A film titled 'Hannibal Victory' depicts how victory ship, SS Hannibal Victory delivered a cargo of 8 railroad locomotives, tenders, flatcars, rails etc. from San Francisco to the U.S. Army in the Philippines. A small boat at the edge of the Mississippi River. A steamboat underway in the Mississippi River. A man stands at a deck of the steamboat. A man operates a navigation wheel. Horn of the steamboat blows. The man operating the navigation wheel. The steamboat underway in the river. A railway bridge across the Mississippi River. A train passes over the bridge. The statue of famous American Author Samuel Langhorne Clemens also known as Mark Twain. Two women walk up steps. A plaque reads about Mark Twain. The statue of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Traffic on a street. People walk on a pathway. A railroad station. Smoke comes out from locomotives. Wheels of the freight cars. Men assembling the freight car wheels. A close up of the wheel with 'Hannibal' written on it. Animated map depicts the transport of freight car wheels from Hannibal to San Francisco. The wheels are hoisted and taken aboard a U.S. Merchant Marine ship in San Francisco. A man aboard the ship operate the controls. Several views of the wheels loaded aboard the ship. Ships at a port. War supplies are taken aboard a merchant ship. Two men seated in the foreground. A ship with a U.S. flag.
A train wreck in Austria. Rail cars in a river after an engine gets derailed over a trestle. A few rail cars in water and one of them on a marshy slope along the river. Several men in the area of the wreck in which two people were killed and all passengers got injured. The cars in the river.
United States Army Quartermaster Corps depots in the United States. A port in the United States. Men at work in the port. The port of embarkation, during World War I, filled with the supplies for the soldiers being sent by the manufacturer due to the lack of sufficient depots for storage of supplies. Cars carry supplies to New York port. A map of the United States shows filler depots at ports of embarkation across the nation. A pictorial representation of New York port, being huge, taking supplies from three nearest filler depots. Another map shows reserve depots in four locations. Manufacturing depots in two locations - Philadelphia where clothing is manufactured and Jeffersonville hardware is manufactured. A manufacturing depot in which women sew different clothing. Workers at equipment in a manufacturing depot. The Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot where items are manufactured and which is also a reserve depot for clothing. Rolled flags in wheel carts hauled by workmen in the depot. Workers during the inscription work of insignias on the flags. View of the insignia. Horses moving in columns on a path. Newly purchased horses and mules trained in areas provided by the Quartermaster Corps. Dogs bred in an area. The corps with the dogs. A map of the United States shows remount depots in three locations.
United States Army Quartermaster Corps overseas supply procedure in the United States. A pictorial representation of Quartermaster Corps overseas supplies reaching a port of debarkation. Quartermaster Corps unload supplies from a ship. A crane carrying loads of supplies at the port. A pictorial representation of Quartermaster Corps running the system of supply through communication zone to combat zone. Quartermaster Corps in a combat zone. The corps in a line beside a truck. The U.S. Army soldiers line up to take a shower. A train moving on a track. Trucks moving on a road. Boxes of supplies waiting to be picked up. The corps standing beside the boxes. Representation of a base depot near a port of debarkation where more perishable items are stored. Meat hung in the depot. An open air depot where less perishable items are stored. Stacks of materials in the depot. A truck moving away from the area. A pictorial representation of supplies being taken by rail, truck or boat from base depots to advance depots. Dummy depots to confuse enemy aircraft. Pictorial representation of supplies being taken from advance depots to regulating stations to maintain the regularity of supplies to combat divisions. Rail cars moving on a rail track and people in view. Representation of supplies being moved to a rail head. The supplies are moved from the rail head to the combat zone and by trucks to division distributing points. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers in Cherbourg, France after the invasion of France by Allied forces during World War II. A locomotive moves into a railroad yard. The engine of the train emits smoke. U.S. soldiers and French civilians repair tracks. U.S. soldiers and French civilians drive in spikes.
Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. U.S. President John F. Kennedy with Premier of Algeria Ahmed Ben Bella in the White House lawn in Washington DC. Aerial views of Havana, Cuba. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro accompanies Premier Bella in Havana. A U.S. rocket is launched. A man follows the ascent through telescope. Defense department training given in fall out protection to engineers. Surveyors check every building for civil defense. A community fall out shelter being located by the surveyors. Food and water drums, medical supplies and radiological monitoring equipment are taken off assembly lines and are transported by rail to various parts of the U.S. A sign reads 'Naval Supply Center Oakland'. Forklift trucks move goods. A sign erected for a community fallout shelter. An election campaign in the United States shows Harry S. Truman making a speech at an American Legion meeting.
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