Sign on store 'War Manpower Commission. United States Employment Service'. Women receive training in engine shop during World War II. Women rivet in a training class. Women riveting in factory.
Young American woman walks past buildings of an American college. She is seen entering and working at a war production plant during World War 2. She works riveting a section of a warplane. View inside a factory at Willow Run, Michigan, where a line of incomplete B-17 bomber aircraft is seen. Another room contains B-24 Liberator bombers under construction. A woman in the plant holds up a set of electric lines welded together. A woman operates an overhead crane moving a crate of parts in the factory. View of her from below as her housing and the crane are operating. Another woman adjusts her protective helmet and then operates a machine-driven jig saw. Two women war workers set plexiglass sheets on a bombardier's canopy. Two other women operate a machine producing aircraft turret windshields. Women working on aircraft fuselages. View of workers getting meals at the war plant cafeteria and sitting at tables to eat. A woman returns a book to the war plant library. More views of women in various manufacturing jobs, like installing wiring in aircraft fuselages. Women employing assembly jigs. More views of B-24s partially completed. Women moving fully built up aircraft engine by overhead crane and installing such in aircraft air frames. Sections of aircraft being lowered by crane and guided by women. A tail section of a B-24 being assembled. View of completed B-24 Liberator bombers ready for final painting. Next B-24s are seen lined up on the factory ramp. Another glimpse of the B-24 production line. Series of views showing B-24 bombers in flight.
Women train as flight nurses. Buildings at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base. Guard house entrance. A car comes by. Military Police salutes. Students, including nurses of the Army and Navy, file into lecture room. An African American woman is among the group of nurses in training. An officer before a chart. An officer lectures on air and water movements. Another officer explains on water movements on a chart. Girls listen and make notes. An officer lectures on various pressures illustrating his talk on blackboard. A woman officer explains inter-personal relations. Students, some in Naval uniforms, whereas some in Army uniforms ask questions.
Female flight officers in classroom. Instructor gives shows women an oxygen mask to try on as well as other flight masks and breathing devices. A women places the front section of a pressure vest on a volunteer. The instructor uses an anatomical model and removes lung from the model. A woman fills a small vile with a sample.
Woman flight nurses seated in a pressure chambers putting on and adjusting flight oxygen masks. The vault-like doors of the pressure chamber are closed. A technician adjusts valves to decrease pressure. Close up of pressure gauges moving.
Instructor explains weather charts to flight nurse students. Two WACs look at teletype reports in machine. Three flight nursing students look at a model airplane.
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