U.S. Army infantry soldiers with guns walking toward the front in Tunisia North Africa. Soldiers walking through irregular roads and open terrain. Several soldiers walking through rough roads. Few soldiers using a field phone and other infantrymen eating food. The foot troops head towards the mountains followed by an army jeep. (World War II period).
From a Civics and Citizenship series by Ford. Focuses on Industrial Working Conditions. Several men work in Ford factory yard pull goods using hand carts. Workers in a hotel kitchen put dirty dishes in an automatic dish washer from one side while another man collects cleaned dishes from the other side. An old man and few other men wipe clean dishes and stack them. A man pouring creamed milk in an ice-cream making machine and eating ice-cream. A garment factory where workers are using a circular knife to cut fabric to desired shapes.
U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea. U.S. Coast Guard sailors on cutters in heavy seas. A sailor looks through binoculars from the observation deck. Another sailor looks through binoculars, keeps a watch, and informs the crew of a submarine sighting. The cutters attack and drop shells into the water. Massive underwater explosions. The crew mans and fires the deck gun. A pilot readies his plane. Oil from a leaking submarine floats on the water surface. Cutters at sea. A Coast Guard sailor and a SPARS (Coast Guard Women's Reserve) walk along the New York harbor. The Statue of Liberty in the background. The New York skyline as SPARS march. Voice narration in part by James Cagney and Ginger Rogers.
Domestic science research work by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Service (United States Department of Agriculture). Chief of the Bureau Dr. Hazel K Stiebeling talks about research in the field of textile and clothing. A man brings samples of knitted fabric to women working at a table. A woman lays the samples out. A technician uses a machine to test the fabric for elastic recovery, breaking strength, air permeability, moisture absorption. She tests stretch and comeback by applying tension with weights. A machine used to show how much rubbing a fabric can stand.
U.S. Air Force Communications Center. U.S. Air Force Communications Service insignia. Control panels of the teletype machines. Labels on panel read 'San Pablo', 'Lajes', 'Kindley', 'Ramey', 'Croughton', and 'Sidi Slimane'. Receivers and dials on the control panel.
Tests to determine structural integrity of aircraft composite materials by the U.S. Air Force Electromagnetic Hazards Group at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah. A model advanced development composite aircraft in vertical position. A Tesla Coil is used to create extremely high voltage arcs. The voltage arcs strike and pass through the composite aircraft.
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