Film opens showing large factory building with all its lights on at night. Smoke stacks at industrial plant emitting white smoke against dark sky. Sparks flying outdoors from a steel plant at night. War production workers inside a fabricating plant drawing a ribbon of hot steel from a roller and dragging a newly made sheet of metal across the floor. Two men with shovels stoking a furnace. Men shaping parts on forging machines. A group of men using sledge hammers to drive down pipe supports under a large piece of sheet metal. Women employees at work inspecting U.S. Army helmets on an assembly line. Workers in a crowded machine shop. A sign reading: "500 workers needed NOW Training on the job." A display of job recruitment announcements in newspapers. A room full of idle manufacturing machinery (ostensibly due to labor shortages). Sign on iron fence outside a building, reads: "Essential WAR WORK Day or Night Men and Women" and "We have a war job for you. Apply here." Some more similar signs. Animated chart of Labor Needs with Labor supply lagging behind, superimposed on a drawing of a defense plant. Map of the USA highlighting areas of industrial might where labor shortages exist. Camera zooms in on Dayton, Ohio on the map. Aerial views all over the city of Dayton, Ohio. View from a tall building overlooking a major Dayton commercial street. The Gem City Savings building, with clock tower on top, at the corner of Third and Main streets. On April 7, 1943, two hundred leading citizens of Dayton are seen attending a meeting at which Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, is speaking. He speaks about the danger of Dayton falling behind its war production goals because of manpower difficulties. View of the audience, which includes several military officers in uniform. Allyn speaks of the potential for war work being moved elsewhere because of this, and challenges Dayton's leaders to solve the problem without requiring action from Washington. Next, an emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. In final scene, Stanley Allyn is seen at the head of the table, speaking to the group. He outlines three ways to obtain more war workers from the Dayton population during World War II.
Arrival of an Allied troop transport ship at a port in France during World War I. British troops disembark along with carriage supplies and mobilize on docks with horses and troops. Troops from New Zealand board trains headed for the war front.
Opening few seconds show American General John J. Pershing viewing a grave marker at a fresh cemetery in France during World War I. Next scene shows Australian troops dig trenches in France during World War 1. Australian troops at a destroyed railroad yard. Group of French men and women and children civilians pose for the camera, while British troops stand in background. Close up of an old French woman. The elderly French woman is talking and appears to be expressing thanks to the Allied troops and potentially grief from the devastation of the war. Soldiers on foot pass by a bomb wrecked French town with buildings reduced to piles of rubble from shelling. British troops and supplies on horse carts pass by the streets of the demolished town. British lancer cavalry regiment passes by on horseback, with lances raised. New Zealand soldiers march on railroad tracks to board a train.
Documentary tilted 'Rolling To The Rhine'. On the U.S. Army "Red Ball Express" operation for transportation of supplies and equipment during World War 2. Bronze Star medal is displayed. Montage shows a pilot, infantryman and a paratrooper. The bronze star is awarded to a truck driver in France for heroism. Railway station in Pennsylvania, boxing match in Oklahoma, and Chicago subway train. Red Ball railroad express underway. Trucks are gassed, driven through slush, and carry supplies to the war front. ' We Deliver' written on trucks. U.S. soldiers and convoy in France. An 8-tire trailer, several disabled trucks, and Military Policemen direct traffic in France.
Passengers aboard a Rhine River steamer in Germany. Tourists watch the scenes along the Rhine River. Passengers dining onboard. View of the Wertheim Castle (Schloßgasse 11, 97877 Wertheim, Germany) in Baden-Württemberg. Ferry transport carries men and vehicles across the lake. Ship captain steers ship’s wheel. Passenger ships underway in the Rhine. A town near Lake Constance in Germany. A train heading for Scandinavia leaves Lake Constance. A Seedienst Ostpreußen ferry sailing the Baltic Sea to the German exclave of East Prussia.
Railway train crosses river bridge in Germany. German Transatlantic steamer at a dock in Germany. Travel guides talk to tourists.
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