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A DUKW moves across a field and along a street in the United States.

A film on workings and general features of amphibious trucks DUKWs. A DUKW moves along a field in the United States. Tire pressure must be adjusted to get maximum speed and prevent damage to the tire. The DUKW moves along a street. A man comes out of the DUKW and checks the tires. He boards again and the DUKW moves.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050920
Men aboard a DUKW don life jackets before it enters water in the United States.

A film on workings and general features of DUKWs in the United States. Precautions must be taken before a DUKW enters water. Tire pressure should be checked and hatches and other things should also be checked. Men aboard a DUKW. They don life jackets. The propeller of the DUKW. The truck enters water and moves. Men work on the truck. A cable is tied on the bow of the DUKW.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050921
Men clean and check the lubrication of a DUKW in the United States.

A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Men aboard DUKWs underway at sea in the United States. They learn about navigation. Men discuss the course undertaken by the DUKWs. They don life preserver jackets. They head in for a landing. Traffic rules should be followed while driving a DUKW. The DUKWs move along a beach. They move in water. An officer addresses men at a beach. The men at work. They clean the DUKW. Lubrication is checked and rechecked.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050922
Cargo handling aboard a DUKW underway at sea in the United States.

A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Soldiers aboard a DUKW underway at a sea in the United States. A ship underway in the foreground. Cargo handling aboard a DUKW. Cargo from a freighter is unloaded by A-frame and hog troughs. Cargo is unloaded from the ship onto the DUKW. The DUKW underway with the cargo. The amphibious truck beaches and moves across a wooded area. A man signals. Unloading activities being undertaken. A DUKW underway at sea near a ship. A truck moves along a field. Men stand nearby. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050923
A DUKW is used to transport wounded from a shore to a ship in the United States.

A film on workings and general features of DUKWs. Men carry wounded on stretchers in the United States. The wounded are loaded aboard a DUKW in a wooded area. The wounded on litters in the DUKW. The amphibious truck gets into water. It approaches a ship. The DUKW is carried onto the ship. Trucks move along a beach. Men stand at attention near parked DUKWs.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050924
American army soldiers and Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) members are greeted upon arrival in England during World War II

Film begins showing American troops crowding the upper open deck of a ship bringing them to a pier in England during World War 2. They are in full battle gear including steel helmets and bed rolls. As the ship moves against the pier, English women begin throwing scones to the men. Closeup of one chewing on a scone. After the ship docks, an army officer and a First officer of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) walk together up a gang plank to the pier. Her cap is the so-called "Hobby Cap" named for Oveta Culp Hobby, the first Commandant of the WAAC, and it bears the insignia of the Rising Eagle (nicknamed the "Walking Buzzard" by WAACs). She wears Captain's rank insignia ( authorized by unit commanders to help in indicating their seniority within the WAAC, although they had no authority over Army personnel). Next, a group of WAAC members in uniform with steel helmets and bedrolls, walks along the pier. An English policeman (Bobby) is seen in the background. A Scottish piper entertains a WAAC member, by playing his bagpipes. Closeup of a WAAC Sergeant with other WAAC members on the pier. One WAAC member tries playing the bagpipes exerting great breaths in the process.

Location: United Kingdom
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675051439
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