A documentary depicts activities of U.S. Department of War workers in the United States during World War 2. Scenes of various 1940's clocks on bedside tables. War department workers wake up with the alarms. They get ready for work. Cars passing on the streets of Washington DC. Buildings along the sides of the street. People lined up waiting for public conveyance. A bus arrives. Bus and car traffic on the "Highway Bridge" over the Potomac River toward Arlington Virginia. (The Highway Bridge, a swing-span through-truss bridge, was part of the 14th Street Bridge complex over the years. It was eventually replaced by the George Mason Memorial Bridge, and in 1967 the Highway Bridge was removed and taken to the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren Virginia, to be used for bombing practice). View of the newly built Pentagon War Department building in Arlington Virginia, and views of large parking lots at the Pentagon filled with cars. Workers walking inside the Pentagon building corridors. A line of women seated and working at telephone switchboards in the Pentagon, and consulting an updated telephone directory. A sign at the door of a room reads 'Security Office, Identification Section'. A woman goes inside. Woman named 'Phyllis Hood' gets her identification card and finger prints for her identification in the office. She is seen taking an oath. Hood working at her desk. She files statistical reports. Exteriors of various Washington DC buildings being guarded by United States Army personnel for the Military District of Washington during World War II. A covered anti-aircraft gun installation in Washington DC is shown opening as US Army soldiers take up positions to use the artillery during practice drills. A guard standing outside the White House building.
A documentary about the 1974 Super Outbreak of tornadoes in the United States, and specifically on occurrence of a tornado in the Cincinnati, Ohio area of the United States. Men working at a control area and on switch boards at the Cincinnati airport. Weather experts and other men working in an office and trying to locate the center of the tornado. They discuss among themselves. Buildings in an area of Cincinnati. Men and women talking about the tornado. A man at a local emergency broadcast station warns people about the tornado. Views of the tornado as it is seen near the Cincinnati airport. A man locating the area of the tornado on a map. Men carrying wounded people on stretchers. People walking in a street following a tornado strike in the area.
Weather airplanes in Bermuda. Kindley Air Force Base. United States Air Force officers looking at a weather map. Pilots briefing crew. United States Air Force WB-50D Superfortress aircraft taking off. A pilot and a co-pilot at the controls of the aircraft. They locate the eye of a hurricane. Flight crew works at weather recording and communication equipment inside the aircraft. A USAF officer recording wind velocity readings on a weather map. The WB-50D in flight.
The Bonus Expeditionary Force (BEF) (or Bonus Army) at Fort Hunt in Virginia, United States. The First Lady of the United States Anna Eleanor Roosevelt arrives to meet them. The Bonus Army cheers. Tents in the background. Roosevelt sits in a car and then leave the camp.
United States Army soldiers fighting Japanese forces in Mindanao, Philippines during World War II. An M4 Sherman tank moving on a field. It takes up position near men in foxholes. The tank opens fire on a Japanese-held hillside. Smoke rises from the firing. A dead United States soldier lying on a litter.
United States Army General John J Pershing addresses the nation from Washington DC, United States during World War II. General Pershing seated at a desk in his office. He urges the nation to help the Allies. He says that the Allies are fighting a war for civilization. He urges the country to send unlimited supply of airplanes, arms and ammunition to the Allies.
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