'Winged Warfare on the Boll Weevil', presents solution to the problem of Boll Weevils in United States. Isom visits Jim. Interior of a house. Jim serves food on the table and calls Isom to eat the food. He looks at the watch on wall to see the time. Isom looks at a painting framed on the wall. Jim and Isom sit on the chairs to eat the food. An airplane takes off outside the house. The crop duster in flight. It sprays poison over a field. Isom looks outside the window and watches the plane. He asks Jim about what was happening outside. Jim calls it a flying machine.
Airplane dusts poison in the field to eliminate the Boll Weevils and other insect pests from the cotton crop, United States. A dog outside a house. Isom and Jim step out of the house and sit on the stairs. They discuss about the method of dusting poison through airplane. A jeep moves amidst a field. The jeep stops and man comes out to watch an airplane flying over the field. Another man comes out of the jeep and asks the man about the airplane. The man replies that the airplane is dusting poison over his field.
Men sign a contract for crop dusting airplanes in United States. Men seated in chairs outside a house. Trees in the background. They sign the contract and discuss. A dog sits near them. Crop dusting airplanes parked on ground. Two airplanes needed for spreading crop dusting poison or insecticde. Pilots of the airplanes. Men stand near the aircraft. A mechanic and an entomologist also needed. Men inspect the field and repair the plane.
Colonel William Wilson Quinn introduces an episode of "The Big Picture" that tells about the history of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States, called the "Big Red One." We see the boots and the shoes that 1st Infantry soldiers wore beginning with the Revolutionary War, through the Civil War, the First World War and the Second World War. Recruits are shown in training during World War 2 before deploying overseas in Operation Torch and the invasion of North Africa. Commanding General of the 1st Infantry Division, General Terry Allen, is seen during the Division's deployment to North Africa in World War II. Soldiers relaxing aboard troop ship. Naval barrage at night followed by amphibious assault on coast of Algeria. Animation shows the target areas of the division as they capture Oran. German counter attack is seen with bombers, tanks (including brief view of a German Tiger I tank), and artillery. American soldier standing with rifles shooting at low-flying German aircraft that are bombing their position. Scenes of German and American gun crews firing. Nazi German General Rommel seen in his staff car. Animation shows route of the Division with others towards the North. Heavy nighttime gunfire is seen. American soldiers meet and greet British troops of General Montgomery's 8th Army.
Graph compares the number of female factory workers to men during World War II. Factory workers producing war materiel in the United States. Workers using lathe. Welders welding machines. Tanks are loaded onto rail freight cars. Railroad freight yards and shipping. Posters advertising war jobs for women. Women interviewed for war jobs by men. Alarm clock rings as tired woman wakes up in bed. Women in front of Sterner's Department Store and buying fur coats. Women reading newspapers while smoking. Crowd trying to get onto an overcrowded bus. A mother comforts her boy who has skinned his knee. Men and women leaving a factory. Interior of World War 2 airplane factory. Soldier examines broken radio on battlefield. Wounded American soldiers carried on litters. A telegraph is delivered to a woman by a girl. Woman reads the telegraph. Woman crying in bed while reading the telegraph that announces her husband's death, while her son comforts her. Close up photo of deceased husband. Montage of graveyards with gold star of service superimposed on image. Newspaper headline "All Job Deferments Face Drastic Review" View of men inside Selective Service local board 226 office. Some men being drafted then in 1944 are shown, including older men, more fathers, and men who had been doing essential industrial work. Man working with metal lathe. American soldiers climbing mountain in snow in Italian mountains. American soldiers wade through deep water in a jungle region of the Pacific. View of a sinking ship or merchant ship, and two crew members jumping off the sinking ship into the water. View of London England blitz damage and devastation, and people digging through piles of rubble from bombing. Dead bodies of adults and children from war in Europe. Crying women, London Blitz. Woman holding boy in arms. Woman kissing girl. Old woman sewing in factory to help with the war production effort. Women picking crops to help with farming and supply of food for soldiers.
American women produce war materiel in factories across the United States during World War II. Women march in uniforms. They participate in the military operations. They work in ammunition factories as war production workers. They operate machines in factories making aircraft. Women weld equipment, work on the wings of fighter and bomber planes and repair the airplane parts. They work on various machines and motors of aircraft. They sew parachutes for the soldiers and inspect parts of machines.
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