U.S. Navy recruits (wearing white uniform) marching in drill field of the Naval Training Station in Norfolk, Virginia, before World War 2. Recruits marching with rifles and banners reading “Eighth Week” and “Training B Unit”. Recruits stand in place and a marching band plays music. Naval officers salute in front of recruits. United States flag in drill field. A wooden scale model of a battleship is seen near the field. A tent for guests to watch marching in drill field. Military band musicians play trumpets, flutes, and tuba (or sousaphone). Recruits and band standing in ranks. Recruits and military band march with the United States flag and banner across the drill field. Men standing in the middle of the drill field. Recruits perform calisthenics simultaneously.
Smiling woman worker outside the Fushun Oil Factory, a shale oil extraction facility, in Liaoning province, China during the Great Leap Forward. Oil storage tanks. A Chinese man in points to a propaganda cartoon drawn on a blackboard. Oil factory director wearing glasses and white shirt smiles, smokestacks behind. Chinese director shaking hands with an American visiting the oil refinery. American man wears a face mask. Man and woman lab technicians collect sample from a pipe and examine it in a graduated cylinder. The Fushun open pit coal mine. A jet of water in the open pit mine during hydraulic mining process. Water flows from mine. Cable cars on train tracks moving coal, hauling to the surface. Cable car containing coal is overturned into a hopper. Worker watches train rail cars full of coal pass by.
Railroad infrastructure development as part of United States aid in Iran. Men laying railroad tracks on a bridge. Donkey grazes and two men watch the construction in the foreground. A railroad track laying machine and workers hold a track. Man stands on top of track as a team of workers carry the track. Machine threshing rocks on track. Laborers use pickaxes and rakes to break up rocks. Teams of workers lay track on railroad. Laborers connect two railroad tracks. American engineer and Iranian official tighten bolts connecting last track section. Men moving a track. Workers crowd to watch two men fasten bolts. Workers cheering and clapping after the two men finished connecting the last track section. American engineer and Iranian official shake hands. Men watch a cargo train use the new tracks. A train rushes past camera in Iran.
Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) handles the distribution of incendiary bombs in Europe during World War II. Lieutenant Colonel R. N. Isbell of the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) makes calculations from his desk. An incendiary order addressed to the Commanding General is typed on a typewriter. Buses arrive at the motor pool of the United States War Department, now known as the Pentagon. Women disembark from the buses and head to the War Department. Employees working in the office inside the War Department. Men prepare bombs at an arsenal. Men hauling carts with large incendiary bombs in warehouse. A man stencils labels onto bomb that read, "PT-1 Incendiary," and "Bomb Burster." The United States flag waving on a ship. Ships carry a shipment of incendiary bombs to the United Kingdom. Incendiary bombs inside wooden crates are unloaded from ships. Steam locomotive train running on track as railroad signal activates. Incendiary bombs are removed from train cars. Two munitions are suspended on a crane. Trucks loaded with bombs drive out of the depot, passing past village cemetery. An Air Division Chemical Officer receives new shipment information. The Air Division Chemical Officer reads the document and updates bomb listings on chalkboard.
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Mediterranean training center in Cairo, Egypt at the Villa Abaza during World War 2. A car pulls in front of the building. OSS agents and radiomen in training attend a class. An instructor shows a large map of the Balkan region. Another professor points to a map of Italy. A trainee answers the professor. Trainees examine a map together. OSS trainees study land surveying outdoors.
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) radio operator training in the Middle East during World War II. OSS radio operator trainees attend a lecture. Trainees watch an OSS training film on “Strategic Services Transmitter Receiver Number 1”. An instructor teaches a class on secret codes. Radio trainees in telegraph class. Several Keyer TG-10-F morse code practice machines built by Gray Manufacturing play black messages while radio operators wearing headphones interpret coded results.
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