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.
Activities of the U.S. civil defense officials in El Paso, Texas. A board reads 'El Paso City Limit pop. 182500'. Buses parked on road side. Automobile traffic in front of the buses. A line of cars being driven on road. A helicopter in flight above the cars. A civil defense official holds a civil defense flag and directs the cars. Wing of the aircraft in flight. Civil defense officials work on a map. Automobile traffic in front of a truck and a motorbike parked on ground. A U.S. aircraft in flight.
Film opens showing a muezzin reentering the minaret at the end of Via Dolorosa in the old City of Jerusalem, Palestine. Camera pans down to street level with many pedestrians. Two Palestinian merchants sit outdoors with their display of soap for sale. Closeup of a soap merchant weighing blocks of soap for a customer. Closeup of a hooded man on the street. Another closeup of a young Palestinian woman holding some flowers. A woman with a child in arms carrying a shopping basket, passes a shop keeper polishing brass ware. A merchant combing animal skins. A man pulling a cart loaded with a large bundle of goods along a narrow walkway.
Detroit Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan in June 1943, during World War 2, and early in Civil Rights movement. Police disperse crowd from the street. Army patrol walks down the street in section of city. Two soldiers in front of the "HH Bowles Radio Service" store, with paint marked sign "colored" written on the store window, consistent with Jim Crow segregation practices, to identify it as an African American run business and discourage whites from patronizing it. Five U.S. soldiers holding light machine guns patrol on the street. Soldiers cross street. White youths exit from patrol wagon or paddy wagon and appear to be joking around. The youths pose in front of the patrol wagon. Police bus being driven. Views of U.S. Army tent camp in a field in Detroit. Firemen spray water on a burning automobile set on fire during the racially motivated riot. Smoke all around the burned vehicle. People stand on street and watch.
The German viewpoint of events during the Polish Campaign in Poland. A map shows German troops establishing contacts with the Russians in the inter Polish territory. Negotiations between the German and the Russian units. After brief negotiations the German and the Russian units meet. A map shows Warsaw, the capital city of Poland, and Modlin.
German forces repulse attack during Soviet Riga Offensive Operation in Latvia, Estonia, in World War 2. A map shows German-Soviet front around city of Riga, on Eastern Front.. German units repulse a Soviet attack, using artillery, Nebelwerfer rockets, tank destroyers and infantry with Panzerfaust antitank weapons. Medium shot of soldier firing Panzerfaust anti-tank weapon.
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