Salvage and reclamation activities in the European Theater during World War II. M1 helmets of U.S. soldiers and medics piled up on the ground. A man cleaning the helmet shells and spray painting over insignias on the helmet shells, including a 29th Infantry Division helmet, a Medic helmet, and an MP (Military Police) helmet. Narrator indicates that totally worn out helmets are sold to factories as scrap.
The Selective Service building in Washington DC, United States in World War 2. Exterior of the building. The U.S. flag flying atop the building. Officers entering and coming out of the building. A plaque on a wall of the building reads 'National Headquarters Selective Service System'.
Entrance to an American Theatre Wing Stage Door Canteen in Washington DC during World War 2. Army personnel dancing with women war workers. A soldier meeting a woman named Phyllis Hood. The man and the woman seated at a desk and talking. They dance. Men seated at tables in a canteen. They are being served food. Cars passing on streets of Washington. Several new, temporary office buildings along the side of the street, built for wartime demand. A filled, busy Washington DC restaurant. A hotel lobby where the hotel desk turns away a client, pointing at some people seated in lobby chairs asleep who cold not get a room. U.S. Capitol building in the background in one shot, and the Executive Office Building in another shot, with a newer temporary building in the foreground.
The office of U.S. Army Chief of Staff in the United States. A sign on a doorway reads 'Chief of Staff'. Pictures of officers on a wall. An officer coming out of the building. Charts depict composition of the office: division of the office into ground force organization, air force organization and services of supply organization. Other charts depict the division of the office into Deputy Chief of Staff 1, 2 and 3. Another chart comprises of the chaplain organization and the medical organization.
U.S. Army officers seated in an office in Washington DC. The army officers in a conference. Brigadier General C.D. Young, Chief of Service of Supply Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, Brigadier General W. A. Styler and Brigadier General L. Lutes seated at a desk. They discuss amongst themselves. A wall map in the background. Lt. General Lesley James McNair, Lt. Colonel F. L. Parks and Brigadier General Mark Wayne Clark seated at the desk. Lt. General McNair signing papers.
A press conference in an army office in Washington DC. U.S. Army officers seated in the office along with reporters. Brigadier General A. D. Surles and Lieutenant Colonel Stanley J. Grogan seated at a desk. Men and women of the press confer with them. They note down the information given by the officers in their note books.
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