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War industries lead to overcrowded cities and housing shortage in Mobile, Alabama; also pre-war poor housing in Mobile

Views of old Mobile Alabama downtown areas and homes during early 1940's. War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. Buildings in the city which now have been converted into homes for men war workers and women war production workers in the shipyards and factories making ships and airplanes, tanks, guns and other war material. A building converted into a dormitory for women. Men outside a building with a sign that reads ' Room board '. Girls in a room. A garage that has been converted into a boarding facility for women war workers. A tent area with a large number of migrant worker families living in it. Children play outside the tents. A woman washes clothes. A man cooks. A woman stands next to a cow and a man sits with his dog outside a shanty house. Next scene is pre-war view of dilapidated and run-down shacks housing African American families in Mobile. African American men, women, and children outside shanty houses in slum areas of Mobile. Scene changes to during war time again, with people at the office of the National Housing Agency. A sign reads ' Mobile housing board'. People at the office of the housing board.

Location: Mobile Alabama USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059207
After solving problems related to housing, war production goes up at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama in World War 2.

War industry leads to problems in Mobile, Alabama during World War II. A large number of people gathered outside the Personnel Office in Mobile. Congress provides 2 million dollars for housing of war workers (building tanks, guns, ships and other war material in factories, manufacturing plants, and shipyards for the war effort). Shows racially segregated housing and facilities for African American workers versus white workers. Views of a cleared slum area where African Americans had been living been living in poor quality homes before the war. Shortage of housing is addressed with new housing for African American war workers, "Certified Colored War Workers". African American children play and eat at a nursery. Dormitory units for single war workers equipped with gymnasium and other basic facilities. Government owned trailers built by the Maritime Commission near a ship yard. The problem of providing a day nursery is undertaken. Modern permanent homes for war workers who can afford them. After meeting the problems like housing and sanitation, production goes up at the ship yard. A new ship being launched at the ship yard. A sign on the ship reads ' Cedar Mills'.

Location: Mobile Alabama USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059208
U.S. Coast Guards march with sentry dogs along the Atlantic Coast in United States.

United States Coast Guards with sentry dogs in the United States. The coast guards in white uniforms as they march with the sentry dogs. They march on the Atlantic coast. Coast guard horsemen patrol the coast.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059286
Chiang Kai Shek reviews troops in China and reinforcements arrive in India during World War II.

Activities of the Allied forces in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. Chinese Premier Chiang Kai Shek and his wife arrive to review troops in ChungKing, China. Chinese nurses and soldiers march as General Chinag Kai Shek reviews the United Nations troops. Troops carry portraits of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Commander of China Burma India Theater General Joseph Stilwell arrives after attending a conference in Washington D.C. Reinforcements arrive in India as soldiers carry bags. Allied soldiers smoke with Indian soldiers. A soldier buys bananas from a vendor. In Indian state of Bengal mule pack trains cross Tibet as they carry supplies for China. Mule packs pass through the Himalayas.

Location: China-Burma-India Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059287
A U.S. Army jeep turns over during testing in the Pacific Theater of War during World War II.

Australian soldiers test a U.S. Army jeep in the Pacific Theater of World War II. An Australian soldier drives a scout jeep over a rough terrain. The jeep being driven rashly over the rough terrain. The jeep turns over but the driver escapes unhurt. An upturned jeep.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1943
Duration: 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059288
Tanks and ships being manufactured in the United States and transported to the war front during World War II.

Tanks and ships being manufactured in the United States during World War 2. U.S. Army tanks loaded on flat rail road cars as they leave factory for the war front during World War II. Workers at a plant as they work on the tanks. Women workers at manufacturing plant. Women workers test drive the tanks. The tanks loaded onto flat rail road cars for transportation to the war front. Ships being manufactured at a shipyard in the United States. War material (materiel) manufacturing process goes on round the clock. A smoke stack at the ship yard.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059289
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