Soldiers in full battle dress test drive Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. Film begins showing an amphibious jeep backing up in a marsh and then plunging into a river. View of two soldiers standing guard on a bridge, as several jeeps drive under it in the water. Flotilla of jeeps maneuvering in the water. Glimpse of two soldiers standing on the bridge as a jeep passes underneath. Closeup of a jeep driving up onto a river bank. Closeup of one driving past the camera. View from atop the bridge, where the two soldiers are standing. View downward from bridge as a jeep passes underneath. View from bridge as jeeps pass in both directions in the water underneath.
Numerous views of amphibious jeeps racing from land into a river in Army tests of Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. The jeeps carry Army troops with full field packs. After plunging into the water, a group of the jeeps drives through the water in loose formation at a relatively slow speed. Closeups os several jeeps leaving the water and climbing a river bank.
The National Broadcasting Company in Hollywood, California. Sign on a building reads 'NBC'. Traffic in front of the National Broadcasting Company(NBC). Pedestrian traffic in front of the building, including some military personnel in uniform (it is during World War 2).
African American soldiers during a studio recording in Hollywood, California. Interior of the NBC Broadcasting Studio. An announcer introduces the radio program named "Jubilee." U.S. military personnel seated in the control booth laugh. African American soldiers seated in the studio. They laugh and clap during the recording. American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, and American comic actor Eddie Anderson, who plays Rochester, on the Jack Benny show, are at microphone. recording on stage. Soldiers laugh and clap. (World War II period).
A command radio performance at the 20th Century Fox studio in Hollywood, California during World War II. Don Wilson, an American announcer and Carole Landis, an American film actress give a radio performance. Don Wilson reads a request from soldiers abroad to hear Carole Landis sigh. Carole Landis gives an audible sigh to fulfill the request. Board in the background reads 'Command performance U. S. A. war dept'. A Captain and a soldier at work.
A documentary created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services), United States. It exemplifies the usage of high frequency communication system called 'Joan and Eleanor'. A report on very high frequency communication system is seen. An OSS agent carries a small transmitter/receiver called 'Joan'. A USAF (United States Air Force) reconnaissance airplane in flight. Borne transmitter/receiver is inside the 'Eleanor' reconnaissance airplane. Information relayed by agents.
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