A film describes functions of Professional Sections of a U.S. Army evacuation hospital in the European Theater during World War II. Doctors and members of a orthopedic team adjust a cast on a wounded soldier's leg. Patients are taken to post-operative tents. A patient being shaved and a patient smoking a cigarette in a post-operative tent. An internal-medicine specialist uses a stethoscope on a patient. A nurse caring for a patient. Men of a Mobile Quartermaster Laundry Unit unload laundry from a truck.
USS Puffer underway in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. Men on conning tower, talk amongst themselves. Men stand around on forward end of the submarine coming into port. They discuss amongst themselves. Officers on the bridge of the submarine. Tender with submarines nested alongside. Officers come aboard and being greeted at the gangway by the commander. The officers discuss.
Sailors on conning tower of American submarine, USS Sea Owl, tied up in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, near end of World War 2. The American flag stands straight out in a stiff wind.The sailors display Japanese Naval ensigns, and hoist set of nautical pennants. An officer comes out of the hatch of the submarine along with a blindfolded Japanese prisoner. Sailors taking out another blindfolded prisoner on stretcher from the hatch. The prisoners leaving the submarine.
The Pentagon U.S. War Department Building in the United States. People working inside the building. A woman in the Pentagon cafeteria an lunch time. The women seen filing reports. She types a document on a typewriter, and listens to and transcribes a dictaphone recording. The woman sits inside her house at the end of the work day. She is reading a magazine seated at her bed.
Clip compares Washington DC to an industrial boomtown where the big business is government, during World War 2. Men and women working in offices. A young woman seated at a desk and doing clerical work. Identification cards of civilian women working for the U.S. Army. Pedestrians and workers walking on a street of Washington DC. Buildings along street sides. People at the entrance of Union Station. A woman identified as Phyllis Hood joins others in a Diamond Taxi cab leaving Union Station. Woman exits the taxi and looks at various buildings as she seeks a place to live in Washington. Boards on buildings read: 'No Vacancy', 'No Rooms' and 'Filled Up'. Wearing a fur coat and hat, she stops and sits on her suitcase, removes a shoe, and rubs her tired feet. She talks to a police officer on a traffic corner, who directs her to the U.S. Office of Information. She is seen inside the main hallway of the Office of Information. They direct her to an availble room at the former French Embassy building at the intersection of 16th Street and Kalorama Road NW in Washington DC, by Meridian Hill Park. She enters the building which that narrator says serves as a hotel for girls. She talks to a receptionist in the main hall lobby and then ascends the stairs. Phyllis Hood along with two other girls seated inside a room. They talk amongst themselves and relax. Woman hangs nylon stockings from a hanger to dry. The women going to sleep at night and turning out bedside lights. A large room with an operations maps, and clocks on the curved wall showing time in various international cities.
Opening scene shows large numbers of U.S. Army soldiers taken prisoners in the final German counter offensive of World War 2, known as the Battle of the Ardennes or Battle of the Bulge. German photographer concentrates on African American soldiers in the group, with closeups of many, juxtaposing them with closeups of German soldiers. A German Panzer IV tank passes a hillside where many American prisoners are seated on the ground. A horse-drawn wagon and a Panzer III tank pass the hillside, and then the American prisoners are herded, under guard toward the road below. Scene shifts to German soldiers sharing captured American foods and cigarettes. Several German soldiers in camouflage uniforms. One carries an M34 machine gun with a circular magazine. A dozen German soldiers are seen crowded atop a Sturmgeschütz III (StuG III) assault gun. Closeup of crewmen on a tank. Another mans a machine gun. Closeup of another machine gunner atop a tank. Several German Panzer V ("Panther") tanks drive through a village.
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