Capabilities of various U.S. ships employed for transportation of troops and vehicles. U.S. Amphibious Force Flagship or AGC (Amphibious Command Ship) underway at sea. View of Joint Operations Center and Joint Communication centers aboard AGC. APA (Attack Transport Personnel) ship underway at sea. Troops move down a cargo net from APA onto a landing craft. Hospital Class APA ship underway at sea. AKA (Attack Cargo Ship) underway at sea. LCMs (Landing Crafts Mechanized) on deck of AKA. AKA at harbor.
Protestant churches in cities near war relocation centers (internment camps) sponsor social activities for Japanese-American soldiers from U.S. Army camps, during World War 2. Japanese-American women at a table, greeting Japanese-American soldiers entering a dance sponsored by a church. Japanese-American soldiers socializing and dancing with young women from a nearby relocation center..
General Henry H. Arnold, Commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces, seated in front of world map, reports that since start of World War 2, the U.S. Air Force has gone from number 7, to number 1, in the world. Defense plant workers are shown walking near their place of work. A college football game shown in progress. Individual young men who left civilian life to became pilots, bombardiers, radio technicians, and gunners, in the Air Forces. A commercial DC-3 aircraft taxing to park at an airport. Shown are people who make the Air Forces possible, including many men and women workers at factories and manufacturing plants making aircraft and parts for the World War 2 effort: Steel workers, a woman working on a plane fuselage, actor James Stewart (in uniform), a welder at work, a typist, a machinist using a caliper, and an older couple at home, who forgoe driving their private car, shown covered in their garage. The flaming wreckage of U.S. aircraft at Hickam Field, on December 7, 1941. Large formation of German Heinkel He-111 bombers in flight. Formation of Japanese Mitsubishi G3M (Nell) bombers. U.S. P-40 pursuit planes taxiing out from parking places. Assembly line in U.S. aircraft manufacturing plant. U.S. Army Air Forces B-17 Flying Fortress planes on assembly lines. Workmen work on engines and aircraft fuselages. At the Douglas plant U.S. Army Air Forces B-26 Marauder bombers being assembled. Workmen inserting machine guns into a wing.
U.S. Army Air Force activities during World War 2. An aviation cadet stands. Group of aviation cadets on flight line at an airfield. Animation of groups going through air and ground training. AT-6 Texan training planes in flight. WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots or WASP) board AT-6s. Woman in cockpit of a U.S. Army Air Forcs C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Two women in cockpit of a plane towing a gunnery target. WACs (Women's Army Corps) in a control hangar. Woman fuels an aircraft.
Amputation of U.S. soldiers in U.S. who were wounded during World War II. Shows feet of patient affected with trench foot resulted in gangrene. Leg of a patient after being hit by a shell fragment. Amputated limb of a patient. Doctors examine a case of gangrene. Doctors take a look at patient's report at a desk. Doctor writes on reports and hands it over to another doctor. Surgeons perform operation on a patient. Surgeons conduct amputation of limb. Amputated limb being dusted. Amputee raises his leg on bed. X-ray of an amputated limb.
Dramatization of methods used by Axis Powers in maritime sabotage operations against Allied Forces in World War II. Method of attack shows different kinds of clothing worn by swimmer. Swimmers swim in water. Method of attacking a ship shows swimmer with camouflaged face comes close to a ship and removes his mask and puts on a nose clip. Swimmer then goes underwater.
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