A film on the workings of the Air Force Service Group. Their role in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied and in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment during World War II is demonstrated. A diagram depicts the workings of an Air Service Center. The center is a nine men team. Each man is an expert in some field. The functions of the center are explained. The center handles the supplies, repairing of vehicles and equipment and communication to and from the center. Men seated outside a tent in the center. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Men looking at the airplanes. Men working for the center are motor experts, electrical experts and parachute experts. Medical services are also provided at the center. A man stands holding a rifle. A special light mobile unit is also shown as it works to repair or salvage parts of an aircraft at its crash site. U.S. Army soldiers at the Air Service Center line up to receive pay on pay day. A canteen area is shown where soldiers can buy coca-cola and other refreshments. P-40 Warhawk aircraft parked on a field. A chaplain conducts a religious service for soldiers, with a Mitchell B-25 bomber aircraft parked behind him. A wounded soldier being unloaded from an airplane and treated by the medics who arrive on site. A mobile surgical team prepares a soldier for surgery in the field.
A film on the workings of Air Force Service Group. Their role in keeping remote air force landing strips supplied and in repairing and salvaging damaged airplanes and equipment during World War II is demonstrated. A small airplane in flight low overhead and it drops a parachute with important aerial reconnaissance photographs to an Air Service Center. Soldiers process the photographs. Other soldiers look at the photographs. Soldiers repairing a break in a field wire. A soldier keeps a watch for the enemy. Messages are send in the field with the help of the field wire and an encoding machine. Other soldiers after receiving messages typing them and decoding them. An officer looking at a document. Resources of the center are mobilized. A soldier talking over a phone. U.S. Army Ordnance Company soldiers loading and packing 50 caliber ammunition belts and loading them into boxes. The boxes are loaded in trucks.
Battle between American and German troops on the Western Front during World War II. German SS General Sepp Dietrich confers with officers at the front line. German troops on bicycles are given newspapers which point to Eisenhower campaign. Sign in German, "feindeinsicht wirble keinen staub auf sonst kriegst du eins aufs dach draue" warns of keeping dust down to avoid detection by enemy. Soldiers marching on the battlefield. German troops move through woods, fire rocket launchers, flame throwers and hand grenades during an attack on American tanks after signal from officer firing signal flare. German soldier camouflages helmet with a fern branch. Smoke rises from firing and bombardment on the battlefield. American tanks passing through an opening in a wooded sector. German troops engage in a battle and knock out several American Sherman tanks firing Panzerschreck and deploying a Goliath tracked mine, or beetle tank (or German robot tank). U.S. prisoners of war are taken by the Germans. View of captured U.S. prisoners. Some prisoners cover their faces.
U.S. Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson in his office in Washington during World War II. Stimson seated at his desk. He holds a document.
Animated film on characteristics of U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2. Propaganda film depicts positive characteristics of the soldiers. They are compared to other people. They are taller and weigh more than other people. They know more about maps and compasses. They shoot more accurately with rifles. They have more fire power than others. They also know more about arrangement of beds than the average housewife.
A film on problems of military supply. Animation shows a shell being fired at a target board. Production of shells and guns in a factory in the United States. They are loaded in a train and the train moving on a railway track. Then they are carried by ships. They are loaded in an airplane and the airplane in flight overhead. They are then carried by trucks and finally by mules to a battlefield. The soldiers then are able to use the ammunition. (World War II period).
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