Chemical Warfare Service training of U.S. Army trains in the United States during World War I. American Army soldiers wearing gas masks attempt to identify chemical agents as they are discharged on a field. The Division is deployed in trucks and on foot. Soldiers move forward in a line around a hil and along a muddy road. Soldiers lying in foxholes as cloud of gas approaches. One soldier swings a gas alarm ringer round and round to alert everyone. Other soldiers immediately don their gas masks. Later wind conditions allow them to rest. But the enemy fires gas shells into their midst anyway. So they must don gas masks again. A patrol goes out and encounters mustard gas. They check wind to avoid contact with it and move upwind.
Notable African American persons in the United States. Sociology researcher Charles S. Johnson at his desk and Warren Logan, William Edward Burghardt also known as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S Johnson and Ira Reid pose for the camera. Close-ups of each personality. Chemist teacher Dr. Thomas W Turner works in a laboratory in Hampton.
The United States on alert in the beginning of World War II. A National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting. The NAM President talks addresses the group. He talks about the national defense requirements and ways to meet the mass production. The Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine plant in Hartford, Connecticut. Workers in line arrive for work. Men work to manufacture engines for American bomber and fighter aircraft. Manufactured engine parts stacked in stands. U.S. Navy Curtiss-Wright CW-22Bs in flight. A naval task force underway at sea below. The ships advance amidst explosions.
The United States in preparation for World War II. Men stand in line for physical examination. Navy doctor checks lungs of each man with stethoscope. Young American men enlisting and new recruits being sworn in as Naval Reserves at the Naval Reserve Station in New York. Men working in war production factories to manufacture aircraft, ships, guns, and armament as part of the war production effort building war materiel. Large gun and artillery barrels are shown in production factories. Coastal guns fired. U.S. military tanks, jeeps and trucks advance. Aircraft in flight. Tanks advance in training drills over land obstacles, including ramps that cause a tank to become briefly airborn. Lines of tanks in practice drill maneuvers at night. Machine gun emplacements firing tracers at night and hitting practice targets.
The United States on guard at the beginning of World War II. The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington DC. U.S. troops and Boy Scouts marching in review. New York City: Children in a park, rivers, farm, fields, baseball and football games in NY stadiums, services in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Statue of Liberty and the U.S. flag. The voice of Kate Smith singing 'God Bless America'.
A U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) training film on instructions to fly USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in the United States. An officer turns on a radio switch. Trainees wear head phones. Men check fuel pressure gauge. Governor control is operated to get desired revolutions per minute ( RPM). The RPM gauge shows readings. A system engineer communicates with men in aircraft. A gauge shows flap position. The flaps are turned down. A dial shows zero flap position. A compass chord, a hydrolic pressure gauge and a suction gauge show readings. A trainee turns a vacuum pump switch. He checks for oxygen cylinder pressure. An officer checks filter warning lights. A trainee turns on an output switch. A pilot communicates with a man in a control tower. A crew man gives hand signals to a man on the ground. The man removes wheel chokes. Switches and handles are operated as the aircraft taxis. The pilot locks the tail wheel. The aircraft taxis past other parked aircraft. Th pilot turns on the automatic control switch. The tail wheel is unlocked.
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