Production of Ford B-24 aircraft in Michigan, United States during World War 2. A Ford B-24 aircraft rolls out of an assembly line. The aircraft taxis along a field. The aircraft takes off during a test flight. Aerial view of the ground below. The aircraft in flight.
Production of Waco CG-4A gliders at a Ford plant in Michigan, United States during World War 2. C-47 aircraft towing gliders. view of a glider from open door of a C-47. A CG-4A glider landing on a grass field and sliding to a halt just in front of the camera. A pilot seated in the front with a glass panel across the top half of the cabin. Soldiers march to load up in CG-4A gliders. A glider comes in for a landing in sand on a beachhead, followed by another. Exteriors of Ford glider plant near Iron Mountain, Michigan. Workers cover a part of a fuselage and set up wings. They attach wings to the glider.
Telephone lines laid along the Florida coast in the United States. Equipment in view during the extending of telephone lines along the Florida coast. A crane beside the train station in the town of Jewfish, Florida in the upper Florida Keys. A board on the train station building reads 'Jew Fish'. The crane at work. Florida in later years: View of rolls of telephone cables outside a building. Men laying telephone cables from a roll kept on a wheel cart. A small wooden building with a board that reads 'The New Telephone Bldg., Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company'. Another small building with a few boards. One of the boards reads 'Keeping Face With Orlands'. A large concrete building with a path in the front. Trees along the side of the path.
A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A training squad at station no.2 during the gas obstacle course. The squad leader moves with team members towards a captured German command post. A sign board reads 'Station No.2, German Command Post'. The team beside the command post. The leader opens the door of a cellar and signals to his squad. The team members enter the cellar and one of the team members lets off a booby trap. Smoke rises from the explosion. The squad moving in the cellar. One of the team members inspects a German gas mask. Another team member inspects another equipment. The team emerges from the cellar. The team standing in a group on a grassy ground. One of the squad members writing a consolidated report.
A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A trainee squad at Station No.3 in a woody terrain during the gas obstacle course. An instructor and trainees standing beside a canoe near trees. The instructor tells the members of the squad to identify duds (unexploded ordnance) since the enemy used some agents of an unknown type in shells. The members of the squad walk through the woody terrain trying to identify duds. One of the trainees identifies a shell in a dug. The trainee jotting down notes. One of the officers sprays CND from a chemical cylinder into the air. The trainees in the terrain identify all the dugs. (World War II period).
A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A signboard reads 'Station No.4, Reconnaissance for samples of vesicants'. Trainees on a woody terrain where the enemy has shelled with an unidentified gas. A trainee collecting a shell holder and testing it for contamination. The trainee then takes a soil sample in a bottle for analysis and wraps it with a wax paper to prevent leakage and burns. The trainee squad moving through a contaminated area. An explosion of mustard gas in the area. Soil, plants and trees are contaminated. The squad wearing impregnated coats moving through the contaminated area. View of shoes of the trainees covered with particles of mustard. The squad beside a wire fence entangle. The squad moving through trees to the next station in the course. (World War II period).
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