A film on the recruitment of women in the United States Army, Navy and Marines. Female personnel in the Marines are placed for the jobs after their training. Women Marines working in a completely women-run post office at Camp Lejeune. Some of the women serving as telephone operators. Others working as typists. Women and men military personnel at a bar enjoying drinks. A woman operating a mimeograph copy machine. Women seated at desks and typing documents. A woman sketching a map. Vehicles parked on the ground. Women's Reserve mechanics working on the maintenance of Marines aircraft. Pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. A woman boards the airplane in the back seat, and is handed an aerial reconnaissance photography camera. The plane in flight. The woman takes photographs of the area. Lady Marines march in formation on a parade ground. Trees in the background. The marching women of the Marine Corps Womens Reserve pass by a column of marching men Marines.
A film titled: 'Battle Stations' on the Coast Guardsmen and United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS). The Coast Guardsmen fighting on the battlefront in the European Theater during the World War II. Various citations and medals of honor for the Coast Guards who died while fighting for their country. The Coast Guards marching in formation. Two Coast Guards holding U.S. flag and the flag of USCG lead the parade. Other Coast Guards hold rifles. Coast guard cutters underway at sea. A man aboard the ship watching the enemy actions through binoculars. Other man talking on radio. Smoke from explosions in the area. Dead bodies of the Coast Guards who died in the war in caskets wrapped with U.S. flags. Other Coast Guards standing nearby and salute. Recruitment of women for the job of Coast Guards in the United States. Women taking oaths. The new recruits walking towards a building with their personal belongings for their training. Women in barracks. They ride bicycles and stand at attention on the ground. Women perform drill on the ground. An aircraft parked on air base. A woman walking nearby. The woman standing in front of the building.
A film on the Coast Guardsmen and United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS). A Coast Guard soldier and a Coast Guard woman walking at the sea shore. Statue of Liberty in the background. SPARS march in formation. Buildings in the background. A seaplane parked on the ground. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. The plane taxiing. A woman watching the plane. (World War II period).
Nomination of Former Vice President Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce in the United States. Meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones addresses the committee. He speaks about the qualifications and background which he deems essential in one who aspires to head the lending agencies which deal in billions. Wallace addressing the officials and talks about the RFC.
Manufacture and testing of a new robot bomb in the United States: A Republic Aviation and Ford Motor Company collaboration known as the JB-2 Loon, modeled after the German V-1 flying bomb. Interior of a war production factory. Worker welding part of bomb frame. Workers wheeling completed bomb fuselages on wheeled platforms in the plant. Closeup of an African American man wheeling a bomb. Henry Ford II and Ray Rausch, of Ford Motor Company, who oversaw the production of the pulsejet engines for the JB-2 bomb. Men working for the construction of the robot bomb. Closeup view of engine being fired on a test stand. Men and women war production workers at the Willys-Overland production plant in Toledo, Ohio are seen working on the interior components of the flying bomb, then closing the completed fuselages, and attaching the wings to the flying bomb. Engineering officers from the Army Air Forces Air Technical Command inspect a completed JB-2 flying bomb. View of a test launch o the bomb from a sandy beach area. The bomb engine fires and the bomb launches out over ocean waters, dropping its auxiliary launching apparatus beneath it, close to shore.
Excerpt from the fictional film "Birth of a Nation". A pro Southern dramatization on the effect of the Civil War and the reconstruction. Prewar conditions on the Cameron estate in Piedmont, South Carolina. The members of the southern Cameron and northern Stoneman families of Washington are introduced. Men and women reading a newspaper outside a house. The newspaper headlined read: 'If the North carries the election, the South will secede'. An abolitionists meeting. They discuss about the news. The Stoneman library in Washington. Women cleaning the library. One of the woman leaves. A man enters and talks to the woman. They argue and the man leaves the room. The woman cry. Man portrayed as Leader of the Senate Charles Sumner in the library. He looks at the books kept on a table. He arrives near the woman and talks to her. A woman and a man talking amongst themselves in a room. Other man enters and talks to them.
CRITICALPAST.COM: About Us | Contact Us | FAQs - How to Order | License Agreement | My Account | My Lightboxes | Shopping Cart | Advanced Search | Featured Collections | Website Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy ©2026 CriticalPast LLC.
License Agreement |
Terms & Conditions |
Privacy Policy
©2026 CriticalPast LLC.