The boy scouts of America parade on streets. Boy scouts camp in forest. They put out camp fires and practice other forest fire prevention methods.
Young American woman walks past buildings of an American college. She is seen entering and working at a war production plant during World War 2. She works riveting a section of a warplane. View inside a factory at Willow Run, Michigan, where a line of incomplete B-17 bomber aircraft is seen. Another room contains B-24 Liberator bombers under construction. A woman in the plant holds up a set of electric lines welded together. A woman operates an overhead crane moving a crate of parts in the factory. View of her from below as her housing and the crane are operating. Another woman adjusts her protective helmet and then operates a machine-driven jig saw. Two women war workers set plexiglass sheets on a bombardier's canopy. Two other women operate a machine producing aircraft turret windshields. Women working on aircraft fuselages. View of workers getting meals at the war plant cafeteria and sitting at tables to eat. A woman returns a book to the war plant library. More views of women in various manufacturing jobs, like installing wiring in aircraft fuselages. Women employing assembly jigs. More views of B-24s partially completed. Women moving fully built up aircraft engine by overhead crane and installing such in aircraft air frames. Sections of aircraft being lowered by crane and guided by women. A tail section of a B-24 being assembled. View of completed B-24 Liberator bombers ready for final painting. Next B-24s are seen lined up on the factory ramp. Another glimpse of the B-24 production line. Series of views showing B-24 bombers in flight.
General Mark Wayne Clark greets and pins an award on a woman from the Women's Army Corps or "WAC" during World War II. Ground Infantry quiz question on Greek goddess Pallas Athene, seen on the WAC insignia. Views of WAC women in various jobs and roles during the war, including marching, mail sorting, and radio broadcasting.
Woman in a bathroom. Woman draws water to take a bath. In a separate scene a different woman is seen adjusting controls of a shower and taking a shower. GI quiz question on what consumes water more, a bath or a shower. Narrator says it is the bath.
1902 Still photo of glider made by Wright brothers in which they used wing warping technique for balance in flight. 1903 Still photograph of Orville Wright's first flight and plane on the ground. 1908 Newspaper headline and front page story of Wilber Wright's flights in France along with pictures. Wilbur Wright works on a transporting wheel of his plane in France. Horse tows plane across a field in France.
U.S. destroyers of Squadron 14, depart Norfolk, Virginia for the Mediterranean, in October, 1922. Map showing the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries, from the Straits of Gibralter, and East to Black Sea and Red Sea. Various sea navigation routes are depicted through the water areas. U.S. Navy Clemson class destroyer, taking on supplies in Norfolk, Virginia. Sailors carrying sacks of supplies over their shoulders from a dock onto the ship. Women seen waving at the USS Barry (DD-248) in October 1922, as she departs Hampton Roads, Virginia, for the Mediterranean, to serve with the U. S. Naval Detachment in Turkish Waters. View of USS Kane (DD-235) with sailors lined up on her foredeck. View from stern of a Squadron 14 destroyer, of the USS Hatfield (DD-231) followed by the USS Barry (DD-248). View from bridge of a destroyer, as officer looks through binoculars at five other destroyers of Squadron 14, underway in a line. Sailors on deck of destroyer practice handling of small arms and on of the ship's 5-inch guns. Sailors spin propellors on tail of a torpedo and load it into one of a battery of three launching tubes. Sailors exercise by throwing a medicine ball.View from destroyer of 5 destroyers in line, astern, the first being USS Overton (DD-239). View from a destroyer as the Squadron enters harbor at Gibralter. Sailors climbing upon concrete pier from a long boat. Buildings on steep hills of Gibralter. The USS Hatfield and the USS Gilmer (DD-233) on either side of a supply ship. Views of Destroyer Squadron 14 ships anchored, along with other warships off Constantinople (Istanbul)in the Bosphorus straits. View from a high point in Constantinople. Camera pans over city and warships in the Bosphorus.
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