The City of Dayton, Ohio's local war manpower and emergency committee members are seen gathered around a table to discuss what other than just more workers is needed to meet the war production goals set for the city during World War 2. An animated diagram superimposed on a drawing of a factory, charts the labor needs vs. labor supply. For the management side, the chart cites matters that need to be addressed, including: personnel management; plant layout; reduction in turnover, and absenteeism; and better working conditions, Regarding labor itself, the chart cites the following as needed: additional women; transfers from non-essential jobs; minority groups; part-time workers; and handicapped workers. Next, the emergency committee of community leaders is seen around a table. They are being addressed by Stanley C. Allyn, President of the National Cash Register Company, who notes that Dayton has partially solved its manpower shortage and expects to meet its war production goals.Camera pans over attendees, including labor leaders from AF of L and CIO; Government officials present, including Area Director and Deputy Regional Director of the War Manpower Commission, and Chief of Program Requirements for the Region; leading industrialists and retailers are shown. Local officials seen include the Mayor of Dayton and Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce as well as the Commanding Army Air Forces Generals of Wright Field and Patterson field. Mr. Allyn discusses further work to be done with as much emphasis on human relations as on the mechanics of production. An animated map shows Dayton and other areas of labor shortage, all over the United States. Workers in a factory are seen moving propeller blades across the floor by twirling them on end. Propellers assembled on their hubs are moved across the factory floor on wheeled stands. Artillery shells are seen protruding from containers. Browning aircraft machine guns moving along a conveyor belt. M3 Lee tanks being completed and moving across a factory floor. Glimpse of bombers in production. Army trucks lined up in formation at a factory yard. Closeups of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Narrator notes importance Eisenhower places on full support from the home front as essential to the war effort.)
View of the Lisbon Airport (Alameda das Comunidades Portuguesas, 1700-111 Lisboa, Portugal) in Lisbon, Portugal. Portugal-colonies Line plane on runway. Italian Savoia Marchetti plane. Arrival of several planes including Portuguese transport plane, Italian planes, Douglas plane of the London Lisbon Line. An Aero Portuguesa Wibault 283.T12 (CS-ABX) taxiing. Unloading air mail and Portuguese Custom officer. Douglas plane fueled. Italian plane of the Ala Littoria Savoia Marchetti SM.75 C of the Genoa-Barcelona-Lisbon Line. Tails of English, Italian and Portuguese planes lined up. Air stairs of planes of several airlines. German aircraft with Swastika symbol on tail takes off.
Drivers climb aboard Two German Panzer VI Tiger tanks to demonstrate them at a proving ground in Germany. during World War 2. Views of the tanks moving rapidly across a field. One rolls over a fairly large tree. View of one descending a steep hill rolling over small trees. Closeup of the tread mechanism. Turret rotating on one as it moves forward. A tank backing up, setting into position, and firing its 88mm gun. Round bursting in the distance. Firing at a line of target vehicles. Round strikes a target tank. German Army officers observing through binoculars. Closeup of the target tank burning. Change of scene to an area of combat in Europe during World War 2. A machine gun is firing out the window of an abandoned house. German tank approaches with its gun pointed rearward. It runs over a tree and drives through the wall of the house. It then proceeds through the entire building which collapses around it as it moves. It emerges and drives away.
Map Shows location of Port Darwin in Australia. A Japanese naval convoy is under attack by U.S. Planes. Heavy splashes and explosions in water. A Japanese sailor aboard a ship looks through his binoculars. Japanese infantry advances through the New Guinea jungle. A bombed hangar. Wrecked planes inside the hangar. Japanese plane takes off from an airport recently captured from the Americans. Japanese troops inside bombers flying at a high altitude above Darwin. Japanese bombers drop bombs on Darwin. Heavy smoke rises from the explosions. (World War II period).
A German Submarine moves through heavy seas in the Caribbean. Water breaks on the submarine's bow. View of the crew cabins inside the submarine. Sailor rests inside his cabin. A sailor decorates a miniature Christmas tree. Food prepared inside kitchen. Calendar date reads 'December 24'. Sailors celebrate on Christmas Eve. Sailors are shown a miniature ship model and a cactus plant. All burst in laughter. View of the horizon as seen from the submarine's deck.
Map of the Caribbean is shown. A German sailor aboard a German submarine looks through his binoculars. The submarine moves through heavy seas. German officer looks through submarine's periscope. The coastline of Curacao is seen through the periscope. An allied freighter is spotted. German sailors prepare to attack. Shows several instrument panels, radar and gauges inside the submarine. Torpedo is fired from the submarine. German sailors cerebrate at the deck. Allied freighter gets destroyed and sunk. (World War II period).