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An officer shows safety precautions and control tower communication for flying a B-17 aircraft is carried out in the U.S.

A U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) training film on instructions to fly USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in the United States. An officer turns on a radio switch. Trainees wear head phones. Men check fuel pressure gauge. Governor control is operated to get desired revolutions per minute ( RPM). The RPM gauge shows readings. A system engineer communicates with men in aircraft. A gauge shows flap position. The flaps are turned down. A dial shows zero flap position. A compass chord, a hydrolic pressure gauge and a suction gauge show readings. A trainee turns a vacuum pump switch. He checks for oxygen cylinder pressure. An officer checks filter warning lights. A trainee turns on an output switch. A pilot communicates with a man in a control tower. A crew man gives hand signals to a man on the ground. The man removes wheel chokes. Switches and handles are operated as the aircraft taxis. The pilot locks the tail wheel. The aircraft taxis past other parked aircraft. Th pilot turns on the automatic control switch. The tail wheel is unlocked.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 7 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057844
Soldiers brush off snow and vehicles are driven on a snow covered road in Italy.

Snow covered areas in Italy. Snow covered tents of U.S. 94th Medical Evacuation hospital. A soldier removes snow from a tent. A board reads 'American Red Cross'. Soldiers walk around. The soldiers remove snow from vehicles and tents. Vehicles driven over a snow covered road. The soldiers spread gravel and stones on the road. The soldiers in the foreground as the vehicles are parked. A man near a search light. Men rotate the search light. The search light illuminates the roads. (World War II period).

Location: Italy
Date: 1944, December 25
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057850
Lt. Gen. Joe Stillwell lands at SEAC airfield in Ceylon, where he meets BG Frank Merrill, during World War II

A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft approaches a South East Asia Command airfield in Ceylon, in World War 2. As it taxis in after landing, the words: "Uncle Joe's Chariot" can be seen painted below the cockpit window, along with the China-Burma-India Command Insignia. U.S. Army Lieutenant General Joseph Warren Stilwell, AKA Joe (Vinegar) Stilwell, steps from the airplane's rear door carrying a campaign hat in his left hand. He shakes hands with Brigadier General Frank Dow Merrill (of Merrill's Marauders) and other officers. Stilwell (now wearing his campaign hat) converses with Merrill. Together, they walk toward a waiting staff car.

Location: Ceylon
Date: 1944, July 31
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057875
Soldiers engage in recreational activities like reading and playing cards in Italy.

Rest and relaxation services for soldiers provided by the United Service Organizations (USO) in Italy during World War II. In Anzio, Italy: U.S. Army soldiers do comic diving at a swimming pool during a water carnival. A man performs a serious dive, and then a clown performs a humourous dive from the high diving board. People watch the event. Men dressed as women (men in drag) during a bathing beauty contest. The men dressed as women and wearing makeup pass by. One is dressed like Mae West but smoking a cigar. The soldiers hold a casual rodeo event riding a bull and a horse until they are bucked off. Men and women at a beach. A man and a woman enjoy in water. In a USO club, soldiers suffering battle fatigue get a break and rest. Soldiers listen to a fellow soldier at a piano, as they sing. A soldier writes on a paper. Soldiers play cards, read and do other activities. Soldiers attend a dance with women brought in by the USO. Soldiers read in a U.S. Army library. Books and magazines on a table including many small pocket editions of popular books of the era.

Location: Italy
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058023
Movies are transported for soldiers who watch a film on Bougainville Island during World War II.

Work of the United Service Organizations (USO) on Bougainville Island during World War II. Soldiers enter a theater. They watch a movie. Soldiers set up a projector system in a camp. Tents in the background. The soldiers dance. An aircraft takes off. Crates of movies unloaded from the aircraft. A soldier sits on a truck. Soldiers come out of a foxhole. A board outside a tent reads 'Bougainville Roxy Theater, tonights feature'. The soldiers enter the tent. Soldiers carrying tables and chairs walk. A soldier gets seated.

Location: Bougainville Island Papua New Guinea
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058024
The Andrews Sisters sing for soldiers and recorded V-Discs are packed for transportation in the United States.

The United Service Organizations (USO) in the United States. The Andrews Sisters sing for soldiers. Men record the song. A man takes out a disc from a recorder. People pack discs. Men stack the packed discs. Two men check the packed V-discs. (World War II period).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1944
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675058025
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