Film 'Homes For Defense' on the construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Houses constructed for soldiers and war production workers through the Federal Defense Housing Program. Houses for the people who construct planes, ships and guns for the protection of America. View of run down tenements and slum housing in a city or town. A car parked outside a house. Children stand near a fence outside the house. A map shows industrial centers. Men move to various industrial centers. Newport News: workers work on machinery for the Battle of Atlantic. Hartford: workers work on machine guns. Detroit: workers in an auto industry. Rock Island: workers in industry make coastal field artillery. Rolla Waynesville: army men at a training center. Corpus Christi: Army men at a new airfield to accommodate the expanding air force. Aircraft in flight. San Diego: workers construct planes in a factory. Signs of the various housing agencies that are doing a special job under the coordinated program.
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. Men construct house trailers for the American defense people. The top of a trailer house is lowered. A woman with a child smiles. A man picks up the child. Trailer houses and recreational vehicles (RV) in the background. A woman walks with a baby carriage or pram. Trailer houses in a row. The side of a house reads 'US TVA'.
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Workers work on the roof of a house. They paint the roof. A house under construction. Houses constructed under the coordinated defense housing program. Trucks and road rollers used for construction. People move in front of the completed houses. A woman hangs clothes on a clothes line outside a house and a child sits on stairs. A woman in a kitchen takes out a jar from an early refrigerator or icebox. She pours it in mugs. Two young boy children seated at a dining table drink the milk. Aerial views of the houses. Man with family holding a child waves.
A girl and an older man in the back seat of an automobile are driven past prefabricated houses in the United States.
A wedding in the United States. The wedding party leaves a church. A sign on the back of an automobile reads 'Just Married'. The couple seated in the automobile. The automobile is driven away.
People in a camping trailer in the United States. A mountain valley. An automobile being driven. The automobile pulls a small trailer. A group gets out of the automobile. Men take out camping gear from the trailer. They unfold the sides of the trailer. Men unfold a tent. The group seated in the tent eats. A car and a tent with its flaps closed.
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