About a month after the end of World War 2, Airmen at the Headquarters, U.S. 20th Bomber Command, Guam, Marianas Islands, try their hand at movie making for fun. Numerous takes of airman's hand on control stick in cockpit of a P-51. The first is with a glove on. Others are barehanded. He manipulates the control stick and presses weapons firing buttons. In a different scene, a "pilot" sits in cockpit of a dented P-51 and with help of contrived background appears to be flying. He acts somewhat bewildered.
People work in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, United States. Women technicians adjust an early computer known as the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC. They talk while working. A woman technician at the controls and another woman instructs reading from a note book. Women load computer punch cards into card reading machines.
People work in the Moore School of Electrical Engineering in Pennsylvania, United States. Wires come out of a control panel. Numbered Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) of the control panel glow. Technicians point to the glowing LEDs. A woman technician looks at a machine. A woman near a printing machine. She detaches a paper and takes it away.
Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, United States. John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert stand and talk in front of the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, also known as ENIAC, their invention. A woman technician hands over paper results. Readings are taken from a meter on the control panel of the early computer (the first electronic, general purpose, programmable digital computer). A technician attaches equipment to a control panel. A woman works on a terminal interface while a man checks results using an abacus. Numbers are observed as they light on a display.
A Landing Craft Infantry underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. View of a island. A man sucks lemon. A Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) passes. A man handles lines on a LCI deck. Men stand on forecastle of a LCI staring at the island. Men work on the LCI. A LCI underway. A United States Navy OS2U Kingfisher aircraft fly overhead. Island in the background. 20mm gun crew on forecastle of LCI fire on the island.
A Landing Craft Infantry underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Landing Craft Infantry (LCIs) underway. A LCI underway as it fires at an island in the background. Smoke rises from the LCI. 20 mm gun crew aboard the LCI. A man observes island through binoculars.
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