Women of Auxiliary Territorial Service, in World War II. Several are dressed in flight overalls, others are not. They enter gate of aviation training facility. They are shown an Aircraft Log Book (C.A. Form 27) in which one must record all information pertaining to the operating history of an airplane. A man shows the women access panel on side of an aircraft engine. The women (now all in coveralls) pick up and tow an aircraft backwards, by hand, to a spot on the lawn.
Women, of the British Auxiliary Territorial Service, work maintaining aircraft during World War II. A woman performs maintenance on nose section of an airplane engine. One woman explains aspects of an engine to several others. A woman climbs into cockpit of an autogyro, while another pulls propeller through several times. A third woman lies on ground under aircraft performing maintenance inside an open panel. New women volunteers are lined up in formation on concrete apron in front of hangar, while supervisor speaks to them.
British women working in agriculture, in the "Land Army" on the home front, during World War II. They wear the uniform consisting o breeches, jersey, and slouch hat. Women are seen gathering harvested crop, pitching hay onto horse -drawn wagon and driving tractor in field. Women riding on wagon pulled by draught horse. A woman leads the horse, pulling empty wagon, out the gate of the farm.
British women of the "Land Army" at work in agricultural activities in the United Kingdom, during World War II. They wear uniforms consisting of Jersey, breeches, and slouch hat. They handle produce on a conveyor belt in a farm shed, and pack produce in boxes. They tend vegetables growing in raised beds, watering and harvesting. The women pass through an archway and enter a classroom, where an instructor explains the fundamentals of an internal combustion cycle. Women line up on dirt field and pick up potatoes as they are uprooted by a tractor driven by one of the women.
A fire sweeps through one wing of the Munitions Building of the War Department, Washington DC. Firemen hose down the building (Constitution Gardens Pond, Washington, DC 20004, USA). Damages to other sections of the structure. Men examine the damage.
Japanese aircraft attacks U.S. ships in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. A U.S. Navy OS (Operations Specialist) seated before a radar. An aircraft in flight overhead. View aboard U.S. ship underway in the Pacific. A telephone operator looks up into the sky while he talks over the phone. Gun crew on single 40MM gun, training gun. A trainer on a gun. Ships underway at sea in background. A 5 inch gun is fired. Flak in the sky. A Coast Guard personnel loads clips into a 40mm twin bofor gun. A Japanese plane hits water after being shot down. Gun crew on 20MM gun fires at enemy aircraft. A Japanese Kamikaze plane hits a flight deck in a ball of flame. Coast Guard crew on 20mm gun fire at Japanese plane. Japanese plane in flight, tracer streaking through sky. American carrier covered in smoke after being hit by Japanese Kamikaze plane. An LST (Landing Ship Tank) fire all guns at Japanese aircraft. Sky filled with flak. Japanese aircraft heads for water. A 40mm gun is fired. Japanese plane strikes water. Twin 40mm gun is fired. Men load clips into the 40mm gun. Japanese plane hits water. Guns aboard the ship are fired. Coast Guard photographer shoots the movies. An officer looks through binoculars.
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