Shows tracks of a moving tank. Workers manufacturing tank-tracks in factory. Huge rubber inflated tire-tubes rolled out of factory by workers and loaded on trucks.Shows a Car in Akron Ohio performing various strain tests on tires over different road surfaces. July 1941.
People of Wilmington Ohio including hundreds of children collect scrap aluminum metal for the War cause during ration effort for World War 2. Small boy throws metal cup toward three Boy Scouts in truck loaded with scrap metal. Scrap metal deposited under banner saying "ALUMINUM FOR DEFENSE". Boy Scouts pose for camera with scrap metal in hands. They add scraps to collected pile.
Briefing session of officers on Operation Thunderstorm at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington,Ohio. Drawing of P-61 Black Widow on the board. P-61's stand on field. Man checks film on a moviola. View of transformers used for man made lightening. Man walks inside a huge ribbed cylinder. A specially equipped plane's canopy is subjected to bolt of man-made lightning. Briefing group on radar and Rotating radar antenna. Operators work at radar sets in a Nissen hut. Men rig cameras. Storm indication on radar screen. Radar unit in a van. Antenna rotating. P-61 comes in for landing. Radar van in foreground. Briefing on weather bureau research. Civilian pointing to station on chart. Weather testing balloons are sent aloft. Man at a tracking radar set. Weather map received on facsimile receiver. Man removes message (readings) from a teletype.
Technician draws lines and shades area on a weather map at the U.S. Air Force's All Weather Flying Center in Wilmington, Ohio. A U.S. Sergeant in radar station checks shaded areas on the map. Indication of storm on radar scope. Pilots rush to P-6s or Black Widows and take off. Five P-61s in flight. A P-61 enters a stormy cloud. Inside the cockpit view of the Pilot of P-61 in flight. View of radar antenna at ground base and men at radar station. P-61s fly through stormy weather. Technicians gather reports and look at record films on moviolas. A P-61 in flight gains altitude and banks.
World's largest bomber (of its day) on first public demonstration flight at airfield in Dayton,Ohio. A Boeing Y1B-9 bomber taxis on ramp at Wright Field. The all-metal aircraft has open cockpits. Pilot in center of aircraft and crew member visible in nose gunner position. Change of scene shows a man standing behind the empennage of the parked bomber and moving its huge metal rudder slightly. The bomber taking off towards the camera over a grassy field, and later, in flight, .being observed and photographed from accompanying airplanes (partially visible).
The city of Dayton, Ohio working to deal with its housing shortage during World War 2. Influx of World War II war production workers causes many workers to live in group homes and shelters. Women in an open common area of a shelter with many bunks and cots for beds. Men and women are seen in shared living quarters, doing ordinary thing, such as reading , conversing, sewing, and ironing clothes, and preparing food in a common kitchen. A billboard in a field, announces "Hartman Homes, developed by the Dayton Metropolitan Housing Authority. A victory Housing Project of the Federal Public Housing Authority." Camera pans to show a wide expanse of ground being worked with a steam shovel, as construction begins. Engineers and builders look over plans at the job site. Scene shifts to another housing project site with some attached houses already constructed. At another location several fairly large single family dwellings are seen in mid-stage of construction. A low apartment house is seen under construction as well as various new streets with newly built homes. A large building in downtown Dayton displays a sign reading: "This property is being remodeled to house War Workers."
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