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Views of women WAC personnel, and quiz question on Greek goddess Pallas Athene (WW2)

General Mark Wayne Clark greets and pins an award on a woman from the Women's Army Corps or "WAC" during World War II. Ground Infantry quiz question on Greek goddess Pallas Athene, seen on the WAC insignia. Views of WAC women in various jobs and roles during the war, including marching, mail sorting, and radio broadcasting.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025694
Ground Infantry quiz question in World War 2 on boxers (Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey), tanks, and rockets.

Boxers Joe Louis and Arturo Godoy compete in a boxing match on June 20, 1940 in Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York City. Louis knocks out Godoy in 8th round. Ground Infantry (GI) quiz ask a question about boxers and the answer is Coast Guard Commander Jack Dempsey. Views of Jack Dempsey while in the Coast Guard, demonstrating physical prowess. Multiple scenes from boxing match of Jack Dempsey versus Luis Ángel Firpo on September 14, 1923, at the Polo Grounds in New York City. Multiple knock-downs of the boxers are shown, including one where Firpo knocks Dempsey completely out of the ring. GI quiz question on tanks. Picture of Sherman tanks knocking down trees. Picture of Leonardo Da Vinci. View of the Mona Lisa painting. Animations of various concept designs credited to Da Vinci including tanks, aircraft, parachutes, and submarines. GI quiz question on rockets. View of battery of rockets being fired from ground positions in World War 2. Aerial view of U.S. Army aircraft firing rockets at target. View of German V-1 flying bomb (early cruise missile) in flight toward a target. Animation showing future use of a rocket launched across the globe and reaching New York City (with artist's view of Statue of Liberty in foreground) as narrator says, "Scientists are convinced that the next war, if there is one, will be fought with giant remote-controlled atomic rocket bombs, capable of traveling thousands of miles in a few minutes, to completely destroy any target, anywhere, anytime."

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025695
GI quiz question on what uses water more, a bath of shower or an ordinary one.

Woman in a bathroom. Woman draws water to take a bath. In a separate scene a different woman is seen adjusting controls of a shower and taking a shower. GI quiz question on what consumes water more, a bath or a shower. Narrator says it is the bath.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1945
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025698
Hollywood film stars try summer ski in California

Hollywood film stars try summer ski. Universal stars and starlets ski on grassy slopes.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1939, July 19
Duration: 1 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025738
30000 members of the Grouch Club assemble at a convention in California

30000 members of the Grouch Club assemble at a convention in the Hollywood Bowl. Banners read 'Gweetings Gwouches!' And 'West Adams Grouch Club'.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1939, July 19
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025739
Construction of Liberty ships at shipyards in California during World War II

View of cranes and workshops at at shipyards in California during World War 2. Construction of Liberty ship at the shipyard Workers arriving for their shift at the shipyard. Hammer Crane picks up a shell plate. Shell plates are sent to the planers. Flame planers are used to plane shell plates. Machine makes rivet holes in the shell plate.Edges are bevel-burned with an acetylene torch. Holes being drilled with machine. (Note: May include scenes from Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California as well as Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco.)

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1942
Duration: 4 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025784
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