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Members of Civilian Conservation Corps work at Camps and Parks in mountainous areas.
Civilian Conservation Corps men leave basic training camp by railroad train. At their destination, they step from the train, unload their supplies and equipment from baggage car into a truck, and board Army trucks that carry them through a town and out to a rustic camp in a pine forest, where tents are set up and buildings are under construction.They commence work on the unfinished structures. Views of completed barracks buildings and smooth dirt roads. View of white tents pitched in neat rows on hillside. Trucks loaded with CCC workers leaves a camp. View of a CCC camp out west, with large cactus ,and rugged mountain landscape. CCC men setting up picnic tables and benches at a park, by a lake surrounded by mountains. an encampment with row of tents and several utility buildings, in a canyon surrounded by beautiful mountains. (Great Depression period)
President Franklin D Roosevelt visits a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp
Cars carrying President Franklin D Roosevelt and his party arrive at a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp in the Great Depression. Members of the CCC line the dirt road and watch as the local Army supervisor speaks with the President. Roosevelt sits at a table and speaks to the assembled CCC members.
American industry focuses on defense and war materiel production during World War II
Film opens showing smoke pouring from industrial smoke stacks in American manufacturing plants, during World War 2. Sparks fly from crucible of molten steel. Steel workers silhouetted against fog as they leave on a shift change. Men tapping an open hearth furnace in a steel mill. Hot steel being poured in Crucibles and then into steel containers on rails. Huge overhead cranes moving in a mill. A Bessemer converter furnace tilted and blowing with flames extended from its mouth. (A smoke ring leaves the converter.) Various views of activities in steel mills with flaming steel involved and processing such as extrusion and forging taking place. Closeups of hardworking steel workers handling white hot steel ingots. Sheets of aluminum being processed in rolling mills and then inspected. Scene shifts to an oil field with numerous derricks and then to a refinery, with 10 tall smoke stacks, where crude oil is made into gasoline. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, Bonneville, Boulder, and the Tennessee Valley, where hydroelectric power is produced. Churning waters being discharged through dam spillways. Huge number of men and women war factory workers seen in a shift change at a war production plant. Closeup of machines producing small arms and ammunition. A woman war production worker assembling an M1 Garand rifle. Others working on Browning 30 caliber M1919 machine guns and Browining Model 1917A1 water-cooled machine guns. Belts of machine gun ammunition being boxed for shipment. Shops where torpedoes, shells and bombs are machined. A worker checking out movement of a 40-mm Automatic Gun M1. Field artillery pieces covered outside a war plant. A 14 inch barrel, for a coastal gun or Navy ship, seen suspended from an overhead crane in a factory. Views of various such barrels including a view through one. Elements of mobile weapons being assembled. Jeeps being assembled and driven out of a factory at the rate of one per minute and temporarily stored in a yard. Special machinery grinding gears and other parts. Arc welders at work on weapons. M4A1 Sherman medium tanks being manufactured. View in factory of M3 Lee medium tanks being assembled. Rear view of one being fitted with its treads. Others are seen suspended from overhead crane.
Assembly of liberty ships at Kaiser Shipyards, assembly of airplanes at aircraft factories in America during World War II
Opening scene shows U.S. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser, demonstrating, on a scale model, how prefabricated parts are assembled into a Liberty Ship, in World war 2. Closeup shows each section of ship labeled by number and name, such as, “Transverse Bulkhead, number 44.” Scene shifts to Permanente Metals Corporation No. 2 shipyard in Richmond, California, where Liberty ships are seen in various stages of construction. Views of keels being laid, superstructures being raised into position, View from interior as skeleton of a ship is being completed. Sign atop the Liberty Ship, Robert E. Peary, as it is being launched, announces that it was completed from keel laying, to launch, in 4 days, 15 hours and 29 minutes. (This was a record for shortest time.) Camera view of the Robert E. Peary, from across the yard area where she was built. A brief view of shipyard activity at night, followed by camera panning over shipyard in daytime. Change of scene to an aircraft factory where B-17 bomber aircraft are being built. Women are seen riveting inside a plane’s fuselage. Other women work on a vertical stabilizer and still others work inside airplane structural members Men assemble an aircraft engine. Women fasten parts of engines together. Engines move through the plant on overhead cranes. An engine and propeller being placed into position on a wing with use of a crane. A right wing with two engines installed is moved into position for installation on a B-17 aircraft. Scene shifts to other aircraft factories building Martin Marauder B-26 aircraft; P-47 fighter aircraft;Navy Catalina aircraft; Douglas A-20 fighter bomber aircraft; and more B-17 bomber aircraft.
U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command activities during World War II.
U.S. Air Forces Air Traffic Controllers on duty at a control Tower in an airfield during World War 2.. Several multi-engine aircraft are parked on the ramp, outside, including two Douglas C-54 transport aircraft. One controller looks through binoculars. Next, airmen are seen loading cargo into an aircraft from a truck backed up to its side. Air Forces ground crewmen are silhouetted against a light sky as they watch aircraft take off while being ferried overseas. Parked behind them is a USAAF Consolidated B-24 bomber. A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber taking off. A Douglas A-26 Invader aircraft landing. A North American B-25 Mitchell bomber taking off. Next, numerous Douglas C-47 transport airplanes are seen taxiing on an airfield. View from directly in front of a C-47 aircraft as it takes off, and passes over the camera. View from ground of a low flying C-47, and then of several in loose formation flying overhead.
C-130 Tactical Airlift aircraft demonstrate Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System.
Low Altitude Parachute Extraction System shows airlift delivery method where aircraft deposits parachute supplies when landing is not possible. Parachute supplies deposited by an aircraft flying low. Parachute low delivery system shows a plane releasing parachute with supplies at a certain height from drop point at ground. Interior views of C-130 aircraft including pilot and controls. The cargo hatch is opened and the extraction parachute is deployed. Once the parachute catches the wind outside the craft, it pulls the connected supplies out of the plane and on to the ground. View of supply drop using many parachutes of different colors, with parachutes opening and supplies falling to ground. Supplies offloaded from aircraft at landing field.
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