Activity in a hospital in Brazil built by Ford Motor Company to support Ford rubber production. This is possibly part of the Ford facility at Belterra, after the closure of the Fordlandia facility. A dentists examines a patient's teeth. A woman seated in a chair in the background. A technician looks through a microscope. A doctor checks heart beat with a stethoscope. A man with a tag on his shirt being photographed. Small houses on a hillside with a car parked in front of one of them.
Ford Motor Company rubber production in Brazil. Brazilian farmers work in a field in Brazil, possibly part of Ford's Belterra rubber plantation. A group of Brazilian natives picks sprouted rubber tree seeds from the ground and put them in hats. Men use a wooden platform to determine the location of holes to be dug in the ground with sticks. Women drop seedlings in the holes to plant new rubber trees. A boy holds a hat full of seedlings. Small rubber tree plants. A group of men dig up small trees and cut tap roots of the trees. Workers dig up a large hole and plant small trees in it.
A Ford Motor Company rubber plantation in Brazil (possibly part of Belterra). A Brazilian worker scoring a rubber tree. He places a can below a tap to collect latex. The worker nails a heavy cable at an angle around the rubber tree, chops off the bark below the cable and packs mud around the cable. He hangs a can at the lower end of the cable. The worker lights a fire and places a large can with holes on its top over the fire. He pours latex from a cup over a stick that is held over the smoke from fire. (World War II period).
German soldiers battle against the British in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II. A map shows Gibraltar, Algiers in Algeria, Tunis and German advancement. A fleet of German aircraft in flight. British ships in the Mediterranean Sea. German ships fire torpedoes at British ships. An explosion on a British ship. German aircraft drop bombs over British ships. The Germans on a ship deck. The British ship sinking.
German soldiers battle against the British in area of Tobruk Libya during World War II. A map shows the coast of Libya, highlighting Tobruk. A German officer standing with German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel atop a hill and looking through binoculars. German troops with Panzer Tanks including Pz.III, Pz.IV and Italian tanks advance across an open ground. An armored vehicle tows artillery. German soldiers make a barbed wire fencing. A danger signboard (skull face). German soldiers take positions with rifles in trenches in sand terrain. Officers look at a map. German artillery in position to fire. The soldiers load and fire the artillery. Wrecked British aircraft on the ground. German Stuka dive bomber aircraft attack British positions. Fire and explosions on the ground.
Sunken boats and ship in a harbor in North Africa, during World War 2. One sunken boat displays what appears to be a red Moroccan flag. Sunken Ship and building ruins. Several boats scattered on shore. A U.S. B-17 bomber flies over the area, in the distance. An allied soldier stands at the shore and throws stones into the water. A sunken ship in water near him.
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