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American paratroops trained in United States

A film titled 'These are the parachutists' shows paratroops being trained for combat in United States. They blast obstacles, jump forward and backward from a training platform. They undergo physical training. They make practice jumps from towers and also learn to pack parachutes.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038661
American paratroops make their first landing from a C-47 plane during training in the United States, during World War 2.

Paratroopers lined and board C-47 air craft in United States. They jump from the air craft and land with parachutes as field master observes them. In views of a different jump, paratroopers land on snow covered mountain and ski down the slope. Paratrooper in studio describing his uniform and attitude of paratroopers. Close view of paratrooper wings medal on a uniform.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038662
Wartime nutrition public service film focuses on improving nutrition of American and British people. Also shows British war scenes.

Film on importance of good food and good eating habits during World War 2. Sweeping views of open farm land in the United States. Wheat harvesting by a harvester machine on a farm. Corn picked from stalks. Pigs in a pen. Cattle eat at a trough. Fish leaping on deck of a boat after being emptied from a net. Butcher weighs meat on a scale for a woman customer. Grocer puts meat, sugar, eggs, and other rationed items in a grocery bag. Scene changes to England, probably London, with smoking rubble on the ground from a blitz bombing run by German forces during World War 2. British firemen pour water on a blaze from fire hoses. A queue of British women and children citizens waits to receive food aid. Many of the British civilians look tired. A girl holds a large doll in her arms. A woman with a bandaged head holds a young girl child. Scene shows a British family at a table eating ration reduced portions of eggs, butter, and cheese. A British scientist holds a beaker and adds it to a large food preparation drum, adding vitamin enriched material to a food such as margarine, to aid with improving nutrition despite scarcity in the United Kingdom during World War 2. A box of butter is shown. Hand flips butter packet over to show label "Contains Vitamins A and D". British staples such as a wheat bread loaf and also beans, peas, and cereals are credited by the narrator as being "nerve conditioners, at a time when iron nerves are needed most." Footage of a British paratrooper in training jumping from a British aircraft. Next scene is in a steel mill as British men wearing protective glasses use shovels near a furnace. Scene of a British woman receiving cod liver oil and milk as a ration for a young child. Grocer at produce stand hangs sign saying "no tomatoes". But a victory garden sign behind shows someone pushing a shovel into the earth. People are shown working in victory gardens to grow fresh vegetables. All ages of older men and women and young children in England are shown working to tend victory gardens in plots large and small. Soldiers beneath a barrage balloon tend a garden with hoes. Scene in a community kitchen with a group of British citizens eating a meal. Next scene shows Americans in a restaurant and then in a diner ordering food at the diner counter. A woman orders and coffee is poured for her and two donuts are served. Narrator notes that the food nutrition choices made by many Americans are not good, and notes that malnutrition saps the strength of Americans. A woman secretary is seen typing and being frustrated and tired. A man welding lifts his helmet and rubs his head and face in exhaustion. A doctor and nurse examine and treat an eye of an American war worker. A U.S. Army recruitment or induction center is shown, with new recruits receiving medical examinations. Doctor uses a tongue depressor and examines a person's throat. A blood pressure machine takes a reading. An eye chart is shown. Doctor uses a stethoscope on a recruit's chest. Group of U.S. Army soldiers marching in formation. A group of new citizen recruits without uniforms marches.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038751
Dr. Thomas Parran, Surgeon general of United States Public Health Service advises to take a nutritious diet

Doctor Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service speaks from a desk and advises Americans to eat a nutritious diet and to study the nutrition values of various foods available. He notes that war demands that we do not waste food. Women in a classroom learn about nutrition. Message on blackboard says: Protective Foods: Fruits, Vegetables, milk. Women taught how to prepare food with economy and about the ingredients of a balanced diet. Women are taught how to prepare food in an economical way that preserves nutrition. Women are taught about a balanced diet in which variety is essential. They are taught how to substitute various ingredients while some ingredients are unavailable due to wartime shortages during World War 2. Camera pans slowly across a poster with words and food pictures entitled "Foods that are the Principal Sources of the Food Constituents."

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038752
Importance of well balanced diet for American citizens at home and at work during World War II

Importance of well balanced diet during World War 2. American man seated at a table eats food. A housewife serves more food to him. Narrator talks about importance of nutrition, having three square meals each day, eggs and other protein foods, and vitamin B rich foods such as cereal of whole wheat, or enriched white bread. A worker on the job is shown taking a lunch break. Close up view of his open thermos with a hot drink and his sandwich and fruit and a chocolate bar. A couple dining together at a table for dinner are seen. Narrator suggest chicken, fish, liver, or sweetbreads as a main course, served with green leafy salad and also cooked vegetables like peas or carrots. A man carves meat. Men walk near a war materiel production factory gate, with a sign, "Let's step it up." Women at a factory production plant prepare large numbers of sandwiches for workers, with the help of automated machinery. Narrator says average workers need twice as many vegetables and fruits as they now consume. A group of men in an industrial kitchen work to prepare carrots, spinach, cauliflower, and other vegetables like squash, parsnips, and lima beans. African American cooks prepare food. Factory workers line up and take prepared food trays at a factory kitchen. Workers sit outside and enjoy food during a lunch break. Young men and women in a cafeteria line select foods to eat. War workers exit at the end of a work day. View of the U.S. Capitol dome. On screen public service message text says "U.S. Needs US strong. Eat nutritional food."

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038753
Differences between United States P-40 and Japanese Zero fighter plane

Recognition of Japanese Zero fighter plane and differences between a Zero and United States P-40 plane. An enactment shows a pilot Ronald Reagan understand the differences and similarities between the United states P-40 and Japanese Zero plane. He mistakingly fires at a P-40 and later attacks and shoots down a Zero plane. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 18 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038779