A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States during World War II. WAACs parade at the end of their training period. Officers review them. Recruits stand at attention and are ready to serve the army. An officer seated at his desk in an office. A woman stands nearby. A woman driving a jeep. Another woman repairs a jeep. The WAACs prepare food for soldiers. Animated map locates work areas of the women. A train passing on a railway track. Newly assigned WAACs arrive at their quarters. Ships in a harbor. The first WAAC detachment in North Africa. Clerical, technical and other types of work done by the WAACs. They work with soldiers. They draw military maps and charts. Group of African American women soldiers relieve African American male soldiers working as switchboard operators. Women are shown serving as dispatchers, as typists, developing film in photographic laboratories, serving as pigeoneers who handle carrier pigeons used in war communications, serving as radio operators, issuing clothing in quartermaster houses, working in post offices, fingerprinting, and collecting rations at a commissary. Female African American soldiers and and female white soldiers work at a motor pool. The WAACs marching.
U.S. Navy's pogo-stick airplane in California, United States. United States Navy Convair XFY Pogo airplane parked at an air base. A pilot and a co-pilot in the cockpit. The boarding staircase is removed. The airplane takes off vertically. The airplane in flight. Landing of the Pogo aircraft.
Members of the American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation at the White House Rose Garden in Washington DC. The members meet U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower. They present gifts to the President. He accepts the gifts. The President waving at them.
U.S. Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines aboard a landing craft and ships underway at sea. They fire guns. Smoke due to firing and bombardment. Smoke arises as a landing craft explodes. Mountains in the extreme foreground.
U.S. Marines in the Philippines during World War II. Marines aboard a ship underway at sea. They wear life jackets. A wounded marine on litters lying aboard the landing craft. Medics treating the wounded. A marine watching the enemy actions through binoculars.
The first edition of Stars and Stripes newspaper printed in Paris, France during World War II. The first edition of the paper is distributed to U.S. soldiers and Women's Army Corps (WAC). A 'press' jeep distributing the papers. Newspapers loaded in jeeps. The soldiers and WACs reading the papers. Buildings along the sides of a street. Soldiers aboard a jeep giving papers to WACs.
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