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Dayton, Ohio plans to increase the number of persons employed in its war plants (WW2)
Film opens showing large factory building with all its lights on at night. Smoke stacks at industrial plant emitting white smoke against dark sky. Sparks flying outdoors from a steel plant at night. War production workers inside a fabricating plant drawing a ribbon of hot steel from a roller and dragging a newly made sheet of metal across the floor. Two men with shovels stoking a furnace. Men shaping parts on forging machines. A group of men using sledge hammers to drive down pipe supports under a large piece of sheet metal. Women employees at work inspecting U.S. Army helmets on an assembly line. Workers in a crowded machine shop. A sign reading: "500 workers needed NOW Training on the job." A display of job recruitment announcements in newspapers. A room full of idle manufacturing machinery (ostensibly due to labor shortages). Sign on iron fence outside a building, reads: "Essential WAR WORK Day or Night Men and Women" and "We have a war job for you. Apply here." Some more similar signs. Animated chart of Labor Needs with Labor supply lagging behind, superimposed on a drawing of a defense plant. Map of the USA highlighting areas of industrial might where labor shortages exist. Camera zooms in on Dayton, Ohio on the map. Aerial views all over the city of Dayton, Ohio. View from a tall building overlooking a major Dayton commercial street. The Gem City Savings building, with clock tower on top, at the corner of Third and Main streets. On April 7, 1943, two hundred leading citizens of Dayton are seen attending a meeting at which Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, is speaking. He speaks about the danger of Dayton falling behind its war production goals because of manpower difficulties. View of the audience, which includes several military officers in uniform. Allyn speaks of the potential for war work being moved elsewhere because of this, and challenges Dayton's leaders to solve the problem without requiring action from Washington. Next, an emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. In final scene, Stanley Allyn is seen at the head of the table, speaking to the group. He outlines three ways to obtain more war workers from the Dayton population during World War II.
P-38 aircraft of the U.S. Army 13th Air Force demonstrate their speed and maneuverability
November 25, 1943 in the South Pacific during World War 2. Two P-38s of the 13th Army Air Force photographed in formation from a third airplane. Cumulus clouds in the background.The two P-38s peel off and dive. In another sequence, the P-38s join in close formation, peel off and maneuver at high speed in the distance, over water. Includes closeup views of individual P-38 aircraft and of multiple P-38 aircraft in formation.
P-38s of U.S. Army 13th Air Force demonstrate ability to drop auxiliary tanks during World War II in Pacific Theater
November 25, 1943 13th Air Force, South Pacific,during World War 2. A flight of three P-38s in formation with cumulus clouds behind them. Two are being photographed from the third airplane. The lead P-38 demonstrates ability to improve performance for aerial combat, by jettisoning its long range 250 gallon drop tanks and accelerating ahead of the other aircraft.
P-38 aircraft of the U.S. 55th Fighter Group at British airfield Nuthampstead, England
U.S. 55th Fighter Group P-38 planes at Nuthampstead Airfield (Station 131) in England in World War 2. Mechanics prepare P-38 planes prior to the 55th Fighter Group's first combat mission on 15th October 1943. Some of the mechanics work on the .50 Browning machine guns mounted in the nose of the plane. One of them checks fuel lines and the interior of the plane. 38th Fighter Squadron pilots gather in front of their Commander, prior to the mission. Pilots include the Group's first P-38 "Ace," Gerald Brown, and fellow 38th pilots, Jerry Leinweber and Jo Myers. Visual and Audio of 55th Fighter Group Commander, Lt. Colonel, Frank James (Group CO), briefing pilots and emphasizing their bomber escort mission. He tells them not to break off to pursue individual German aircraft. The crews disperse to their respective aircraft for take off. View of Lt Col. Jack Jenkins' P-38H "Texas Ranger" readies for take-off with assistance from his crew chief Sgt. Donald Maloney
Jewish exit railroad cars at concentration camps; Hans Albin Rauter trial for Nazi war crimes.
Dutch war court in the Hague, Netherlands in 1948. Hanns Albin Rauter, Nazi police leader on trial for his crimes in German occupied Netherlands during World War II. Dignitaries and people in courtroom stand up as the judges arrive and take their seats. Session of trial begins. Views of prosecution desk and tribunal seen in turns. Hans Albin Rauter is being questioned by judges. 1942, 1943, or 1944 flashback scenes of Jewish, Dutch civilians being rounded up and deported on railroad trains to forced labor camps and concentration camps, while in background audio the prosecutor reads the charges. The round up footage first shows Jewish families with women and children being directed onto trains at a train station. A subsequent shot shows Jews exiting cramped railroad train cars and being lined up under Nazi guard at concentration camp. Documents about crimes committed by the accused are shown. Another man enters the courtroom, takes the oath and is questioned by the tribunal. The man is a supervisor of slave labor prisoners working for the Germans, and at the time of the trial was detained at a Rotterdam Penitentiary.
Jews loaded into railroad cars during World War 2; Trial of Nazi war criminal Hanns Albin Rauter in the Netherlands
Footage from 1948 and from circa 1943. War crime trial of Hans Albin Rauter in the Hague, Netherlands in 1948. Judges in tribunal give the floor to the public prosecutor ("procureur-fiscaal"). The prosecutor reads a statement in which he explains why the prosecution of Rauter is one of the two most important Dutch Nazi trials (along with the prosecution of Anton Mussert), and why Rauter deserves the death penalty. Flashback scenes from World War 2 of Jewish Dutch citizens being rounded up and loaded into railroad car for deportation slave labor camps and concentration camps while under guard by Nazi Germans. Jews loading into train cars. Some Jews are wearing Jewish star of David symbol on their clothing. Jewish people climbing into train cars, loading various goods in the train, German Nazi guards standing outside the train cars as men can be seen closing the doors and locking Jews inside railroad cars. Chalk writing on railroad cars filled with Jewish people includes one that says "74 pers." (indicating 74 persons in that train car). Steam comes out from the train locomotive. View of railroad train as it moves away on the tracks. Prosecutor completes his readings and sits down.