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Farming equipment plows a field and food is distributed to people in the United States.

Postwar ( World War II ) agriculture activities in the United States. A tractor driven on a field. A farmer drinks water. Views of a farm land. A huge smoke tail rises as a ship burns. American workers sitting. Farming equipment plows a field. Views of eroded land. Buildings and monuments. Officials seated in a building. Soldiers eat food. Food is distributed to people. Tractors and cattle on farms. Milk containers are loaded.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058165
American farmers increase production of agricultural products needed during World War II

Film opens with series of animated maps of the United States, showing the States that are the typical sources of agricultural products, including wheat, corn, dairy products, beef cattle, cotton, flax, lumber, and fruits and vegetables. A woman in overalls places fresh cut corn from a truck on to a conveyor. Farmers pitch hay from trucks. Momentary glimpse of a warehouse on a waterway, with a railroad train running to it, and a large cargo ship docked beside it. A federal official briefs a group of farm state officials and farm families, about the need for increased agricultural production, during World War 2. Closeups of persons in the audience. Scene shifts to window of a modest wooden home with anchor symbol two blue stars displayed for family members in military service. Closeup of the two blue stars in the window. With many men gone in military service, women and youth fill the labor gaps. A women at the wheel of a piece of farm equipment. A boy picking fruit from a tree. View of a large vacant lot in a city being used for numerous "Victory Gardens." A girl digging with a spade in one of the gardens. Other gardeners conversing in the background. A woman storing mason jars of preserved fruits and vegetables on a shelf in her home. Farmers performing maintenance and repairs on farm machinery. Momentary view of farmers loading crates of foods onto an open truck. Women placing vegetables into cans at a factory. Cattle moving into a pen. Men loading bales of cotton onto a river boat. A large freighter being loaded at a port. A farmer treating the soil with something dispensed from a spreader behind his tractor. A farmer harvesting corn by machinery. Three dead pigs, on the ground, (victims of disease.) Cattle foraging close to one another in a pasture. Insects attacking crops as there is a shortage of insecticides during the war. Severe weather causing crop losses is seen. A farmer harvesting with a combine. A document is shown labeled PL 147 77th Congress (the Steagall Bill). (Narrator states it guaranteed prices of 90 percent of parity for war needed crops.) Brochures for alternate crops that farmers might consider because foreign supplies were cut off. A farmer removes an envelope from his mail box. (Narrator alludes to government supplied crop loans and dairy feed payments.) Corn being piled up. Pigs at feeding troughs. Men loading crates of food onto a truck. fresh cut logs rolling into a river. Complete change of scene to Piazzale Loreto, in, Milan, Italy, 1945, where Benito Mussolini and other fascist leaders are seen hung upside down. Adolph Hitler and Marshal Hermann Goering at Berteschgaden. Japanese Emperor Hirohito astride a white horse leading some of his senior military officers as they review assembled troops.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058166
American workers construct homes for farmers and school children eat distributed food in the United States.

Postwar ( World War II ) agriculture activities in the United States. American workers construct homes for farmers. A worker hammers wooden boards. A workers paints a wall of a building. A farming equipment in operation on contour farming. A farm land. Mountains in the background. Cattle and tractors on farms. A man works on drainage. A truck drives past. Trees are cut. Logs are taken to a factory in trucks. The logs are cut by a machine. Cargo is loaded on a ship. School children eat distributed food during school programs. A machine in operation. A chemist works in a laboratory. A tractor plows a field.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058168
Lieutenant Hamilton calls OSS cadets' names and gives instructions during their training in the United States.

Military training of OSS cadets provided by the Office of Strategic Services in the United States, for agents who are assigned a military cover during World War 2. The OSS cadets get off a truck. Lieutenant Hamilton calls out the cadets' names. The cadets come and stand in one row. Lieutenant Hamilton gives them instructions. The cadets turn back and go away. They enter a building. They attend a lecture given by Lieutenant Hamilton.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058171
OSS Cadets exercise, eat food and learn to make beds during their training in the United States.

Military training of OSS cadets. Agents who are assigned a military cover during World War II, receive training provided by the Office of Strategic Services in the United States. The cadets learn to make their beds. An alarm goes off. The cadets wake up, dress, and turn up for physical exercises. The cadets do the exercises and calisthenics as taught by an instructor. The cadets in a chow line receiving a meal. They take food. They sit at a table and eat food.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058172
OSS Cadets learn about marksmanship, hand-to-hand combat and first aid during their training in the United States.

Military training of OSS agents being assigned a military cover during World War 2. OSS Cadets in training by the Office of Strategic Services in the United States. The cadets march and drill as a sergeant teaches them. The cadets stand with rifles.They learn marksmanship, tactical field work and hand-to-hand combat. Soldiers attend a class to learn first aid for battle and non battle injuries via demonstrations, charts and training films.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058173