United States UH-1E helicopter shot down by NVA (North Vietnamese Army) during Tet Offensive in Hue. Dirt road in the foreground. Trees in the background. U.S. Marines of 'H' Co., 2nd Battalion. 5th Marines, 1st Division., march along dirt road. Marines reach a house in area. Marines with M-16 rifles enter the house. Several marines carrying M-72 66mm LAWs (Light Anti Tank Weapon) begin to enter the door of Viet Cong house. Marines walk on grassy area toward Viet religious shrine. Marines fire M-16 rifles from behind brick wall during battle. Marines move through wooded area. Vietnamese children in jungle. Marines place bandage on wounded Marine sitting against wall. (Vietnam War period).
Factory workers at A-20 (Fighter-Bomber Army plane) engine line in Douglas Aircraft Factory, Long Beach, California during World War 2, supplying aircraft for the war effort. Women factory workers make adjustments to engines in a Pratt-Whitney engine line. Close up of a woman worker at work on an aircraft engine. African American workmen stack plexiglass parts for bomber aircraft gun or bombing sights. Ex-sailor works on wing of aircraft. Shirtless worker removes an aircraft tire from a rack of tires and rolls it by hand. Propaganda cartoon poster above the rack shows a frightened Hideki Tojo up a tree and reads 'Tokio Kid Say' and shows an attack dog below, keeping him in the tree, and wearing a collar that says, "Conservation," encouraging workers to conserve and use factory resources wisely for the war effort in order to beat the Japanese.
Construction of Liberty Ships during World War 2. Sign over entrance to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, one of the U.S. shipyards where Liberty ships were being constructed. Change of shift in Kaiser Company shows huge numbers of workers leaving at end of their shift . Words on large building read 'Machine Shop'. Traffic passes on road in yard. Views from high vantage point of buildings and ships under construction. Crane and moving parts at dusk. Welders at work on several ships. Cranes against evening sky.
Union members picketing alongside Goodyear Plant in Akron, Ohio, during strike in February, 1936. Sign at entrance of building reads 'Join Now'. Traffic along road. The U.S. flag on top of building. Men walk alongside the building. A tent of sorts is erected on the sidewalk where pickets can get hot drink. Police officers are seen. But the activity is peaceful.
Clock on stand shows time. Map of Europe with flames of war sweeping over it. Two men seated in office. A family sits at dinner table in home. Two men in a news broadcast studio. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress during World War II. Clock pendulum swings. Views of American heavy industry: steel making and power lines crossing the country. General Electric factories, all over the United States and thousands of company employees. Close view of GE worker standing. View of machinist's hands, as he stops a lathe and uses micrometer to check dimension of piece being turned. Workers punching a time clock. View of night shift at work.in a defense plant.
Equipment like transformers, switchboards, switch gear, motors and turbines are manufactured in General Electric industries of U.S. War production workers work with equipment in a General Electric Plant. Industrial equipment being operated in factories, producing goods needed for the war effort in World War 2. Stacks emit smoke. A General Electric worker returns home after work. General Electric factory seen in the background as the worker climbs a hill. He looks out over the General Electric factory area. Close up view of the American worker standing with his lunchbox under his arm, as narrator describes his important contribution to the war materiel production effort, with the man's work clothing being akin to a military uniform.
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