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Old military equipment and armament being scrapped at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, United States.

Scrap processing operations at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, United States, for the World War 2 war effort. Shells piled up. Tanks in a sling as they are being placed for the scrap. Mortars, tanks, cannonballs and a German 42 cm Howitzer being scrapped at the proving grounds. British, German and French tanks are scrapped. Guns and field pieces are also scrapped. A man cuts a barrel of a gun. Old equipment so scrapped saves on steel, coal, man power and time.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042333
British books preserved in World War 2 by copying them to microfilm and storing them in United States Library of Congress.

British books being preserved from destruction during World War 2. Images from May 13, 1933 when twenty five thousand books were burned by Nazis in Germany on orders from Hitler. The book-burning included many classics of literature. Aerial view of London buildings burning at night from Nazi blitz raid during Battle of Britain. Books and important records being preserved by British as they transfer them to film, with one page of each book recorded to one frame of film, so that an entire book can be captured on a small roll of film. View of books copied onto motion picture film one page at a time by a British man. View of U.S. military personnel reviewing motion picture film used to image letters sent to troops via V-mail during the war. Narrator states that the filming process followed by the British is similar to the American mail filming process.The films being looked at by a man. Men pack the films in boxes for shipment to the United States. Wooden boxes being lifted by ship crane for transport. Exterior street view of United States Library of Congress building where the films are being kept. Librarian checking and stamping each film on arrival. Film being viewed on a large microfilm viewer. The description of each film on cards placed in the library card catalog. View of the original preservation films being filed and stored in shelves in the basement of the Library of Congress.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042334
The uses and the importance of colored grenades in a combat (WWII)

'Colored smoke grenades: their use in combat' shows the types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during combat in WW2. Colored smoke grenades burst. An orange smoke grenade burns. Grenades piled up in a crate. A soldier picks up a grenade from the crate and removes the outer can. He throws it on the ground and orange smoke rises from it. An aerial views of an area along a coast. Units advance in a field. An aircraft in flight. Different units burst different colored smoke grenades to pass on the information about their position to their Commander. The aircraft drops a colored grenade to get some information from the unit on advance. The unit sets off a purple grenade as an answer. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042930
The use of colored grenades by a unit cut off from its headquarters during combat in WW2.

The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during combat in WWII. An enactment shows a unit in a forest which has been cut off from its headquarters. The leader of the unit sights a friendly reconnaissance plane and throws a green smoke grenade to signal their position. Another grenade burns indicating their immediate need. The pilot of the aircraft throws a sign grenade. He signals them the way to be followed by throwing a red smoke grenade along the road to be followed.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042931
Use of colored grenades by a unit to know the direction of the enemy fire during WW2.

The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during WWII. An enactment shows units during an advance. Laying out a cloth in an arrow sign indicating the direction of an enemy fire and burning a smoke grenade near it. The smoke signal indicates the help required by the unit in knowing the direction of the enemy fire. A reconnaissance plane surveys the combat area and enemy installations. A pillbox being located and smoke grenades being burst. Soldiers fire 4.2 mortars at the pillbox and smoke rises. Smoke engulfs the pillbox. Ground units attack the area. A soldier sets off a colored smoke grenade to indicate cease fire. Soldiers advance and smoke from colored grenades rises.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042932
Singer Al Trace along with his band, sings the song, "Let's All Back the Attack, during World War II bond drive. Scenes of War in Pacific.

Film opens showing Al Trace with his orchestra, singing a song entitled, "Let's All Back the Attack." As he sings in the background, scenes of American military operations in the Pacific theater are shown. U.S. troops jump from Landing craft during an amphibious assault in the Pacific during World War II. Troops leave the USS LCI(L)-343 (Landing Craft Infantry, Large) via side ramps during an amphibious landing. U.S. Marines carrying a wounded Marine on a stretcher during Battle of Tarawa. American Marines hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT). They attend to wounded on the sand and carry some out toward landing craft for evacuation. View from flight deck of a U.S. aircraft under attack by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft. Black flak clouds near a low-flying Japanese plane. Sailor ducking as he runs across the flight deck. Deck crews scrambling on the flight deck as a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" passes dangerously close and its wing falls off. Glimpse of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter on the carrier flight deck. Glimpse of the ship's antiaircraft guns. The Zero crashes in the water with a huge explosion. Scene shifts back to Al Trace and orchestra continuing their song. Closing scene exhorts audience to buy an extra war bond today.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043013