A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows camouflaged aerodromes which are covered with chicken wire and feathers in jungles of the Solomon Islands. A man opens a window of an Italian hot dog stand which was actually a German pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as a farmhouse. A U.S. Army soldier handles mats of a matted house. A soldier looks at windows painted on a pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as an entertainment outlet. A dummy building which hides a bridge. A German airfield disguised as a decoy village in Belgium. Buildings in the village. A jeep drives on a road in the village. Men move a sliding wall of a phony building. Helmets and shirts on branches to appear as dummy soldiers. A man near a dummy soldier. Vehicles roll past in France. An artillery piece hidden in thick vegetation. U.S. soldiers watching the film in a theater in the United States.
American troops arrive in the Philippines during World War II. Landing crafts approach a shore in the Philippines. Nearly 4000 American soldiers, who participated in the Italian campaign, get off the landing crafts. The soldiers board a truck. Women workers serve snacks and coffee to the soldiers.
A United States Navy PV-3 helicopter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PV-3 helicopter with a capacity of 10 passengers on a field. Rotor blades rotate. Men and women board the helicopter. The helicopter lifts off and in flight. Twin rotors of the helicopter rotate while it is in the flight.
A Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle, Washington during World War 2. Exteriors of the Boeing manufacturing plant. Many different camouflaged buildings at the plant. Camouflaged roofs of the plant. Girls on the garden like terrace of the plant. Artificial trees on the roof top fashioned with camouflage materials. Young women sun bathe on the roof top and walk on paths of an area showing different camouflage methods that disguise the plant facilities from possible enemy aircraft overhead. Direction signs in the area show the intersection of "Synthetic Street" and "Burlap Boulevard".
The city of Toledo in Ohio. View of buildings in Toledo. Railroad trains at a station. Women near a clothesline outside a house. Women come down the stairs of a house. Cars on a street. Men work on a model of Toledo of tomorrow. A model of a congestion free express highway in Toledo.
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 Skytrain aircraft lays wires in the United States during World War II. Men work on an equipment as they prepare for aerial wire laying. A C-47 aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight as it lays wires over a difficult terrain. A man speaks over a field phone after the communication wires have been laid.
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