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Men and women working in different war production factories for the production of raw materials and armament for World War 2 effort

The production of war materiel and supplies for soldiers and sailors in the United States during World War II. Newspaper headlines read: '1942 income 117 billions'. Men working in war production factories. Manufacture of aluminum and steel for the war effort. Sheet of aluminum rolling down conveyor in factory. View of assembly floor in a production plant building bomber aircraft. Brass being processed in factories, and hands of a worker sifting through new bullet casings in an ammunition factory. Use of copper exemplified in engine wiring and telephone communications applications. Steel being forged in factory. War ship being launched and a new Liberty ship SS Richard Bassett being launched from ship building slips on May 22, 1942. Tanks being built in a factory. Elevated view of many wood army barracks being built at an army base or camp. Then a view of homes being built as housing for war production workers. Lumber operations underway and coal miner in coal mines. A chart depicts the last year's production goals and then animated chart showing the production goals for the coming year shooting sky high. A sign on a door reads: 'Lt. Gen Brehon Somervell, Commanding General, ASF'. Lt. General Somervell seated at a desk in his office. He talks about engineers and technicians working for the U.S. Army and making materials go further to do more jobs than ever before.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076710
ASF Commanding General Brehon Somervell speaking about the problem of substitution and conversion of needed World War 2 supplies

Production of supplies for American soldiers during World War II. Commanding General of Army Service Forces( ASF ) Brehon B. Somervell seated at a desk in his office in the United States. He explains the serious problem of substitution and conversion and what is being done by American science to meet these needs. Somervell states that he is issuing an order: A command to think along new lines regarding every product essential to the war. He asks: 1) Can it be made as well of some less critical material; 2) Can it be made better, faster, or in greater quantity by some other method of production? He calls on viewers to draw on the brains and ingenuity. View of ordnance insignia. Interior of an office. An officer and a draftsman examine a machine gun. Exhibit of mannequins wearing uniforms with supplies for soldiers and nurses. Miniature tents and kitchen equipment. An officer and executives from two rubber production companies check synthetic rubber and collaborate on improvements. Radio engineers at work in front of equipment checking new type equipment. Workers weighing equipment and finding ways to make needed supplies lighter in weight. Chemical warfare officers at work. A soldier with a new plastic gas mask comes out of a room. Medical and other industry leaders around a conference table. Men gathered around tables planning improvements. Workers entering a large aircraft production factory. A man places a paper in a suggestion box labeled "ideas for increasing production."

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 22 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076711
Peaceful scenic views of flowers, mountains, rivers, sail boats,and a home, in Vietnam

First in a series of clips from a film about the life of Ho Chi Minh. Bucolic scenes of Viet-nam (Vietnam). Water lily flowers on water bed. Box with Chinese character inscription on it. An alter in a family hut. Rocks on hillside. Flotilla of sailboats. Mountainous terrain. A family home with banana trees in foreground.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Vietnamese
Clip: 65675044073
U.S. 6th Fighter Squadron 5th Air Force troops disembark plane and unload supplies from a C-47 in Tsili Tsili, New Guinea (WW2)

Transport of supplies and personnel to Tsili Tsili for Salamua invasion in New Guinea during World War II. Two C-47s taxi and take off. Nose of a plane "The Golden Arrow" in the foreground. A C-47 is in flight. Men of U.S. 6th Fighter Squadron 5th Air Force disembark from a plane at Tsili Tsili. Native labors assist in unloading the supplies. The troops unload the C-47 "The Zephyr". Smoke in the background. The troops at an airfield. Planes in formation. Planes at the airfield and troops in the foreground. Smoke rises in the distance. The planes on the airstrip.

Date: 1943, August 31
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044785
C-47s land and units of 7th Australian Division disembark and unload planes in Nadzab, New Guinea.

Arrival of units of 7th Australian Division at an air field in Nadzab, New Guinea. A C-47 plane lands at Nadzab airfield. Planes and units of 7th Australian Division on the airfield. The troops unload the plane. The C-47 takes off. Troops disembark from the plane and unload supplies. The plane is in flight. At the airfield the troops unload the planes. A soldier erects a direction board which reads 'Assembly Area' and another soldier holds a direction board which reads 'Transit Camp'. A C-47 takes off. Planes and soldiers at the airfield. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, September 8
Duration: 1 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044786
View of landscape and a smashed Douglas C-47 Skytrain in Nadzab, New Guinea. (WW2)

A runway in Nadzab, New Guinea. The runway and landscape seen through a side window as a plane takes off. Three planes on an airfield. Smoke in the background. A smashed Douglas C-47 Skytrain. (World War II period)

Date: 1943, September 8
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044787