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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.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021760
The need for cadet nurses and young girls to volunteer for military nursing service during World War II.

A film titled 'Reward Unlimited' starring Dorothy McGuire dramatizes the need for cadet nurses during World War II. Dramatization depicts why a girl called Peggy decides to become a nurse, and how she is trained. Peggy discusses marriage and future plans with her Lieutenant boyfriend. She decides to get a war job. She meets a woman who was a nurse and who gives her information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Congress scholarships for nursing schools and duration of the courses. Peggy discusses her decision to join a nursing school with her parent. After she convinces her parents that nurses are needed, she enters training. She undergoes theoretical and practical training with many other girls in a hospital. Nursing students in classroom setting with teacher or professor at blackboard providing class instruction. Nurses receiving practical clinical instruction. Nurses using microscopes and taking notes, nurses attending patients in a hospital ward. Nurse cadet taking care of an infant baby. Nurse in surgery theater handing instruments to a doctor during operation on a patient. The graduation ceremony from the Army Nursing School. Peggy checks on a little boy called Jimmy. A government message urging young girls to volunteer for military nursing service with information about the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.

Date: 1944
Duration: 10 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021853
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and associates following conviction of espionage.

David Greenglass attempts to hide his face from camera while a U.S. Marshal escorts him into a United States Marshal van. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg emerge from courthouse doorway and are escorted into a Marshal's van. Morton Sobell is held and photographers take pictures of him.

Date: 1951, March 29
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022171
Teams under Sergeant Collins advance and take position.

Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Sergeant Collins' team advances. United States soldiers take position and return fire to enemy attack. Sergeant Collins signals the Alpha team to fire and the Bravo team to maneuver. Alpha team fires to take cover while the Bravo team advances in a crawling position. The rifleman advances firing the automatic rifle. Soldiers check dead bodies of enemy to search for any important papers. The teams fall into final coordination line formation as they advance.

Date: 1965
Duration: 6 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022234
Sergeant Collins advances with his team using the fire and movement method.

Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Sergeant Collins advances with his team using the fire and movement method. United States soldiers take positions and fire at enemy. Team advances ahead, firing at enemy. Soldier checks an enemy's body to search for any important papers. Squad leader checks positions of the team members as they advance further.

Date: 1965
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022235
Platoon leader and the team under Sergeant Collins advances.

Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Platoon leader and the team under Sergeant Collins advances. Explosives and smoke shells fired. Squad leader deploys his team into a final coordination line formation. United States soldiers take cover and fire at the enemy. One of the soldiers breaks into enemy's protected wire. Soldiers take their positions and rapid fire on enemy. Sergeant Collins gets hit by a bullet and gives charge to Seargent Bourden. He advances the team by moving one soldier at a time towards the enemy.

Date: 1965
Duration: 4 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675022236