Moviemaking and distribution by the U.S. Army during World War 2. Scenes of New York City skyline at night and street scenes in daytime. U.S. Servicemen in South Pacific, the arctic, and in Egypt. Soldiers marching and watching training films.Scenes on set of training film being made about care of wounded. Soldiers checking out films and motion picture projection equipment at an Army library. Comments regarding popularity of the "Fighting Men," "Why we fight,"and other series of war time motion pictures. Soldier technicians inspecting and repairing films and equipment. Discussions and sample slates of films translated into various languages. Views of soldier actors, producers, directors, and technicians enter movie studio buildings to produce films.
Activities of the U.S. Navy in the United States. The U.S. Navy sailors stand in formation on the ground in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The sailors holding rifles march in formation. Trees in the background. Men firing guns from a battleship underway at sea. The pilot boarding the aircraft. Several aircraft parked on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier underway at sea. Battleships underway at sea in column formation. (World War II period).
The Canol Project during World War II. 'Canol' written on a building in Fairbanks, Alaska. The American flag on a pole in front of the building. Faces of engineers. 'Waterways' written on a building wall. People walk outside the New Franklin Hotel. Tents, vehicles and barracks on an open ground. A soldier walks with a rifle in hand. Carpenters erect wooden barracks.
A U.S. Navy ship being tested in the Atlantic Ocean. A new U.S. ship underway at sea. Naval guns aboard the ship. A man blows a bugle as crew members rush for duty. The naval guns being prepared for firing. 16 inch naval guns being fired. Observers aboard the ship look through binoculars. The naval guns being fired. (World War II period).
Scientists determine nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2. Conscripts receive medical examination by an army doctor before going into the U.S. Army. The new recruits holding documents waiting in a queue for their turn to be weighed on a scale. An officer seated at a table. Two military draftees talking. Members of a U.S. Army Combat Service Support Branch, the Quartermaster Corps, cutting meat for preparation. A table set for soldiers with tea cups arranged and fruits in the center. The soldiers seated at tables and having food. Quartermaster Corps serving the soldiers. Scientists in a laboratory studying food that will impart energy, strength, and improved performance to the soldiers. A soldier seated at a table and a member of the Quartermaster Corps measuring out rice into a bowl that a soldier would have to have to provide the same nutrition as in his military rations. Dr. Ansel Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota, seated at a table and vitamins kept on the table for the soldiers. Narrator mentions that the German military supposedly has a super man vitamin pill. Doctor dispenses vitamins from a box. Doctor measures the strength of a soldier who has been taking vitamins. Doctor gives a soldier more vitamin pills. Two seated soldiers open tins of vitamin pills. Soldiers sleeping in a room maintained at a certain high temperature during an experiment to determine what foods are best for various climates. Soldiers carrying rifles walking on a treadmill. The amount of perspiration is measured.
Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy during World War II. Water ambulances come in to a pier. A wounded soldier on a litter is placed in a new ambulance. A medical officer decorates U.S. soldiers with the Purple Hearts ion Palermo. Other soldiers lined up in the background. A dead German soldier on a dirt road. Surgeons perform an operation in artificial lights. The medical officer decorates the soldiers.
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