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Experiments are undertaken by scientists and doctors during the development of nutritious food for soldiers in the U.S.

Scientists determine nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2. Conscripts receive medical examination by an army doctor before going into the U.S. Army. The new recruits holding documents waiting in a queue for their turn to be weighed on a scale. An officer seated at a table. Two military draftees talking. Members of a U.S. Army Combat Service Support Branch, the Quartermaster Corps, cutting meat for preparation. A table set for soldiers with tea cups arranged and fruits in the center. The soldiers seated at tables and having food. Quartermaster Corps serving the soldiers. Scientists in a laboratory studying food that will impart energy, strength, and improved performance to the soldiers. A soldier seated at a table and a member of the Quartermaster Corps measuring out rice into a bowl that a soldier would have to have to provide the same nutrition as in his military rations. Dr. Ansel Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota, seated at a table and vitamins kept on the table for the soldiers. Narrator mentions that the German military supposedly has a super man vitamin pill. Doctor dispenses vitamins from a box. Doctor measures the strength of a soldier who has been taking vitamins. Doctor gives a soldier more vitamin pills. Two seated soldiers open tins of vitamin pills. Soldiers sleeping in a room maintained at a certain high temperature during an experiment to determine what foods are best for various climates. Soldiers carrying rifles walking on a treadmill. The amount of perspiration is measured.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066585
Soybean biscuits are made and K ration packets are put together in a factory in the United States for U.S. Army soldiers.

Nutritious packaged food is formulated and packaged for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2, in the United States. Workers at soybean processing plants. View of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, a chemist and soy expert, working in a laboratory (Dr. Julian was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry). Two workers carry soy flour in sacks and put the flour into processors. Wheat flour and eggs are added. Dough is kneaded in the processor. Soybean biscuits coming out of the processor in strips. Women workers at a chewing gum factory, modified for making K ration packets, stand on the assembly line and pack the K-rations. An army officer beside the workers. The workers, at an assembly line, put a tin of meat, soy biscuits, a concentrated chocolate or a fruit bar, lemon powder, cigarettes and chewing gum in individual containers. The containers are made water and air tight, and a scientist tests some of the kits for quality of packaging. U.S. Army soldiers move in a column on an airfield and get into an aircraft. Views of U.S. Army soldiers in different settings, preparing and eating food: A group of soldiers under a tarp in the jungle preparing food. Two soldiers seated inside a snow igloo eating food. A group of soldiers seated on a tank in the desert, eating food. Group of soldiers having food seated at tables in a dining hall or mess area.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066588
U.S. aircraft bomb Japanese positions and ships in the Pacific Theater during World War II.

U.S. Army Air Forces aircraft bombard Japanese positions in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A map of the area. U.S. Army Air Force B-24 Liberator aircraft in flight over islands in the Pacific. The aircraft fly in formation. A Japanese cruiser underway at sea. The cruiser being bombed. A gun sight aiming point view of the cruiser being strafed. Explosions occur at sea. Enemy barges being attacked by the aircraft. Smoke rises at sea. U.S. aircraft bomb Munda Airfield. Smoke rises from the shoreline of the Munda island. Bombs being released over Bismarck Islands and the Solomon Islands. Bombs impact and columns of smoke rise.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066601
German soldiers being taken as prisoners of war by U.S. Army 12th Armored Division in Dillingen, Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army 12th Armored Division on move in Dillingen, Germany during World War II. U.S. armored vehicles move past a sign that reads 'Dillingen'. Vehicles of the 12th Armored Division in the town. German prisoners march down a road under American guards. U.S. infantrymen break down a door and enter a building. Two German soldiers run down a road. An American soldier climbs over a fence into a yard in search of a sniper. German prisoners march down a street. A one legged Nazi officer prisoner hobbles on crutches. American soldiers and vehicles move through streets.

Date: 1945, April 23
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066609
U.S. Army 12th Armored Division soldiers cross the Danube River bridge at Dillingen, Germany during World War II.

U.S. Army 12th Armored Division on the move in Dillingen, Germany during World War II. U.S. soldiers roll 500 pound bombs over the intact Danube River bridge at Dillingen in Bavaria Germany. U.S. medium tanks with soldiers loaded onto it as they cross the bridge at Dillingen.

Date: 1945, April 22
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066610
Men assemble and use a remover, tire, heavy duty in the United States.

The use and importance of a tire remover. Huge piles of worn out tires. Tires of U.S. Army vehicles as they roll. A flat tire. Men work on a tire with hammers and tire irons. Men assemble the U.S. Army tool Set number 8, namely: a heavy duty tire remover. The tire remover being placed on a tire as men work on it. A tire being removed.

Date: 1947
Duration: 3 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066620