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Four British labor exchange visitors return home after several weeks visiting war plants and labor organizations in America (WW2)

A British guest on labor exchange program visit spends his last day as a house guest of his counterpart American's family, in Los Angeles, California. He is seen with the father in their living room with two children, while the mother prepares dinner in the kitchen. The children are sent to bed and the men and the wife, named Ellen sits down to dinner with the two men. The British guest waves goodbye to the family at their doorstep. Scene shifts to another of the British labor exchange visitors leaving the family where he had been hosted in a different city. Next, the four British labor exchange visitors are seen seated opposite representatives of American labor organizations including the American federation of Labor (AFL), the Congress of industrial Organizations (CIO) and the Railroad Brotherhood. They had met them a few weeks ago when they first arrived in the U.S. One of the labor representatives asks them about their impressions of America. They uniformly praise the effectiveness of the U.S war effort, extolling the efficiency and productivity of her war plants. One of the commenters calls for more international unity in the labor union movement. A spokesman for the American labor representatives expresses need to support the United Nations movement. Film closes showing the four British exchange visitors boarding a U.S. Army Air Corps C-54 transport plane to fly them home to England. They are checked in by an airman who wears a leather jacket with the Air Transport Command logo on it. The aircraft is seen taking off and climbing out over hangars at the airfield. (World War II period)

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 5 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029528
Interior of new Army Post Office in New York City, and distribution of packages to American soldiers at Christmas (WW2)

Exteriors of a new Army Post Office in New York City. Mail bags are unloaded from a train. Thousands of Postal mail bags filled with packages, parcels, and letters are seen stacked inside the post office. Mails being sorted inside the post office. Packages and letters on a moving conveyor belt. Bags being moved by multi-car trolleys. Troops' mails being unloaded from a truck at the war front. Packages and letters being handed out to U.S. soldiers in World War II. Soldiers standing by a Christmas tree and receiving mail. A soldiers patrols on guard duty in front of a Christmas tree.

Location: New York United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029661
U.S. naval fleet during the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

General MacArthur maps the drive on Leyte with field commanders. Guarding the operation in the Philippines is a vast naval force. Battle map shows location of U.S. 7th fleet (Kinkaid) and U.S. 3rd fleet (Halsey). The air and sea Battle of Leyte Gulf. Aircraft carrier operation, planes land and take-off. Japanese plane shot down; hit by anti-aircraft fire Japanese plane cartwheels through the sky and crashes into the ocean. The USS Princeton is loss in battle. Aerial view of damage and later view of Princeton magazine exploding. Damaged plane landing on carrier deck on one landing gear. Admiral Nimitz reports on battle. (World War II period).

Location: Leyte Gulf Philippines
Date: 1944
Duration: 4 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029662
U.S. Army soldiers guard group of German POWs; dead German soldiers near Westenfeld Germany

German POWs march in a group, guarded by U.S. Army soldiers of the 7th Armored Division, near Westenfeld, Germany. Bodies of two dead German soldiers lay beside a road. with an Army truck parked a few yards behind them. A U.S. soldier inspects the dead German soldiers. Faces of the dead German soldiers. (World War II period).

Location: Westenfeld Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029779
U.S. Army 7th armored division in action near Westenfeld Germany, and German civilians fire fighting

Troops of the U.S. Army 7th Armored Division pass by Westenfeld Germany. Townspeople at road side work to put out a fire using a manual pump on wheels. View of a German civilian holding the firehose and spraying water at a burning building. U.S. troops pass through on various military vehicles. U.S. troops march along a road. View of a large fire burning in the foothills above the road. Troops atop tanks and other vehicles pass. U.S. troops take cover in ditches along roadside. Smoke arises from the wreckage of a house in Westenfeld. An injured, burned pig hobbles out of a burning building. Civilians including men, women, children race to a water pump and work to extinguish the fire. (World War II period).

Location: Westenfeld Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 3 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029780
U.S. Army 90th infantry convoy passes through Probstzella Germany

U.S. Army 90th infantry convoy of tanks and trucks passes through the town of Probstzella in Germany. Low mountains and country side in the background. Soldiers atop an artillery tractor and trucks. Trucks loaded with equipment and ammunition. White flags of surrender draped from a number of the buildings and homes. A civilian walks by with a heavy load on her back. (World War II period).

Location: Probstzella Germany
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029782
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