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Colleges prepare students for military and civil occupations useful in World War 2 war effort, United States.

Aerial view of U.S. Army B-17 bomber aircraft flying in formation. Crew working and looking at charts inside a bomber aircraft. Vought OS2U Kingfisher taking off from deck of aircraft carrier. Military vehicles cross pontoon bridge. Gun crew beside a gun. Men operate artillery. Graduation at Annapolis in Maryland. Various colleges across United States, including view of Dartmouth Hall at Darthmouth College; Andrew Dickson White seated statue at Cornell University, from behind, with McGraw Tower in background; view of traffic on streets of University of Texas campus with the UT Tower in the background; an unidentified college building. President of Purdue University, Edward C Elliott at desk gives a speech. Airplanes parked at Purdue University Airport. Instructor talks with college students in civilian clothing who are learning to fly. Tuskegee school students before war. Fliers operate planes at Tuskegee airfield in Alabama. Men attend ground crew classes. Pilots outside laboratory to learn meteorology. At the University of Virginia, in the aeronautical department, students are seen learning principles of aircraft design use of wind tunnels. Mechanical Engineering college students work with equipment. Student work with communication devices. Medical college trains doctors and nurses. View of the University of Virginia School of Medicine building facing University Avenue. Men and women students in laboratory with test tubes and various tests underway. Another scenes shows a student working in a blood bank. Military messages and various diplomatic terms are taught to students by instructors. Students in Chinese and Japanese library at Harvard University learn Asian relations. Scientists work with selected students. U.S. Navy sailors in uniform work at Purdue University. Some are seen training as electricians. Other training classes are seen at Cornell Universtiy. At a Law school lecture auditorium of the University of Virginia law school, high ranking officers learn how to control occupied territory. At Tulane Medical school, officers learn how to fight tropical diseases. Army medical officers look through microscopes in a Tulane laboratory. Cadets at Quartermaster School at the Harvard School of Business are seen receiving instruction in how to manage army camps. They learn how to supervise camp kitchens. Students at Cornell University in a nutrition department laboratory are working to create vitamin rich, compact foods to be condensed in small blocks and carried in aviator kits. At a University of California laboratory, a students works to dehydrate foods to one fifth of their former size. Dehydrated fruits and vegetables are shown being weighed. African American students are trained at Hampton Institute. They are seen in the classroom, in a science laboratory, and working in a machine shop turning out war materiel. African American students learn welding in a shop classroom, and then some are shown working at shipyards. Men work with field equipment. Training of ROTC cadets is given at many schools including Perdue University. Cadets handle modern rifles, military vehicles, and learn artillery skills. Cadets beside a stadium at Texas A&M University put on gas masks and are trained for gas-raids. Cadets learn to thrown hand grenades. Navy ROTC students at Georgia Tech learn naval tactics. A groups of California students study a torpedo. Tulane University Navy ROTC students learn ship gun skills. Navy ROTC students in Virginia board a ship to learn practical sea skills. At University of North Carolina, students in the Naval pre-flight program attend fitness classes, do formation calisthenic exercises, learn boxing, and hand-to-hand combat. Navy cadets at a swimming pool practice swimming and diving skills, including fully clothed diving and swimming, and swimming under simulated burning oil.

Date: 1942
Duration: 10 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052263
United States 6th Battalion tanks fire over plain in Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands.

Marines of 6th Marine Regiment 22nd Marines advance in Okinawa. Tanks move across plain. Tanks fire out over plain. M4A3 tank and Marines moves along road. Four M4A2 tanks move out from cover onto plain. M4A2 under cover of trees. Marine behind the turret of tank uses binoculars. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, June 14
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052810
U.S. 1st Marine Division invades the Palau Islands during World War II.

Film opens with animated map showing places in the Pacific near the island of Palau. A formation of U.S. B-24 Liberator bombers is seen in flight. Glimpse from the air of the Palau archipelago. Aerial view from a B-24 of its bombs exploding on the center of a Japanese airfield below. Aerial view of a U.S. Independence-class Aircraft carrier of Task Force 58. Officers and sailors on carrier island watch as a Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft takes off .from the aircraft displays geometric marking on its tail, known as a "G-symbol." In this case it is a large white diamond containing the airplane number inside another diamond. (The United States Navy Pacific Fleet, assigned G-Symbols to the CV and CVL class carriers of Task Force 58. These were assigned to each carrier and appeared on all aircraft operating from it. ) A formation of Grumman TBF Avenger aircraft flying above clouds. Closeup of one with diamond G-symbol and number on its tail. Broad view from the air of TBF Avenger aircraft in flight and Navy warships maneuvering in waters below. Sea level views of some warships in the Third Fleet. One is a Portland-class Cruiser. Wide aerial view of ships in the task force. Cruisers and battleships bombarding Palau and nearby targets. Closeup of heavy cruiser USS Louisville (CA 28) firing her port side 5 inch 25 caliber guns and 40 mm A/A guns from the stern.. A TBF Avenger dive bombs a shore target. More views of warships with shells bursting in background. Shells bursting at the shoreline. Closeup glimpse of marines in landing craft U.S. Marine Corps LVT(A)4 Amphibious Tanks heading toward the beach on September 15, 1944. An LCI(L) Landing Craft Infantry (Large) firing close to shore. Shells striking shoreline installations. View from aircraft of landing craft speeding toward the beach and many more maneuvering offshore. Closeup of marines moving about on the shore of Palau with smoke rising and sounds of gunfire. A marine running through foliage at the shore. Marines manning a command post and communications center in the jungle. Marines firing rifles from a tree line. One firing a Browning M1919 machine gun and another throwing a hand grenade. Marines firing rifle grenades. Marines move forward and encounter a dead Japanese soldier lying next to his flame thrower. They reach the edge of the airfield, where two Japanese aircraft are just barely seen. They walk past dead Japanese at a machine gun emplacement. More views of Marines fighting at the edge of the airfield, and entering into the open area of the field, where fires are burning. .Wrecked Japanese aircraft are seen on the field. Marine infantry cross the field behind an M4 Sherman tank. Barges are seen carrying construction cranes and equipment to the island. A tracked crane drives onto the airfield. Bulldozers work on the edge of the airfield. A power shovel fills trucks with coral deposit material for resurfacing the airfield. Trucks dumping their contents at the field. Bulldozers and earth scrapers level the airfield surface. A TBF Avenger aircraft is the first to land on the unpaved airfield.

Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068877
U.S. 11th Armored Division moving deep into Germany in final months of World War II. German soldiers surrendering.

Elements of U.S. 11th Armored Division advancing in Germany during final months of World War 2. Momentary glimpse of three German corpsmen walking across a field wearing white aprons with large red crosses on them. The one in the center appears to be injured. American soldiers standing near German prisoners of war, who are seated on grass in meadow beside a road. Several military vehicles parked in grass across the road. Group of American soldiers standing near several jeeps and trucks. Surrendering German soldiers, with hands on their heads, running towards Americans. Smoke rising across the field. 11th Armored Division tanks driving down the road, including M4A3(76)W medium tank and a later version, the M4A3E8. Stationary tanks in field in background. U.S. tanks sit nearby as a building is consumed by fire. U.S. infantrymen running into town, past anti tank barriers. Camera focuses on demolition of anti tank barrier within town under guard of an M4A1 (75) medium tank

Date: 1945, March
Duration: 2 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076288
Japanese warships and aircraft engaged in war maneuvers at sea just prior to World War II in the Pacific.

Nine Japanese Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" planes, in triangle formation, fly over the Japanese battleship, Nagato. Japanese officers seen on the bridge, including Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who is seen using binoculars. His Admiral's flag flies above the Japanese Naval Ensign on the mast of the battleship. Ship's Officers assembled on the bridge, review charts. Several officers on deck using instruments to determine sun elevation. Sailor sends blinker light signal. Another sends semaphore flag signals. A Japanese submarine is seen moving on the surface parallel to the course of the battleship. Japanese sailors at various lookouts using binoculars. A bugler blows call to battle stations. Nagato's 45-caliber 41-centimeter (16 inch) guns swing to port firing position. Crew members hurry to battle stations. View of engine room with pistons moving and sailor at controls. Camera pans heavy wake from the ship and focuses on starboard bow wave and then shifts views to wakes astern. A flight of three open cockpit Mitsubishi A5M ("Claude") aircraft is seen overhead. A Mitsubishi F1M reconnaissance float plane passes close overhead. Glimpse of a warship's gun barrels. Several Mitsubishi A5M aircraft fly low overhead. Sailors wearing gas masks watch from a warship. Several different views of warships firing antiaircraft guns during training drill. A pair of A5M aircraft fly by as antiaircraft guns fire. A pair of Mitsubishi F1M reconnaissance float planes pass. Smoke is seen coming from interior of ship. Sailors in gas masks rush to the source. Crewmen below decks don gas masks as part of the drill. Smoke obscures much ot the next scenes. View from deck of ship shows two 16-inch guns and heavy smoke (from funnels of battleships). Line of destroyers seen following behind other warships. Various views of heavy wakes from ships underway.

Date: 1941
Duration: 4 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027698
U.S. Marines of 7th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, ride U.S. Army tanks in their advance at Peleliu Island, Palau, in World War II.

U.S. Marines of 7th Marine Regiment hitch rides on U.S. Army tanks advancing towards Japanese positions on Peleliu Island, Palau, during World War 2. View of Japanese writing on a sign. Marines riding on M4 Sherman tank advance on road. View of machine gun with turret over M4 Sherman. Marines with M1 rifles walk along beside tanks.

Date: 1944, October 9
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022876