A propaganda film titled "Angel in Overalls" by the U.S. Army aimed at praising and encouraging war materiel production workers in the U.S. who are building aircraft and other weaponry for U.S. soldiers in World War 2. Aerial scenes of clouds and formations of B-24 Liberator aircraft on their way to a day light bombing run over Germany. Interior views of B-24 cockpit area and other parts of B-24 aircraft as crew perform their duties. Bombardier using sighting equipment to evaluate path toward target. Mix of staged and actual battle scenes. Mock dialog between crew members is heard. Simulation of view through bombardier scope is seen. Bomb bay doors seen opening. Flak bursts and phosphorous bombs seen exploding nearby. Smoke streaming out from one of the B-24 aircraft in formation after it is hit by enemy fire. Machine gunner opens fire at an incoming enemy aircraft. Several views of machine guns being fired. Views of ammunition casings falling the floor as the guns are fired. Hit enemy aircraft are seen exploding and breaking up in air. Close-up view of a P-38 Lightning aircraft joining the group in combat. Scene of a P-38 aircraft production factory assembling P-38 planes in the United States. Narration encourages the work of P-38 production plant workers. P-38 aircraft during building and assembly operations. Formation of four P-38 aircraft in flight. Aerial views of a P-38 in flight. Gun camera footage showing strafing of a German target at the edge of a forest of trees.
Block houses for German soldiers on the Eastern front in World War II. Russian war prisoners with axes cut down the trees into logs from snow covered forest areas. Men with hatchets and saws cut logs and smooth them for use in construction. War prisoners construct the block houses while German soldiers instruct and inspect them. Views of constructed block houses covered with snow. German soldiers work, drink, smoke, and relax in the block houses. View of several block houses in snow covered areas.
Near Salerno, Italy. British soldiers marching at the road sides. Soldiers with barracks bags on their back moving as a red cross trucks passes by them on the road. Army tanks and trucks moving on the narrow roadway and then leaving the roadway towards the forests. Two soldiers digging in a grove. Images at dusk of tanks and troops moving forward. Black smoke rising in the background. (World War II period).
Two lumberjack men cutting a tree in a snow covered forest. The tree falls down. The man stand by in knee-deep snow. Felled trees loaded on Fordson tractor-driven sled and taken to sawmill. Logs being moved on the conveyor belts in the sawmill and then passed through the band cutter.
View of a Ford model-T outfitted with special wheels, moving on railroad tracks. A long line of Ford Model-T cars on a mountainous dusty road. Forest of tall trees and mountains visible at the sides of the road. Scenes of Ford-Model-T cars successfully navigating off-road, down steep embankments and ledges, and then down onto established roads.
A road leading to Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico. Clouds loom over the Magdalena Mountains ahead. A sign for Langmuir Laboratory. Dry fields on either side of the road. A car driven on the long straight road. A roadside sign reads: 'Cibola National Forest'. Trees flank the road.