A doll factory in Long Island, New York. Workers adjust the shape of dolls in a factory. A man places and adjusts eyes on a doll using a machine. A doll’s eyes moving. Rows of doll heads moving. Workers attach doll heads and bodies together. A woman tests the elasticity of doll. Dolls piled up. Women piling dolls up. A doll dressed in white baby clothes.
U.S. Army draftees head for a training in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Girls walk down a road as they carry American flags. Girls dressed in colorful dresses beat drums. The new recruits carrying banners walk on a street. The draftees being administered an oath of office as officials look on. A sign on a bus reads 'Philadelphia's 1st contingent of draftees'. The draftees aboard a bus wave.
U.S. Weasel M-29C in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A Weasel tows a 40 mm anti aircraft gun as it unloads from a landing craft at a beach. The Weasel tows the gun along the beach. Supplies loaded on to the Weasel in Leyte island. It also carries personnel. A jeep being winched from mud as a Weasel tows it.
An advertising parade for Fordson tractors in Detroit, Michigan. A tractor drawn road grader with a sign that reads 'Road leveling with Fordson tractors'. A tractor drawn earth scoop with a sign that reads 'We will demonstrate Fordson tractors'. Trucks with a sign 'Fruehauf Trailers make your truck pay'. A tractor with a sign 'For General Hauling use Fordson tractors'. Cars and automobiles move down the parade street.
First scene shows the State Capitol building (350 State St, Salt Lake City, UT 84103) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Next a sign identifies a military separation center in Fort Douglas during post-war demobilization. Soldiers in uniform are being processed for separation from the U.S. Army. A sergeant salutes an officer and receives his discharge papers. Narrator identifies Corporal Kirk being processed by a sergeant. He later salutes and receives his discharge papers. Corporal Kirk steps down the stairs from a house, arm and arm with his girlfriend. They are seen enjoying a soda together. Next, they shop together for a civilian hat for him. Then they share shopping for a complete civilian wardrobe. They share time skiing together. Glimpse of some national parks in Utah and of the great Salt Lake. View of people floating easily in the dense waters of the salt lake. Views of the Mormon Salt Lake Tabernacle (50 N W Temple St, Salt Lake City, UT 84150). The couple stroll streets of Salt Lake City. They visit the Veterans' Information Service. He sits with an advisor. View of Provo, Utah and the Geneva Steel Company there. Exterior views of the industrial steel plant. Hot coke being discharged into special rail cars. Steel plant operations with fiery molten steel being poured from Ladles. Billets of steel being formed. Open rail cars full of ore at the Columbia Iron Mine, Cedar City, Utah. A steam shovel loading ore into a truck. Coal mined and moving on conveyers. Miners leaving a mine in open box cars. Miners in rail cars entering a mine. A sign reading: "Welcome, Binghan Canyon, Home of the World's largest Open Cut Copper Mine, Drive Carefully!" Views of the open mine with numerous terraces cut into the walls. A steam shovel digging and loading copper ore into rail cars that carry it away across rail bridges. A sign for the Eitel-McCullough, Company, Inc. where radar tubes are currently being made. Several women employees in the plant.
A film about the role U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF) P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft in air strikes over Germany during World War II. P-47 aircraft in formation flight. The aircraft peel off one by one. Aircraft in a hangar. Mechanics work on the aircraft. P-47 Thunderbolts being unloaded at a port in England. Jeeps and trailers tow the aircraft to the hangar. British mechanics work on aircraft as they assemble parts. Aircraft being fueled. Propellers rotate and an aircraft taxis during a test. A pilot comes out from a building. A sign on the building reads 'Test pilots'. P-47 aircraft in flight.
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