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USAF Brig. Gen. Pfautz introduces a USAF documentary on Soviet military equipment and its use.
United States Air Force Soviet Awareness Program titled 'Heirs of Victory' depicts Soviet military equipment and its use in terms of purpose and jurisdiction. Introduction by Brigadier General James C. Pfautz, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. Brig. Gen. Pfautz gives details about the subject, translation, narration, and editing. The Soviet Communist hammer and sickle symbol. A Soviet long winged early warning radar keeps a watch in the sky. Soviet Air Force MiG-25 (Mikoyan-Gurevich) interceptor bombers with air to air missiles. Pilots board aircraft and they take off. The aircraft in flight. Soviet missiles and rockets protect the borders. World War II Soviet Air Force fighter pilot Nikolai Kozmoff talks to highly trained young Soviet pilots at a air base.
Army Signal Corps receive and send messages via various methods in World War II; Pentagon signal center operations.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat during World War 2. Submarine cables laid down by the Signal Corps. Soldiers operate field army communication equipment for communication within and between units. Soldiers talk over the radio in a military jeep. American soldiers employ communication equipment seated at a table in a camp. A U.S. Army Signal Officer goes through documents. An officer receives a message in Washington DC. The message is relayed from the State Department to the Signal Center in the Pentagon building. Exterior views of the Pentagon building circa 1943 or 1944. Inside the Army Communications Signal Center in the Pentagon, technicians work using various communication equipment. They receive messages punched on tape as the tapes emerge from machines. Workers encoding and decoding secret and confidential messages that run the war. Workers at the 'Traffic Control, Army Command and Administrative System'. Paper messages seen gliding across a track near the ceiling above a signboard. A man inserts and removes cables from switchboard slots. The plans are then passed on in code through a maze of antennas all over the world. An animated map depicts the sending of these messages by radio multi-channels, radio teletypes, and manual radios to the front lines. A vast network of Army communication system from Washington DC to the rest of the world to carry a message around the world in three and a half minutes.
V-mail procedures including cutting, microfilming, transport, photographic enlargement, and processing during WWII.
The use of V-mail (Victory Mail) by the United States during World War II. V-mail procedures including cutting, microfilming, transport, photographic enlargement, and processing of V-mail letters and post. A poster promoting the use of V-mail. Women in a line at a post office. The post office staff at counter windows serves the customers. A woman collects a V-mail letter, writes her message and then addresses the letter. The preferred use of a softer pencil in V-mails. Cutting: Specially trained soldiers unpack the V-mails and use a cutting machine to open each mail. Processing: The experienced staff sorts mails into the respective destination groups at sorting tables. Soldiers open mails to photograph them. A soldier sorts mail that can't be photographed and are to be sent back. These mails include stamps, enclosures, snapshots and bad writing. The correct mails are then sorted into given numbers in bundles. Microfilming: Women use Airgraph machines to photograph each mail on 16mm films. 1600 mails on 100 feet of film. The complete reels are sent for developing. Women put in new reels of negatives into the cameras. Developers dry the film reels. Stacks of reels on a table containing images of thousands of letters. Soldiers packing and stacking many hundreds of sacks filled with V-mail letter microfilm images. A Boeing 314 Pan American Clipper flying boat sea plane (military designation C-98) is seen taking off to transport V-mail to major destination points. A bag of microfilm reels is delivered to an officer. He unpacks the reels and sends them to the printing room. Enlargement: Enlargement machines are used to enlarge the snapshots. Men and women operate the printing machines. Soldiers with the printed facsimiles on tables. Processing: Women slice the prints into separate letters. Machines used to insert facsimiles into V-mail envelopes and seal them. The mails are then sent to the exact destinations by ordinary post. Soldiers gather around as a comrade distributes mail at a U.S. military base in the combat area.
Dramatization depicts production, black marketing of gas coupons and citizens' responsibilities in supporting World War 2 gas rationing.
'No Alternative' dramatizes citizens' responsibilities in supporting gas rationing in the United States. Dramatization: Group of men seated playing card game. Tom interrupts a poker game to lecture on rationing, after Bob offers an illegal gas coupon to Frank. He talks about the production of automotive gasoline, increasing price and limited production of crude oil. Uses of crude oil: U.S. airmen and soldiers use crude oil to fuel aircraft and tanks. A U.S. aircraft drops bombs made with the use of crude oil. Workers produce synthetic rubber from crude oil at a plant. U.S. Navy ships, merchant fleets, railroads and war industries use crude oil. Tom explains how "black market" coupons cause shortages that affect war industries and military activities. Dramatization depicts safe breakers breaking into a ration board and stealing gas coupons worth 11 million gallons. Gasoline used by farmers in tractors, to take produce to the markets, finished ammunition, guns and tanks to the railroad stations so that they can be sent to the front. Tom points out ways to make rationing work and save gasoline including: formation of car pools, scorning illegal coupons, identifying coupons with the user's license number.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson seated during an interview
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the United States during World War I. President Wilson seated in his office, talking. An map is shown with smoke rising from parts of the land masses. An overlay of a U.S. flag then is superimposed over the map. A U.S. military flag symbol with an eagle atop.
Technicians work to detect hurricanes at the Joint Hurricane Warning Center in Miami, Florida.
A film titled 'Hurricane Hunters' about the role of Airborne Early Warning Squadron Four in the United States. Propellers of an aircraft rotate and it takes off. A Hurricane Hunter aircraft in flight. Crew members aboard an airborne aircraft as they work to warn against a possible hurricane. A ship underway in the rough sea during a hurricane. A man runs on street as strong wind blows and rainfall occurs. Strong breeze blows and rainfall occurs during a hurricane. Submerged houses, damaged train, damaged vehicles and houses. Men clear debris. Exteriors of a Joint Hurricane Warning center in Miami. Technicians work on weather maps.
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