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The Director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) christens USS Franklin (CV-13) in Newport News.

U.S. Navy ships launched in the United States during World War II. Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, USNR (US Navy Reserve), Director of the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of a carrier and christens USS Franklin (CV-13) in Newport News, Virginia on 14th October, 1943. A destroyer is launched at the Great Lakes. The destroyer is turned into an upright position. Shipyard workers cheer. A ship is launched sideways.

Location: Newport News Virginia USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075236
U.S. Army Air Forces B-17F Flying Fortresses bomb targets in Regensburg, Germany during 'Shuttle Mission' of World War II.

Strategic bombing attack 'Shuttle Mission' by B-17 Flying Fortresses of the U.S. Army Air Forces on August 17, 1943 over Germany during World War II. A formation of B-17Fs over Germany. Vapor trails left by the airplanes. Aerial view of a German city. Smoking targets. B-17Fs over the Alps. A B-17 aircraft with a damaged tail flies over Regensburg, Germany. A B-17 aircraft with a damaged nose. Aerial view of African coastline. Mountainous terrain of Algiers, Algeria. Aerial view of barracks in Algiers. B-17Fs land on a field.

Location: Regensburg Germany
Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075263
U.S. recruits being classified for assignments and being informed about the progress of World War II and why they fight.

New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another news map and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and other refugees boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 9 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075794
Acceleration test of Argus pipe engine for V-1 missile.View of rocket sled catapult. Peenemunde-West Test Center, Germany

Winter, 1943, testing at German Air Force Test Center, Peenemunde-West, Germany. Acceleration test of Argus engine for V-1. Test vehicle with Argus jet engine is readied on launch rail and men stand behind it. Snow is falling. A man stands on snow covered ground and directs. The Argus jet engine ignites and vehicle accelerates, leaving track to crash into ice and snow covered water. Views of the Rheinmetal-Borsig solid propellant rocket sled catapult, for V-1, on a rail.

Location: Peenemunde Germany
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675031610
Ford motor Company GPA amphibious jeeps are demonstrated and tested by the U.S. Army during World War II

Several Ford Motor Company GPA amphibious jeeps driven by U.S. Army soldiers, cause big splashes as they drive into a river during a demonstration and test.in World War 2. They are a sample of so-called "Seeps" or "Sea Jeeps," assembled at the company's River Rouge complex, near Detroit, Michigan, from 1942-1943. View from behind a soldier driving one of them. Various views of the Sea Jeeps navigating singly and in groups and formations in the water. The soldiers in them are dressed in battle gear with weapons and steel helmets. One by one, the Sea Jeeps are seen driving out of the river up onto the river bank. Scene shifts to an area with military trucks and other vehicles parked. Three Army soldiers on motorcycles lead a long line of Sea Jeeps filled with soldiers through that area and along a highway

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031864
Police and U.S. military patrol streets to control the crowds and extinguish burning auto during race riots in Detroit Michigan

Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1943, June
Duration: 1 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032040
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