A large crowd emerges from the Paris Bourse (Paris Stock Exchange). Rows of motorcars parked outside. The dealing room inside the Stock Exchange. A man with sign boards fixed onto his back. Men and women in the crowd. A Catholic Nun. Men near a news stand or book stall. A man pulls a cart on the road. A traffic policeman minds the traffic. A park.
A Dutch invention called the 'Amphitron' or the 'Amphirol'. Men seated on it. The vehicle driven on land and in quicksand. Tracks in wet mud. The driver at the controls. The amphitron taken into water. The British Armys new six wheel gun and personnel carrier zips uphill and downhill on steep slopes. A jalopy race underway at the Brands Hatch Track in England. British and American drivers participate. The cars flip, bump and bash into oil barrels on the tracks. A large crowd witnesses the event.
U.S. Coast Guard SPARS (US CG Women's Reserve) march at the Training Station. CG men and women recruits take their places at various Battle Stations across the U.S. U.S. CG men and women personnel report for duty on shore and at sea. SPARS arrive in Washington and New York. A sailor watches through binoculars, a SPARS with documents, sailor on cutter, SPARS drives a car, sailor by a plane. A radioman and woman operate the radio. Men and women gunner mates on cutters. A U.S. CG pilot in the cockpit, SPARS parachute riggers at work. A deck gun on a cutter. A crew of 8 sailors observe the gun. SPARS take their places at a shore station. The captain and his crew come aboard a cutter. U.S. CG cutters at sea. Includes narration by Ginger Rogers and James Cagney.
German submarines in the English Channel during World War 2, attacking British ships and North American aid ships to Britain. A u-boat submarine gradually disappears in water. A depth gauge meter inside the submarine. German Navy crew men at work inside the submarine and views of interior compartment and controls of German submarine. View of ships from the periscope of the submerged submarine. German submarine fires torpedoes as British ships are attacked by the submarines some of which are on the surface and some are underwater. Sailors at a submarine attack a ship. New ships are launched in the Atlantic from American and Canadian ship building ports. A ship named "Challenge" is christened and launched down skids. Explosions in the sea as Allied ships drop depth charges and hunt German submarines. Sailors observe through binoculars from a ship. A man drinks from a mug. Cargo convoy ships in the Atlantic including one named "King William" supplying the British.
Aerial view of buildings and beaches on coast of England, United Kingdom, during World War 2. Narrator describes preparations by British soldiers for an invasion of England by German forces. British soldiers train for defensive operations. They run holding rifles and take up positions along the coast. Artillery gun barrel as the gun is fired. A group of soldiers run carrying guns. Two soldiers walk. A church and a field. A soldier checks the identity of a woman and a man. Another one stops a vehicle and checks the identity of a civilian driver. Soldiers board vehicles. British aircraft overhead in flight, on patrol against German attack. British troops hold guns and march. New recruits are processed: Man in civilian suit stands in queue to receive military uniform and equipment as he enters the British armed forces. A ship carrying troops from Canada departs its home port bound for the war front. Families of the troops wave from dock and wish them good bye.
Soldiers on tanks fire artillery mounted on the tanks. Aircraft in flight. Views of explosions in the battlefield. Soldiers walk in lines. The soldiers in front of tents. Anti-aircraft artillery crew fire at enemy aircraft during World War II. New recruits in civilian clothes arriving for training in military armed forces in the United States. Men are trained for the army. Workers in an American factory make war equipment and war materiel. Men work on airplanes. They carry tire tubes for aircraft. People move inside an aircraft production building. Women stand in a line. Women workers report at a war production plant. A woman is being interviewed. Female war materiel workers are seated on benches and an official briefs them about the job. The women receive uniforms including a one-piece coverall uniform, wiping cloth, a cap, hairnet, and safety glasses or safety goggles, and a towel. A woman takes out uniforms from shelves in a closet. A woman wears a pair of glasses and a cap. Women move inside the production factory on the factory floor. A female worker teaches another woman how to operate a lathe. A liquid comes out of a pipe of the machine in operation. Two women work on the lathe. A truck in front of the receiving department. Women at a table make a note of the incoming material. Women work with hammer on a sheet. Women check for flaws in the raw materials. American flag seen on the wall above the women workers.
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