A film titled: 'Ring of Steel' on the history of U.S. soldiers. Soldiers holding rifles marching on the ground in the United States. A statue. Sites, landmarks and painting from the battles since 1775. The Concord bridge. Men walking across the bridge. A painting of soldiers during a historic war. Mountains in the background. The contribution of the soldiers in the Battle of Valley Forge. A war memorial for the soldiers. Yorktown, Bunker Hill, Ticonderoga and Lake Champlain.
A film on the recruitment of women in the United States Army, Navy and Marines. Female personnel in the Marines are placed for the jobs after their training. Women Marines working in a completely women-run post office at Camp Lejeune. Some of the women serving as telephone operators. Others working as typists. Women and men military personnel at a bar enjoying drinks. A woman operating a mimeograph copy machine. Women seated at desks and typing documents. A woman sketching a map. Vehicles parked on the ground. Women's Reserve mechanics working on the maintenance of Marines aircraft. Pilot seated in the cockpit of an aircraft. A woman boards the airplane in the back seat, and is handed an aerial reconnaissance photography camera. The plane in flight. The woman takes photographs of the area. Lady Marines march in formation on a parade ground. Trees in the background. The marching women of the Marine Corps Womens Reserve pass by a column of marching men Marines.
A film version of the legendry 1940s stage show in the United States. American singer and dancer Jerry Jones arrange the show. Jones along with his other men standing inside a building and reading a paper about a show. They perform stage shows in several places. They perform the shows in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC. The Capitol building. The artists inside a building in Washington DC where they are to perform the show. A woman arrives in the building and talks to Jerry Jones. Jones talks to her about a soldier who was killed in the Pearl Harbor. He addresses the artists and talks about the show to be performed. People arrive at the theater to watch the show. Several dignitaries and officials also arrive. People applauding. (World War II period).
A film titled: 'Substitution and Conversion' on provision of supplies to soldiers in the European Theater during World War II. A slowly revolving relief globe. The Philippines on a map. Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra are also located. Narrator notes that a large quantity of raw materials was lost at these places during the war. Exterior of the Pentagon building in Arlington Virginia, outside Washington DC. Clerks working at their desks inside the building. A coat and hat rack filled with items belonging to civilian and military workers in the Pentagon. A convoy of ships underway at sea. Elevated view of columns of many U.S. Army soldiers standing at attention during a review. Closeup views of an American Army soldier showing his uniform and his equipment including helmet, rifle, gasmask, leggings, bayonet, ammunition belt, first aid kit, canteen, blanket roll, haversack. Soldiers stand in formation. Cots with netting on them in a barracks area. Corps of engineers soldiers building a wooden bridge over a waterway. Bomber aircraft and fighter aircraft in lines at an airfield. Columns of tanks parked in a field. Heavy artillery being towed on a roadway. Half track armored vehicles rolling by. View of tanks rolling by, and an anti-aircraft gun being cranked into position. Soldiers loading artillery shells from a storage area into a truck. View of storage tanks for gasoline. Convoy of supply trucks moving on a road. Closup view of train locomotive and its cars moving at and past camera position. Aircraft overhead in formation. View of ships at sea in convoy below. Animated map shows that 7 tons of equipment is required for each American soldier. Giant railroad gun firing. A Navy ship releasing a depth charge and explosion in water. Bombs away view of bombs falling from open bomb doors of a bomber aircraft. American soldiers racing onto a beach head. Animated map shows supply of war equipment to other places all over the world, from the United States.
A film on problems of military supply. Animation shows a shell being fired at a target board. Production of shells and guns in a factory in the United States. They are loaded in a train and the train moving on a railway track. Then they are carried by ships. They are loaded in an airplane and the airplane in flight overhead. They are then carried by trucks and finally by mules to a battlefield. The soldiers then are able to use the ammunition. (World War II period).
A United States Air Force Weather Service meteorologist points at a large synoptic chart and briefs about the weather, while being recorded and broadcast via television. USAF operators in a control tower as an airplane lands on a runway. To provide information to the pilots observation stations of the Air Weather Service are located at the end of the runways. A man enters an observation station. He works on equipment. Voice messages using pre recorded words translate machine weather data into understandable information for pilots.
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