The X-10 Plant of Monsanto Chemical Company in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Vehicles drive towards the plant. A parking area of the plant. A car comes at the entrance gate of the plant. A guard at the gate. People leave from the exit gate of the plant. A sign of Monsanto Chemical Company. A guard enters. Clinton Laboratories of the plant. A sign reads 'Prohibited Area'. Smoke stacks in the background. Important information on a board.
An accounting department at an administration building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. A man gives papers to a girl. She goes away. People work at a desk. Mr. Frank B. Elackston, the Chief Accountant, dictates to his secretary at his desk. Engineers work in a drafting room in the Engineering Section. Two men work at a drafting desk. A soldier hand prints a name on a blueprint at a desk.
A telephone room in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Girls operate a switchboard. Two information girls work in the foreground. Other two girls work at files. A girl works at a file. Girls operate the switchboard and put plugs in a board.
Colonel Kirkpatrick, the Commanding Officer in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Colonel Kirkpatrick works at a desk in his office. U.S. and Oak Ridge flags in the background. A meeting of Clinton Engineer Works. Facilities and Service staff in the meeting. A man takes notes. A map on a wall in the background. The Colonel addresses the meeting. F. F. Kromer is included in the meeting. Draws a diagram titled 'Alamogordo' that shows a tower (likely atomic bomb test tower), a photo location, headquarters location at 17,000 yards from the tower, and Control area at 10,000 yards from the tower.
Twenty millionth car manufactured by Ford in Tennessee. The band and a crowd around a monument in Lebanon, Tennessee. Police escort the twenty millionth Ford, a black Town Sedan, during a parade. An elderly man in uniform and others in front of the twenty millionth Ford. A group pose in front of the twenty millionth Ford at Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Men in front of the car, one of them signs the logbook at Franklin, Tennessee. Spectators watch the motorcade and band pass by at Columbia, Tennessee. A sign over an old car at the roadside reads 'Welcome 20,000,000 Ford my number is 602765, I was born in 1913'. The band play in front of the Ford car. The drum major twirls the baton.
United States and Chinese airmen at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas July 1946. The Neo-Classical building is the Texas State Capital at Austin, Texas and Austin Texas is noted on the graduate’s diploma “Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas”. At this time the 349th Troop Carrier Group was based at Bergstrom and assigned to the Third Air Force, Tactical Air Command as noted on the diploma. Also “Air Force Combat Units of World War II” Edited by Maurer Maurer states this unit trained Chinese crews to operate C-46 aircraft. Film is very interesting in that it visually shows the transition from “Army brown to Air Force Blue” for the C-46s still carry the I TROOP CARRIER COMMAND insigne on the nose, with was disbanded on 4 Nov 1945 but they have the new AAF wide "Buzz Numbers" for all aircraft operating solely within the continental USA, by T.O. 07-1-1 of November 1945 and the graduate’s diploma is notating the new post-war air force type command reorganization of March 1946.
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