The role of women in in the United States Army. A nurse helps an injured soldier in a hospital. A physiotherapist moves the leg of a soldier. A women dietitian works in the laboratory. View of Congress, on June 1948, during passage of the Women's Armed Services Act. Colonel Mary A. Hallaren being appointed as the first WAC officer in the regular Army of the United States. General George Marshall witnesses the appointment and swears in Sergeant Bates, as the first enlisted woman in the regular Army, as Colonel Hallaren witnesses. Women recruits arrive at WAC processing center by train. They get into a bus. Women enter the WAC training center. They are issued uniforms. Women being taught military matters in open air classrooms. WAC in close order drill, and donning gas masks.
Activities of the people in a rural mining area in the United States during the depression. View of a railroad yard filled with coal cars. Men unloading trucks with sacks. People on the porch outside a house, in what appears to be a coal mining town. A child stands on the stairs. African American children on the roof of a house. Location is likely Appalachian or southern United States.
Activities of the people in rural area in the United States during the Great Depression. Segment of woven fence made of wood. A man makes a table. Man stands in front of the house. Aerial view of the houses. Unemployed men loiter. Men,women and children barter at window of a cooperative store. Woman inside the corporate house writes on a paper. Men seated on ground. Includes mix of white men and women, and African American men and women. Setting appears to be a mining town in the United States South or Appalachian areas.
Precautions taken to prevent diseases in the United States. Milkmen open the lids of milk cans. They work on milk pasteurizing machines. Bacteria free milk is packed in bottles. The milkmen work on the machine. Milkmen open the lids of milk cans and work on milk pasteurizing machines in the United States.
Several scenes of large map of United States of America. Nebraska is outlined and Omaha (Headquarters location of the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) is highlighted. An arrow points a bold dot representing city of Omaha in Nebraska,United States.
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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