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Glenn Miller leads an Army Air Forces band at a war bond rally in England during World War II.

War bond rally in England during World War II. Commander of the U.S. 8th Air Force Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle purchases a war bond at a booth and signs a register. American soldier seated on ground as Military Policemen (MP) stand in the foreground. Soldiers including WACs (Women's Army Corps) run across for seats before the Army Air Forces band. MPs march. Military band marches. Soldiers seated as Major Glenn Miller speaks into a microphone about the war bonds. Members of the Army Air Forces band play various instruments and sing. Soldiers applaud in appreciation. Lieutenant General Doolittle and other officers listen to the band play.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021993
U.S. war correspondents in a freed French town shortly after the Allied invasion of France during World War 2

U.S. war correspondents in a French town shortly after the allied Invasion of France near the end of World War II in Europe. Portion of U.S. invasion fleet off coast of France. Allied naval fleet underway at sea. Officers and war correspondents aboard the ships. U.S. Army jeeps on the hangar deck of a ship. Equipment unloaded at a French port. U.S. flag on a ship. Men milling about in the foreground. U.S. war correspondents seated on the hood of a jeep in a French town as they talk and smile. A photographer with a camera as he talks to a soldier. Buildings along the harbor of the coastal town and views of the channel.

Location: France
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022058
Animation of night sky, man harnessing fire and steel and early blacksmith operations leading to World War 1 era war production

Opening shows a German language poster promoting a May 4, 1940 Grosse Mei-Feier and military concert sponsored by the German American Companies of Brooklyn New York City, to be held in Schwaben Hall at Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenue in Brooklyn. Next is opening credits for German film "Mettaldes Himmels" (Metals from Heaven), made in 1936. Animation shows the night view of the sky in Germany. Moon and stars in the sky. Meteors shoot. One impacts the earth and explodes. A crater on the earth's surface. Blacksmith of middle age pounds piece of glowing metal into a sword. A water wheel in a hut. Men work. They hammer metal in glowing hot fires. Rapid montage of scenes of war armament production and application of metals in war materiel. Rifles and artillery on a World War I era battlefield. World War 1 German tank on the battlefield. Military biplane aircraft fly in the sky. Naval ships fire guns and bombard targets. A German naval torpedo running near surface of water. Smoke arises due to firing.

Location: Germany
Date: 1936
Duration: 2 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675027591
Blind, deaf, disabled and old American workers assisting in the war production effort in Dayton, Ohio, during World War II

Disabled and elderly war production workers contributing to the labor force during World War 2, in Dayton Ohio. Opening scene shows a woman supervisor observing deaf mute women in a lens factory, cleaning segments of bifocal lenses. Closeup of supervisor and one worker communicating by American sign language. A blind man in a shop, using a snap gauge to check finished parts for conformity. A man on crutches taking his place on a war production line. Older men in the shipping department of a factory, packaging and sealing boxes labeled, "Delicate instruments. Handle with care." and placing them on a dolly. Women can be seen at work in another part of the plant. Members of the Dayton Junior Association of Commerce, lined up applying for part-time employment of 4 hours a day, to help the war effort. Students leaving a High School building. (Narrator states schedules were re-arranged for students who would take part-time jobs.)

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029531
New construction taking place in Dayton,Ohio, to accommodate influx of war workers during World War II

The city of Dayton, Ohio working to deal with its housing shortage during World War 2. Influx of World War II war production workers causes many workers to live in group homes and shelters. Women in an open common area of a shelter with many bunks and cots for beds. Men and women are seen in shared living quarters, doing ordinary thing, such as reading , conversing, sewing, and ironing clothes, and preparing food in a common kitchen. A billboard in a field, announces "Hartman Homes, developed by the Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority. A victory Housing Project of the Federal Public Housing Authority." Camera pans to show a wide expanse of ground being worked with a steam shovel, as construction begins. Engineers and builders look over plans at the job site. Scene shifts to another housing project site with some attached houses already constructed. At another location several fairly large single family dwellings are seen in mid-stage of construction. A low apartment house is seen under construction as well as various new streets with newly built homes. A large building in downtown Dayton displays a sign reading: "This property is being remodeled to house War Workers."

Location: Dayton Ohio USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029533
Construction of Liberty Ships vital to War Effort in World War 2

World War II Liberty Ships that carry war materiel like guns,tanks and planes, in the Marine Shipyard in Sausalito, California, across bay from Richmond California shipyards. View of Vice Admiral Emory Scott Land (retired), speaking about the need for ships, and more ships, for the war effort. Among Liberty ships shown are Billy Mitchell, George Chamberlain, Waslater, Cermak and Charles Summer. Ships with bow numbers 434, 432, and others lined up under construction. View of Senate bill 3500, Merchant Marine Act of 1936 authorizing merchant ship building to support commerce and National Defense. Marine architects and engineers work with blueprints and models to optimize design for fleet of merchantmen that would eventually be called "Liberty Ships." National Posters seen. One shows burly shipyard worker with sledge hammer and reads: "Swing it Brother." Another shows convoy of ships at sea and reads: "You Build ''em. We'll sail 'em." Construction begins. Timbers, plates, anchors , engines, steel blades, and other of the hundred thousand items needed build a ship. Crowds of Shipyard workers leaving after a work shift. A sign on building reads,'It can and will be done', and another, under which workers walk advertises war bonds . Shaping metal with gas torches. Fabricating ribs of steel. Spray painting. A woman welder named Mary Smith, welding with torch. Cutting steel using patterns and torches. Fabricating bulkheads. Riveting. Derricks lift heavy assemblies.

Location: Sausalito California USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675031500
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