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General Eisenhower being photographed upon his appointment as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in World War II
General Dwight D. Eisenhower at Headquarter Allied Expeditionary Forces in London, England during World War II. General Eisenhower seated at a desk after assuming the office of the Supreme Commander of Allied Expeditionary Forces. The General at the desk as cameramen record. A woman, in Army uniform, takes down notes as Eisenhower dictates.. General Eisenhower at a wall map. He poses against the map. He talks to officers. Eisenhower poses and smiles.
General Eisenhower delivers brief remarks upon his appointment as Supreme Commander, Allied Forces, in World War II
U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is besieged by correspondents and photographers in London, upon his appointment as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Forces during World War 2. He us seen pointing at a wall map of Europe. Then, with flags of Great Britain and the United States behind him, he makes remarks from his desk. He expresses pleasure at the Joint nature of the allied command, and the effectiveness of the U.K. and U.S. forces. He extols the advances made on the Eastern front by Soviet forces. Finally, he expressed confidence in the ultimate victory of the United Nations.
African American airmen being trained for World War II at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations. A statue of Booker T. Washington. Tuskegee Institute campus in Alabama. African American United States Army Air Force pilots being trained at the institute (Tuskegee Airmen). An aircraft takes off. Airmen in a class. Students being trained for jobs in an aviation plant. Scientists and technicians in a laboratory as they conduct research on the science of nutrition. They work to get alcohol from agricultural products like potato. Women learn automotive maintenance skills to take up jobs during the war time.
African American students gain knowledge of medicine, economics, chemistry at Prairie View College and Howard University in the United States (WW2)
African American colleges in the United States during World War II. College curricula adjusts to war needs as they prepare students for various military and civilian occupations including war material production at factories and manufacturing. A sign reads ' Prairie View College' (Present day Prairie View A&M University, 100 University Dr, Prairie View, TX 77446) in Prairie View, Waller County, Texas. College campus with students milling about. Students at an agriculture class learn to maintain farm equipment, animal husbandry. African American students work in forges and machine shops making vital parts for the war effort in World War 2. They work on machines helping to meet war production worker manpower requirements. A building at the Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059) in Washington DC. Students in a mechanical design class learn to make designs of tanks, guns, and other war equipment. Students in a meteorological class study celestial navigation to guide airplanes. Students in a laboratory study the chemistry of a powder. At Howard University medical school students being taught the use the gravity of blood plasma in the battlefield by noted pioneer in blood plasma, Charles R. Drew. At the Howard University College of Liberal Arts, students learn the economics of war. An African American professor teaches a class on Industrial Accounting.
War industries lead to overcrowded cities and housing shortage in Mobile, Alabama; also pre-war poor housing in Mobile
Views of old Mobile Alabama downtown areas and homes during early 1940's. War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. Buildings in the city which now have been converted into homes for men war workers and women war production workers in the shipyards and factories making ships and airplanes, tanks, guns and other war material. A building converted into a dormitory for women. Men outside a building with a sign that reads ' Room board '. Girls in a room. A garage that has been converted into a boarding facility for women war workers. A tent area with a large number of migrant worker families living in it. Children play outside the tents. A woman washes clothes. A man cooks. A woman stands next to a cow and a man sits with his dog outside a shanty house. Next scene is pre-war view of dilapidated and run-down shacks housing African American families in Mobile. African American men, women, and children outside shanty houses in slum areas of Mobile. Scene changes to during war time again, with people at the office of the National Housing Agency. A sign reads ' Mobile housing board'. People at the office of the housing board.
U.S. Coast Guards march with sentry dogs along the Atlantic Coast in United States.
United States Coast Guards with sentry dogs in the United States. The coast guards in white uniforms as they march with the sentry dogs. They march on the Atlantic coast. Coast guard horsemen patrol the coast.
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