Allied leaders meet in Quebec, Canada during World War II. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seated in chairs as they discuss. U.S. Army General George C. Marshall and U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest King and other Allied officers stand behind the leaders. An aircraft taxis and Chinese Foreign Secretary T.V. Soong gets off the aircraft. Prime Minister Mackenzie receives Soong at the airport. Prime Minister Churchill smokes a cigar and President Roosevelt smiles. Allied military officers confer around a table. General George C. Marshal and others confer.
Opens with "back the attack" 5th War Loan fundraising message of World War 2. Film title "Target Berlin" seen along with sound and images of impact of bombardment. Scenes from an aircraft manufacturing plant in Canada. A man seen in office over a telephone conversation getting news to build the bombers. Canadian men and women war production workers working in the plant talk about the manufacturing of the Lancaster Bomber. Designers,engineers and officers engage in discussion about the blueprints and drawings of the aircraft for production. Workers, engineers, and technicians manufacturing and assembling various parts of the aircraft in Victory Aircraft Limited, an aircraft production company. "KB-700" painted on the fuselage of the nearly completed aircraft.
Completion of first Canadian Lancaster bomber KB-700. Workers and engineers in manufacturing plant finalize the work of Lancaster production. Overhead view of entire length of aircraft in factory while under construction. Air Force Officers inspect the built aircraft. Celebration and inaugural ceremony of the Lancaster aircraft with musical bands, cheering people visible in the background. Aircraft moves out from the aircraft factory hangar, "VICTORY" written on the top of the hangar at the plant, Victory Aircraft Limited. Flight crew members along with a dog, climb up in the aircraft. Views of interior of Lancaster bomber, main corridor, and cockpit and controls. Aircraft named the "Ruhr Express", takes off from Canada for its first flight to England. View of it flying over waters with ice. Aircraft lands on the concrete runway in London. Senior Air force officers and other dignitaries receive the flight crew members. Address from Sir Stafford Cripps, British minister of aircraft production with emphasis on the capability of the Canadian Lancaster. Air Force Officers in briefing preparing for attack on Berlin. (World War II period).
The Canol Project (Canadian oil) in Canada during World War II. A board reads 'Dawson Creek Welcomes You'. Vehicles on a street. A board on a shop reads 'Wade's Style Shop'. 'Dew Drop Inn' written on a wall. The Canadian Bank of Commerce building and the Dawson Hotel. Foot prints on snow covered surface.
Dionne quintuplets, the five identical sisters from Canada, present at launch of five cargo vessels at Walter Butler Shipbuilders in Superior, Wisconsin. Luggage belonging to the five Dionne quintuplets. The Dionne sisters and their parents wave from a moving train. The Dionne sisters each launch a ship one after the other assisted by a U.S. Navy officer. The Dionne sisters and their mother walk escorted by navy officers.
Lumberjacks in a Canadian forest cut Douglas fir. A luberjack man cuts a tree with an axe. Men use axes for cutting tress. The trees fall. Many views of giant trees crashing to the ground after they are cut. A railroad train loaded with logs cross a bridge. The logs are dropped in a river for transport. The workers walking on floating logs in the water work to send the logs down the river to saw mills so they can be cut into lumber for use in the war effort during World War 2.
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