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A new discovery called 'Quicold' is used to freeze water and other liquids in New York.
Ice making chemicals tested in New York. Scientists make a new discovery - certain powders that absorb heat so quickly when mixed that they freeze water or other liquids instantly. This combination is called 'Quicold'. Two men at a table in a laboratory. One scientist mixes two powders and a liquid in a martini shaker to create the 'Quicold'. He then screws on the lid and gives it to the second man who mixes the three together. Fog on the shaker surface. A thermometer is used to check the temperature of the prepared fluid. The temperature drops rapidly. The man inserts three test tubes filled with water into a beaker full of the prepared fluid. On removal, the water in the test tubes is frozen. The man removes the ice and breaks it into pieces.
U.S. Marines land and advance near Mount Suribachi amidst enemy fire during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
'Action on Iwo Jima' depicts the Battle of Iwo Jima or Operation Detachment during World War II. United States Marines Divisions eliminate positions on Mount Suribachi. Mount Siribachi on the island coast. Additional waves of Marines arrive at the island. 3rd Marine Division arrives to enforce the 4th and 5th Divisions. Landing crafts and ships approach the shore amidst enemy fire and explosions. Crouched Marines in a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). Marines advance inland amidst mortar fire and machine gun fire by the Japanese. They advance across mine fields on the beach. Soldiers unload supplies from landing crafts and ships. They pull a tank across the beach. A view of the battle from inside a tank. Marines battle around Mount Suribachi. Advanced units scale cliffs and take cover against grenades and demolition charges from the Japanese in caves and pill boxes. The Marines use flames to flush Japanese soldiers out of dug in positions. A Japanese soldier takes cover from machine gun fire. Guns fired and explosions on the island.
A NAM meeting and U.S. naval and air forces advance in preparation for World War II.
The United States on alert in the beginning of World War II. A National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) meeting. The NAM President talks addresses the group. He talks about the national defense requirements and ways to meet the mass production. The Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine plant in Hartford, Connecticut. Workers in line arrive for work. Men work to manufacture engines for American bomber and fighter aircraft. Manufactured engine parts stacked in stands. U.S. Navy Curtiss-Wright CW-22Bs in flight. A naval task force underway at sea below. The ships advance amidst explosions.
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.
U.S. infantrymen wade across a stream and run across a field between tanks in Nancy, France during World War II.
U.S. Army 35th Division, 320th Infantry Regiment in Nancy, France during World War II. Smoke rises in the background as American infantry soldiers run across a field between the tanks. The infantrymen wade through water up to their shoulders, holding their rifles above their heads to keep them dry. One soldier loses his footing while wading and his rifle goes underwater; he then struggles in deep water and returns back to shore. Few soldiers advance across a field as a tank protects them with machine gun fire.
German soldiers are checked after they surrender and U.S. soldiers advance in Wurdinghausen, Germany.
U.S. 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment attacks Wurdinghausen, Germany during World War II. Soldiers wave at German soldiers to come across a field and surrender. German soldiers walk across the field with their hand raised. Prisoners are searched. The soldiers get into a house. Soldiers advance past a German 20mm gun.
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