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Training the soldiers and providing them with an understanding of their jobs in United States (WW2)

The ignorance of soldiers about their jobs and the war, United States. Stresses the psychological need for hating the enemy. Dramatizes the battlefield treachery of soldiers. Soldiers fire and bombard on the battlefront in World War II. Smoke arises from firing and bombarding. Tank moves on field and fires. A soldier bombing a barbed wire entanglement. Other soldiers fire machine guns. They advance forward on the front. News headlines about the soldiers and their ignorance of job reveals that the soldiers are not prepared to fight. They do not have the understanding of their job. An officer gives lecture to soldiers in the 'Classification Section' to provide them with a proper understanding of their job. The soldiers read books and magazines. They work on the tanks and other war equipment. Training the soldiers mentally. Weekly news about the war on boards.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045493
American Army recruits try on their uniforms in the United States

US Army recruits in World War 2 hold buckets of sand and stand barefoot on one leg at a time as doctor checks for flat feet and shoe sizing. A Lieutenant checks the fit of a new uniform jacket on a soldier. A group of newly recruited soldiers try on uniforms. A group of soldiers buttons their new Army overcoats

Date: 1943
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675058465
After solving problems related to housing, war production goes up at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama in World War 2.

War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of people gathered outside the Personnel Office in Mobile. Congress provides 2 million dollars for housing of war workers (building tanks, guns, ships and other war material in factories, manufacturing plants, and shipyards for the war effort). Shows racially segregated housing and facilities for African American workers versus white workers. Views of a cleared slum area where African Americans had been living been living in poor quality homes before the war. Shortage of housing is addressed with new housing for African American war workers, "Certified Colored War Workers". African American children play and eat at a nursery. Dormitory units for single war workers equipped with gymnasium and other basic facilities. Government owned trailers built by the Maritime Commission near a ship yard. The problem of providing a day nursery is undertaken. Modern permanent homes for war workers who can afford them. After meeting the problems like housing and sanitation, production goes up at the ship yard. A new ship being launched at the ship yard. A sign on the ship reads ' Cedar Mills'.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059208
U.S. Army movies are loaded on and transported by ships, airplanes, dog sleds and camels to remote areas during World War II

Distribution of motion pictures to U.S. Military units during World War II. Men work in an office of overseas motion picture service in New York. Men tying a document related to shipment of films. Men discuss amongst themselves. The films are placed in wooden cases for shipment. Animated map shows various locations. An airplane in flight. Men unload the wooden cases from the airplane. A ship docked in a harbor. Men gather near the ship. A man enters a building in New Delhi, India. A sign outside the building reads: 'India Film Exchange Film Library'. A sign outside other building reads: 'Special Service Section'. Men stand outside the building. A car arrives near the building. The films are transported to remote areas with the help of dog sleds and camels.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062807
U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt christens aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) during World War II

U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt launches the new aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), successor to the earlier Yorktown (CV-5) lost in the battle of Midway during World War 2. The First Lady holds a bouquet and talks to an officer. People crowd at a shipyard for the launch and cheer. The ship begins to move down the ways prematurely, so Mrs. Roosevelt has to hurry with the Christening. View of the ship going down the ways and entering the water, at the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia.

Date: 1943, January 21
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069155
U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps filler depots, reserve depots, manufacturing depots and remount depots in the United States.

United States Army Quartermaster Corps depots in the United States. A port in the United States. Men at work in the port. The port of embarkation, during World War I, filled with the supplies for the soldiers being sent by the manufacturer due to the lack of sufficient depots for storage of supplies. Cars carry supplies to New York port. A map of the United States shows filler depots at ports of embarkation across the nation. A pictorial representation of New York port, being huge, taking supplies from three nearest filler depots. Another map shows reserve depots in four locations. Manufacturing depots in two locations - Philadelphia where clothing is manufactured and Jeffersonville hardware is manufactured. A manufacturing depot in which women sew different clothing. Workers at equipment in a manufacturing depot. The Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot where items are manufactured and which is also a reserve depot for clothing. Rolled flags in wheel carts hauled by workmen in the depot. Workers during the inscription work of insignias on the flags. View of the insignia. Horses moving in columns on a path. Newly purchased horses and mules trained in areas provided by the Quartermaster Corps. Dogs bred in an area. The corps with the dogs. A map of the United States shows remount depots in three locations.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070049