Allied operations in Germany during World War II. A map of Germany. A headline in a newspaper reads 'Russians strike Berlin'. People stand on a bridge in Cologne. View of Cologne cathedral. Past events show Nazi troops during a parade in March, 1936, crossing the River Rhine during rearmament of Germany. U.S. soldiers in advance in Germany in 1945, in combat from house to house in a German town. The German soldiers being taken as prisoners of war. Scenes with Nazi German soldiers with their hands up in the air. A large group of German Prisoners of War being marched on a road under guard by American soldiers. Allied aircraft bombard German towns. P-38 aircraft taking off and gun camera footage while strafing a target. P-38 landing on a snow covered airfield. An American single-propeller fighter aircraft crash lands with difficulty and slides into another parked aircraft on the snow. Aerial views of B-24 and B-17 aircraft in formation flight. Bombs being dropped in night bombing raids and day bombing raids over Berlin, Germany. Smoke rises. Aircraft in flight as they leave behind vapor trails. United States soldiers on the ground in combat with enemy Germans in a German town. Infantrymen fire rifles and advance house to house. Wounded Americans being carried on litters for medical care. Germans fire at the wounded Americans.Sergeant Peter Di Guiseppi, from Pennsylvania, of 1st Armored Division, being interviewed. Private Pat Brady of Hollywood California narrates an incident where a gunner aboard a tank fired fiercely at the enemy. He talks about tanks getting caught in a fire and the following rescue efforts.
Two United States Women’s Army Corps (WAC) personnel (Corporal Mary B. McGillicudy of San Francisco, California and Private Barbara Brophy of Salem, Massachusetts) and Private Merrit Rawley (Great Barrington, Massachusetts) of the United States Army walking into marshalling yards in Foggia, Italy during World War II. A smokestack and piles of rubble are seen in the background. The WAC personnel and private walk over train tracks. View of completely demolished boxcar. The soldier helps the two WAC personnel to climb into an abandoned railcar. The two WAC personnel and enlisted man peer through windows of train. The trio inspects train wreckage. Corporal Mary B. McGillicudy and Private Barbara Brophy of the WAC smiling. Private Merrit Rawley stands in front of abandoned Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian state railways) trains.
Film begins with views from a camera in an overhead conveyor at the Ford Rouge River steel mill in Dearborn, Michigan. It focuses on a hot ingot of steel moving through a succession of nine consecutive rollers. Each roller reduces the size of the ingot, until it becomes a long rod of hot steel, many yards long. It is then transferred horizontally, across an array of rails. Change of scene shows another ingot, in a different part of the plant, moving through a set of rollers along the side of factory shop. Next, a hot ingot is seen discharged from a chute. Camera follows as it passes through a series of water-cooled rollers. Long rods of hot steel are then seen being channeled to a converging point on a conveyor, where they flip sideways and reverse course. A new view shows men using poles to guide ribbons of hot steel in and out of rollers. Change of scene shows long ribbons of hot steel being automatically moved along conveyors into large saws that cut them into desired lengths. The ribbons of steel are then moved sideways to an extremely long and wide sort of table, where they are transferred, by devices that keep them aligned and prevent them from breaking or damage during movement.
U.S. Army patrol on skis in Alaska, United States. Air Force personnel hitch dog. Dog team with a sled as its gets underway along side of fence and team moves on a trail in woods. Army patrol wearing skis and white camouflage clothing as they hold to a tow line. Dog sled as team moves over a trail in woods. USA weasel pulls USA patrol men wearing skis and white camouflage clothing over a snow-covered ground. Dog sled go down trail in woods. Dogs rest.
Scenes of American airlift techniques for mass troop and equipment movement during the Cold War. Map shows plan for movement of a full combat ready division (16,000 men) to Europe. Various USAF MATS (Military Air Transport Service) aircraft seen: Low aerial view of long line of C-130 aircraft parked on airfield. U.S. soldiers boarding long line of USAF airplanes. View of a Boeing C-135 Stratolifter taking off. Scenes of American soldiers reading and playing cards during air travel. Aerial view of three F-105 fighter aircraft in flight. U.S. Army soldiers exiting C-124 aircraft through large rear doors and loading trucks with equipment. A long convoy of U.S. tanks and armored equipment and troop carrier vehicles on European roads as soldier directs movement of the same.
A U.S. Navy recruitment film about high school students' interest in joining the United States Navy. The film is titled "The Navy?" An interviewer asks high school students what they think about the navy. The students are wearing typical mid 1970s fashions. Some of them have long hair and a "hippie" look. Some of the teenage kids say it is important to have a Navy and some say it is a waste of money and is destructive. A long hair teenager says that we don't need ships anymore. Several teenage girls express support for Navy careers. An African American boy standing in front of a school bus talks positively about a Navy career and how he doesn't want to be hanging around on the corner anymore. About the importance of the Navy and desire to join it students give varying answers. Interviewer discusses the Navy with a group of students. A boy interested in joining the Navy is seen playing basketball and watching television. His mother says that joining navy would be the best thing for him. He discusses about his life and why he wants to join the navy. The boy, who has long hippie style hair, is seen working on a car with a friend. He is seen jumping across the tops of railroad cars of a parked train. He throws a stone from a bridge, and is seen walking along deserted railroad tracks.
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