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U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt states the position of the United States during World War II.

A newspaper headline: '11 Million Tons Sunk'. A United States shipyard. Workers construct a vessel at the shipyard. President Franklin Roosevelt states : 'Axis powers are not going to win this war'. A newspaper headline from World-Telegram: 'US will patrol seven seas if necessary-Roosevelt'. A man talks over a telephone. A map on a wall in the background.

Date: 1942
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046077
The United States mobilizes and joins Allies in World War II. A montage of numerous World War 2 period images.

Film opens with views of goosestepping German, Italian, and Japanese soldiers during parade reviews in their respective countries. Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse. American battleships burning in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. General Douglas MacArthur decorating a soldier in Manila, Philippines. Air raid sirens sounding in Manila and residents hurrying to take cover. Heavy black smoke rising from a bombed site and emergency vehicles responding and rushing to several bombed and burning locations. A burning rickshaw amidst other bombing rubble and bodies of victims. U.S. Army General MacArthur greeted by Australian officials at his headquarters in Brisbane, Australia. Sign reads: Headquarters UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES in Australia. American flag flying on tall flagpole. View from ship underway in supply convoy. A battleship seen on horizon and a destroyer passing the camera ship. U.S. President, Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the "Lend Lease Act" of 1941. A U.S. industrial plant with four tall stacks emitting smoke. A steam locomotive belching steam. A locomotive pulling an open car and some tank cars. New 1941 Plymouth automobiles coming off a production line. A new M3 Medium Tank in a U.S. factory. View of Liberty Ships, including the "Zebulon Pike" and the "Henry Knox" under construction at the California Shipbuilding Corporation yard, Terminal Island, California. U.S. Navy Destroyers constructed at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. One is being launched, next to DD-446 (the USS Radford). A formation of U.S. Navy aircraft including Curtiss SBC Helldiver scout bombers and Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers. A tight formation of U.S. Army Douglas B-18 Bolo medium bombers in flight. A formation of U.S. Army Curtiss P-36 Hawk aircraft in flight. Closeup of a U.S. Army Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft in flight. Several huge gun barrels for guns under construction at a U.S. war plant. Large artillery shells lined up in a manufacturing plant. U.S. Army M3 Medium tanks under construction at a factory. Steam and smoke rising from a U.S. industrial plant. Aerial view of open pit iron mine. Sparks shooting up inside a steel plant. A virtual "forest" of oil derricks in the Western U.S. Coal being transported by railway. View from stern of a warship in a convoy. An Atlanta-class light cruiser leading three destroyers at sea. Transport ships in convoys to places like Australia, Britain, and the Middle East. Troops on a pier near a large transport ship. A stack of wartime supplies on a pier next to a ship destined for Russia. Glimpse of wake from a U.S. warship having triple guns astern. Silhouette of a U.S. Navy Enterprise-class Aircraft carrier, with an aircraft taking off from her deck. The aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga. U.S. Army soldiers marching on parade, followed by numerous jeeps with machine guns mounted in their rears. Young men being drafted into the U.S. military. A draft lottery being conducted. New recruits doing calisthenics. Trucks pulling artillery pieces. B-18 Bolo bombers flying over U.S. tanks. Closeup of M3 tank. Cavalry fording a stream. Soldiers on motorcycles. Troops crossing a pontoon bridge. A loaded troop ship. A troop transport at Newfoundland. Sentry in Trinidad. Troops encamped in Bermuda.Troopship docked in Greenland. Troops disembarking in Iceland. Formations of Curtis P-36 Hawk aircraft. Douglas DC-2 aircraft factory. P-36s with engines running. M3 tank suspended on factory crane. Officials of Pan American nations siding with Allies. Allied troops including Dutch, Belgian, Yugoslav, Greek, Czech, Filipino, Polish, Norwegian, Free French, Australian, New Zealand, South African and Canadian. British warships. British Hawker Tempest aircraft. British commandos. Russian troops on parade. Chinese troops on the Great Wall of China.

Date: 1942
Duration: 6 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046085
German Marshal Erwin Rommel inspects coastal defenses in North Africa

German Marshal Erwin Rommel in North Africa. He inspects coastal defenses. He meets the soldiers on guard duty and poses for the camera. Rommel leading an orders group from his Sdkfz.250/3 command half-track 'Greif'. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675046318
The importance of gas mask depicted through dramatization in United States.

A U.S. Army training film about gas masks. The film is titled 'Defense Against Chemical Warfare'. A soldier lies down removing his gas mask kit. His sergeant tells him not to do so. He tells him a story about a soldier named Joe. He says when the call of joining army came, many people came from different professions. Joe used to think that the training with a gas mask was a joke. Soldiers were tested in a gas chamber but Joe did not learn from that experience. They were sent to the front as advance patrol. Soldiers passed through a chemical contaminated area. The general of patrol had given maps of contaminated area to soldiers. Joe did not pay much attention to this information. During an enemy attack he got hit by gases and fell on ground. Soldiers put gas mask over his face and left him there only. He was then taken on a stretcher. Medical vans pass on road. A bomb explosion on road. Soldiers hide at sides. (World War II period).

Date: 1942
Duration: 9 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046340
Workers and employees of the U.S. Army Signal Corps work with great care in the United States (WW2)

A woman works at the United States Army Signal Corps office during World War II. She answers the phone. A paper containing sensitive information drops from her desk. Soldiers fighting in the Pacific Theater. A Mickey Mouse watch on the wrist of a dead soldier. A woman puts a file in a drawer. A soldier runs and throws a grenade at Japanese positions. A screw is tightened on an equipment. A man works on a blueprint. A woman typing on a typewriter. Close up view of hands-on typewriter typing. Women writing codes and stamping documents. A man welds some equipment. A forklift lifts packets and stores. Carts with cables and machines. Cargo trucks in front of a warehouse depot. Logistics loaded on a ship. Smokestacks of a factory. Spools of cable and crates on deck of cargo ship. Cargo ship supplies logistics to different units. Soldiers board a troop transport ship on the way to the war front and they wave from the deck. A landing craft on a beach. Soldiers run on the beach. A closeup view of a German wristwatch with a Nazi swastika symbol on it. Various scenes of United States soldiers firing artillery. Signal Corps women typing, working in factories, signing documents, operates switchboards, and pulls out a file from a drawer.

Date: 1942
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046401
The procedure of decontamination after a gas attack - a U.S. Army training film (WW2)

A U.S. Army Training film about Decontamination Procedures during World War II. The film is tilted 'Decontamination Procedures', 'equipment'. An aircraft attack with poison gas on trucks. The trucks go from the gas contaminated area to a safer place. The driver and the assistant driver of the truck, wearing gas masks, open the door and clean the steps and the door of the truck. Members of decontamination team arrive wearing protective clothes. They wash the truck with a solution of kerosene or gasoline. They remove the canvas cover from the truck and spread it on the ground. They put a warning sign board there. They spray the decontamination liquid all over the truck. Cans are refilled with non corrosive powder and chloride mixture, it is mixed well till it is transparent. It is then poured into cans and sprayed on the truck. Then truck is tested with a detector crayon. A 400 gallon apparatus is used to clean the truck. Then truck is washed with a mix of lime and water. It is mixed well and lumps are dissolved. It is then filled in cans. Then pressure pump is used to build pressure in the cans.

Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675046402