Several ships at a dock scrapped. Workers with acetylene torches cut sections from side. Crane lifts sections from ship. A crane moves a pile of scrape. Train load of scrap moves into plant. Huge press cuts and crushes the scrap. Electro- magnet on crane moves scrap.
View of a hot metal (iron) mixer at the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. Molten iron from ladle on a crane flows into the mixer. Mixed molten iron from several heats is later poured into the ladle. Crane carries the bucket and pours iron into an open hearth furnace. Crane moves the ladle at the rear of the open hearth furnace after the iron is converted to steel. Steel is poured in and the crane moves the ladle; a slag pot can be seen to the left of the ladle to catch the lighter slag runoff (not shown). A train of ingot molds is seen moving to be filled with the molten steel.
Train load of hot ingots moves through a plant yard at the Ford River Rouge plant in United States. Ingots removed from soaking pit by a crane and dropped into blooming mill. Ingots rolled into rods.
Locomotives and freight cars move in and out of a large freight yard of the Wabash Railroad, somewhere in the mid-central United States. "Wabash" visible on the side of a boxcar. Railroad train loaded with coal moves along track. Close view of an engine moving out, with heavy smoke emitted from the engine's stack.
Aerial view of a large truck convoy moving along a road. American troops aboard the convoy. The troops head for practice maneuvers as part of training in the United States before deploying to World War II front lines. The convoy stops and soldiers rush out and pitch tents. Rifles together in a tripod. Troops form a chow line outside a tent and eat their food.
American 26th Infantry troops do calisthenics (physical exercises.) at the Gondrecourt Training area of the First Division of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France during World War 1.
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