermuda. Views of captured German crew members being rescued. Destroyer USS Pillsbury passing a line to the U.S. boarding party aboard the U-505, which then collides with the Pillsbury, damaging her hull, and must be cut loose. Because a destroyer appears unable to tow the sea laden submarine, the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) does so herself. Views of captured German crew members exercising and bathing on deck of the Guadalcanal. View of the U-505 flying the American flag and entering harbor in Bermuda, on June 19, 1944..
United States Navy training film on 'Disorientation Crashes'. Animated film describes disorientation and how instruments solve the problem when flying.
Shows activities aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific ocean as damaged planes return from a mission in World War II. United States soldiers looking towards the sky. They watch towards the sky through binoculars. Airplanes flying in the sky. A man waving signal boards towards the airplanes. A plane lands with one wheel. Another skids off the landing deck and hangs on the side of the ship. The third plane slides off the deck into the ocean, killing the pilot. Soldiers taking the pilot on stretcher. Cost of the plane and the pilot's training. Shows that a human life cannot be measured in dollars. Indicates that the mission of the civilians at home is to purchase war bonds.
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