Views of many women seen working in ship yards in Canada as part of war production effort in North America during World War 2. Women help in building Victory ships in shipyards. Canadian women are seen wearing uniforms and helmets to aid the war production effort. Women work as electricians and in construction. A woman is seen smoking. In the United States, view of women in WAC (Women's Army Corps) repairing airplanes. Women are seen servicing the aircraft.
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.
U.S. transport aircraft drop supplies in Burma during World War II. Chinese soldiers dig a hole in a jungle with hand tools for a charge of dynamite. Kachin native workers look up. The workers extend hands upwards as a U.S. Army Air Force C-47 Skytrain transport aircraft drops parachute supplies. U.S. gunner Walter Dawson stands behind a machine gun. U.S. soldiers place dynamite in the hole. Smoke rises as the dynamite explodes. A Chinese soldier stands.
From a series of clips showing work on the Canol Project in Canada during World War 2. View of workers working at a construction site near the Mackenzie River. African American U.S. Army soldiers of the 388th Engineer General Service Regiment roll steel pipes on to a barge. The Engineers lift the pipes. (When the river was frozen, members of this regiment were sometimes referred to as the "Ice Road Truckers" moving equipment on the frozen Mackenzie River.)
The Canol Project in Canada during World War II. A barge loaded with supplies approaches a harbor for a landing. A speed boat passes by barges. A camp site area with workers and tents at the harbor. African American U.S. Army soldiers of the 388th General Services Regiment roll steel pipes on two parallel pipes on the ground. They move the pipes with sticks in hand. A worker rolls a drum. Tents in the background. Soldiers stand in a line for food. A barge departs from the harbor.
American flag flying from a tall flagpole over a hill near Henderson Field on Guadalcanal during World War 2. U.S. Marine officers are seated at a table in a local headquarters tent dug in and sandbagged at the base of the hill, which sits on the edge of the captured Japanese airfield (Henderson Field). One of the officers is looking through binoculars. Nearby, behind them a C-45 transport plane (Beechcraft Model 18) is approached by a fuel truck. Many other aircraft parked aircraft are seen in the distance. Two Marines standing in front of a mound of sandbags discuss something on a clipboard. Several Marines relax in front of a wooden building. Another Marine officer wearing a sidearm joins them with a large map, which they discuss. One of the Marine officers is a Colonel (O-6). Scene shifts to a B-17, tail number 41-2403, taxiing. Next, several B-17s are seen through palm trees, flying overhead. One has its landing gear extended and descends, beyond some trees, to land. Camera moves to a site where pipelines are being repaired by Seabees. A Seabee welder is at work on one. Seabees move new pipe into position on cross ties. (Note: The B-17 Number 41-2403 ditched January 27, 1943, on the way from Guadalcanal to Espiritu Santo, with Brigadier General Nathan Farragut Twining, Commander, 13th Air Force, on board. On 1 February 1943, the U.S. Navy rescued him and 14 others from their life rafts, near New Hebrides Islands.)
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