United States Army Air Force officials in Munitions Building in Washington D.C. Office of General Henry Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. General Arnold and staff seated at a desk. Colonel Trubee Davison, Colonel Thomas J. Hanley, Colonel Karl L Naiden, Lt General Arnold, Brigadier General Carl Spaatz and Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon discuss over a document. Books in a shelf in the background. Map on a wall in the background.
U.S. Army Air Forces officials in the Munitions Building in Washington D.C. Office of General Henry Arnold, Chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Colonel Trubee Davison, Colonel Thomas J. Hanley, Colonel Karl L. Naiden, Lieutenant General Arnold, Brigadier General Carl Spaatz, and Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon discuss a wall map and a globe. General Arnold points at places on the map and talks to the other military officers. Spaatz, Davison and Scanlon looks at the globe.
Meeting of the War Plans Division in the Munitions Building in Washington D.C during World War II. Officials seated at a desk. They discuss some documents. Colonel Harrison, Colonel Garson, Brigadier General Crawford, Brigadier General Dwight Eisenhower, Brigadier General Leonard Gerow, Colonel Handy, Colonel Sherrill, Colonel McKee and Colonel Jay W. MacKelvie seated at the desk. Colonel William P Scobey stands nearby and gives a document to the officials. Staff stands by a globe and discusses.
War Plans Division of the U.S. War Department in the Munitions Building in Washington D.C during World War II. A sign on a doorway reads: "War Plans Division General Staff" with a sign in the background: "Time is short." Staff members enter and come out through the door. Closeup view of the sign over the door.
The War Plans Division in Washington D.C during World War II. Folders on a table in an office. Inserts of individual folders marked with titles: China, India, Java, Libya, Australia, Philippines. A map of the Philippines, Japan, and surrounding countries on the table. Hands locate places on the map.
Opening scene shows U.S. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, demonstrating, on a scale model, how prefabricated parts are assembled into a Liberty Ship, in World war 2. Closeup shows each section of ship labeled by number and name, such as, “Transverse Bulkhead, number 44.” Scene shifts to Permanente Metals Corporation No. 2 shipyard in Richmond, California, where Liberty ships are seen in various stages of construction. Views of keels being laid, superstructures being raised into position, View from interior as skeleton of a ship is being completed. Sign atop the Liberty Ship, Robert E. Peary, as it is being launched, announces that it was completed from keel laying, to launch, in 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. (This was a record for shortest time.) Camera view of the Robert E. Peary, from across the yard area where she was built. A brief view of shipyard activity at night, followed by camera panning over shipyard in daytime. Change of scene to an aircraft factory where B-17 bomber aircraft are being built. Women are seen riveting inside a plane’s fuselage. Other women work on a vertical stabilizer and still others work inside airplane structural members Men assemble an aircraft engine. Women fasten parts of engines together. Engines move through the plant on overhead cranes. An engine and propeller being placed into position on a wing with use of a crane. A right wing with two engines installed is moved into position for installation on a B-17 aircraft. Scene shifts to other aircraft factories building Martin Marauder B-26 aircraft; P-47 fighter aircraft;Navy Catalina aircraft; Douglas A-20 fighter bomber aircraft; and more B-17 bomber aircraft.