Film opens showing Al Trace with his orchestra, singing a song entitled, "Let's All Back the Attack." As he sings in the background, scenes of American military operations in the Pacific theater are shown. U.S. troops jump from Landing craft during an amphibious assault in the Pacific during World War II. Troops leave the USS LCI(L)-343 (Landing Craft Infantry, Large) via side ramps during an amphibious landing. U.S. Marines carrying a wounded Marine on a stretcher during Battle of Tarawa. American Marines hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT). They attend to wounded on the sand and carry some out toward landing craft for evacuation. View from flight deck of a U.S. aircraft under attack by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft. Black flak clouds near a low-flying Japanese plane. Sailor ducking as he runs across the flight deck. Deck crews scrambling on the flight deck as a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" passes dangerously close and its wing falls off. Glimpse of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter on the carrier flight deck. Glimpse of the ship's antiaircraft guns. The Zero crashes in the water with a huge explosion. Scene shifts back to Al Trace and orchestra continuing their song. Closing scene exhorts audience to buy an extra war bond today.
Navy Screen Highlights shows the United States naval troops in action. Troops march. Naval officer gives speech. USS Thresher submarine goes underwater. Site where USS Thresher took her last dive before it sunk. An experimental submarine goes under water to aid in deep water search. Memorial service for crew members of the USS Thresher who died serving for United States, at Connecticut, United States.
Propaganda film made for the U.S. Defense Department during Cold War, entitled “Freedom and You.” Opening scene shows a typical town in the United States, except that soldiers are patrolling and sandbags and barbed wire fencing are seen in places. Narrator, Jack Webb, approaches the camera with comment: “Frightening isn’t it.” Overview of the town. Views through barbed wire of an armed soldier and local people. Ordinary automobile traffic on the street. (Narrator suggests that this town could created somewhere in the Soviet Union to teach young Communists about the United States.) View inside an ice cream parlor with soda jerk serving customers. Numerous views typical of what one would find in an American town: Inside a bank; White Church steeple seen through trees; men conversing in ice cream parlor; inside of a supermarket; (Communist civilian chatting with soldier near barbed wire fence); a baseball game; A tray of hot dogs; school building with students outside; (Teacher inside discussing explosives and listening devices.) Teacher and students in chemistry lab; Slate identifies film title: “Freedom and You.” Boy playing with his dog is chastised by his mother; Young couple conversing over car with open hood; Man going to work kisses his daughter; Men at work in a machine shop; An airmen, marines, and a woman at a table on an air base; KC-97 aerial refueling aircraft in background; Young couple sitting in hotrod car watching as a man races a Chevy Corvette car on the runway. Group at the table give woman timing report; A single engine Beechcraft airplane on the runway; Young couple kiss in front of a M101 105mm howitzer sitting in a building; They speak with an Army officer about postponing his active duty. More views of machine shop; Family at dinner saying goodnight to small children; Father talking with small boy wearing Cub Scout cap; Film is interrupted with a dream sequence showing Communist Martial law imposed on the town. Effects are shown in small vignettes of ordinary life. The machine shop now displays a sign with the day’s production quota. Children being packed to go away to a State School. Father rebels and is seized by military guards. The church is closed for worship, and now houses a Soviet museum. Father stands trial before a military court for rebelling against the Communist State. Family testifies against him. He is sentenced to be shot. He gives impassioned speech about freedom. He is hauled into a room and is shot by a soldier with a pistol. Film ends as he wakes from his nightmare and finds everything back to normal.
U.S. Army training film about victims of rape in the United States. A rape victim seeks help to gain physical and emotional healing in the United States. Emmie, a victim of rape, exits a bus and runs and gets into a telephone booth, almost struck by a car on the way to the phone booth. She calls a support line. The woman offers support over the phone, though Emmie is nervous and crying. Emmie goes to meet the lady and rings the door bell. The lady greets Emmie and introduces herself as 'Monica'. Monica and Emmie go into room where some women are seated. Monica introduces all of them to Emmie. Introduction of women seated in the room and reasons that brought them there. An old woman speaks.
U.S. Army training film about victims of rape in the United States. Victim works with police and CID special agents in the United States. Emmie, a victim of rape, talks to a lady named 'Monica', who helps women (Victims). Other women seated in a room. Jennie, one of them describes every thing about her and what she went through. Past events show Jennie as a soldier. She marches at a parade with other military personnel. Views of Jennie after her rape. She walks on a street in night. Police car arrives there and police men get her into the car and rape her. Nurse talks on phone about Dr. Marshall in hospital. Dr. Marshall talks to Jennie and asks her about undergoing physical examination. Nurse, Jennie and Dr. Marshall in a room at the hospital. Dr. Marshall tells Jennie to take samples for examinations. She signs on papers for undergoing an examination. Hospital staff members testify the samples in a laboratory. Jennie meets CID special agents and gives them information about the rapist. Jennie comes outside from church with officer and talks with him to apprehend and punish the rapist'. Emmie at a beach. A man flies kite at beach. Emmie keeps looking at the strange man. She walks on the beach.
Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in United States. He arrives on the 'Queen Mary' ship in New York harbor. Officials and other dignitaries greet him at the Army base in Brooklyn. Then he boards the President's airplane "Independence" at Floyd Bennett field to go to Washington DC. U.S. President Truman greets him at Bolling Field. U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument both visible in background. Churchill addresses the people at the airfield and talks about the harmony and close bonds between the two countries. Truman comments briefly also with words of agreement.
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