Germany's successive attack over England during World War II. German soldiers observe papers at a desk and prepare for direct invasion over England. The soldiers observe back lighted reconnaissance photos with a magnifying glass and observe forms of ships. A German pilot inside an aircraft in flight low near the coast of Dover, Portsmouth, and Plymouth. A German torpedo boat, or Schnellboots aka S-boot or S-boat, at sea running at high speed. German sailors and officers on the deck of a Schnellboots torpedo boat. German Army paratroopers in training for jumps. German paratroopers jump from simulated aircraft at low height, and hanging from wires, as they practice landing and rolling. German paratroopers at the open door of an aircraft and jumping in a line from the aircraft in flight. A number of parachutes in the air. A sketch shows the layers of British defensive positions from the coast inward. British flying boat over water. Gun turret of flying boat in action. Allied signal man soldier using portable signal lamp. Sailor on ship using large signal lamp. A British ship in the rough North Sea during a squall storm. British sailors in mine laying operation drop large round naval contact mines with protruding Hertz horns visible, into the sea. Booms with steel submarine nets in front of a British harbor to catch submarines and surface craft.
U.S. Army air defense gun crews, of the 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, exercise at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. U.S. soldiers come out of their tent houses in response to alarm. They run towards antiaircraft guns. A soldier is striking the alarm gong. The gun crews man the batteries and commence loading and aiming. A soldiers rotates a wheel to change elevation of a gun barrel. Soldiers at a table monitor radar. The crews fire antiaircraft guns. A radar dish on the top a building. Soldiers jump from trucks as they return to their tent area.
'The Story of Hanford' about the activities of the Atomic Energy Commission and parts of the atomic bomb Manhattan Project conducted at Camp Hanford in Richland, Washington. Houses of the workers construction buildings for the project. Trucks are driven on a highway. Railroad carries material to the Hanford site. An aerial view of the plant with three nuclear reactors. Reactor for the production of plutonium. A plant for the separation of pure metal. Workers work at the plant to convert uranium into plutonium. The workers wear protective gear work. A worker opens the door of the area where plutonium is stored. Two workers bring air tight containers of plutonium on a trolley. A worker makes a note of it and places the containers in a lock. The energy of plutonium is compared with other fuels. The plant for the separation of plutonium from uranium. A map shows different places from which fissionable uranium and plutonium for the production of bombs can be obtained. People read newspapers.
The life of Americans in the 1920s. Women dance the Charleston. A man dances the Charleston with a woman. Musicians play in the background. Patrons of Steeplechase Park, in Coney Island, on a spinning wheel. Clown steer a woman to where her dress gets blown up from a hidden air jet. Women on the boardwalk in batihing suits and being arrested by police. A man lifts up a woman during the dance performance. A sketch shows women applying make up. Several scenes showing the gap between the people who could accept the modern ideas and those who couldn't. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Views of Steelmaking at steel factory plants. A scene with the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK. People protesting the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, accused anarchists. Various banners during the protests.
The role of women in in the United States Army. A nurse helps an injured soldier in a hospital. A physiotherapist moves the leg of a soldier. A women dietitian works in the laboratory. View of Congress, on June 1948, during passage of the Women's Armed Services Act. Colonel Mary A. Hallaren being appointed as the first WAC officer in the regular Army of the United States. General George Marshall witnesses the appointment and swears in Sergeant Bates, as the first enlisted woman in the regular Army, as Colonel Hallaren witnesses. Women recruits arrive at WAC processing center by train. They get into a bus. Women enter the WAC training center. They are issued uniforms. Women being taught military matters in open air classrooms. WAC in close order drill, and donning gas masks.
South Korean soldiers of Republic of Korea (ROK) on the road with rifle and full field packs. ROK troops moving through brush-covered terrain, with camouflage of natural materials. Shells bursting in air. ROK troops firing recoilless weapon from concealed position. Shells striking targets. ROK troops firing machine gun. Numerous shells bursting on targets with smoke rising.
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