A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States during World War II. WAACs parade at the end of their training period. Officers review them. Recruits stand at attention and are ready to serve the army. An officer seated at his desk in an office. A woman stands nearby. A woman driving a jeep. Another woman repairs a jeep. The WAACs prepare food for soldiers. Animated map locates work areas of the women. A train passing on a railway track. Newly assigned WAACs arrive at their quarters. Ships in a harbor. The first WAAC detachment in North Africa. Clerical, technical and other types of work done by the WAACs. They work with soldiers. They draw military maps and charts. Group of African American women soldiers relieve African American male soldiers working as switchboard operators. Women are shown serving as dispatchers, as typists, developing film in photographic laboratories, serving as pigeoneers who handle carrier pigeons used in war communications, serving as radio operators, issuing clothing in quartermaster houses, working in post offices, fingerprinting, and collecting rations at a commissary. Female African American soldiers and and female white soldiers work at a motor pool. The WAACs marching.
A documentary on the growth of television industry in the United States. Children watching television in a family living room. Telecast of several children shows on the television. Children watching a puppet show. Views of boys smiling and laughing as they enjoy a television show. Narrator extols the virtues of television for entertaining and educating children. Narrator notes that televisions are being used in classrooms in schools and that its uses for teachers are "limitless."
U.S. Air Force officers return to the United States in World War II. The officers with their families in Washington DC. Buildings in the background. One of the officers returns to his home in Piqua, Ohio. A sign board reads: 'Welcome to Piqua'. Buildings along the sides of the street. The officer with his family in his home. People gather at his home to greet him. He hugs his sister.
A film titled: 'Lady Marines' on the recruitment of women in the United States Marine Corps, during World War 2. Views of Marines engaged in combat. U.S. Naval guns firing. A Marine dive bomber in action. Splashes in water from explosions. Marines in an amphibious assault on the beach. Paramarines making a jump. Tanks moving on the field. U.S. Marines firing machine guns. Paramarines boarding an airplane. Views of U.S. Marines in non-combat assignments in Washington, DC. Exterior of the U.S. Capitol building. Trucks being refueled. Marine mechanics maintaining vehicles. Marines engaged in administrative and logistical wartime support activities. A Marine typing a document on a typewriter. Comments about the need to free trained Marines for combat. A scene of Japanese soldiers celebrating a victory. A poster with the photograph of a woman reads: 'Be a Marine'. On February 13, 1943 the Marine Corps Womens Reserve is formed. Women are recruited to relieve Marines for combat. Women Marines salute.
A film on the recruitment of women in the United States Marine Corps during World War 2. Exterior of a church. Members of the Womens reserve of the Marine Corps and officers enter the church. They sit inside and pray and participate in a serve. Clergy of different faiths are shown preaching to a congregation that includes women Marines.
A film on the Coast Guardsmen and United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS). A Coast Guard soldier and a Coast Guard woman walking at the sea shore. Statue of Liberty in the background. SPARS march in formation. Buildings in the background. A seaplane parked on the ground. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. The plane taxiing. A woman watching the plane. (World War II period).
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