Organization of the United States Army during World War 2. Process of forming a unit of Army Air Forces. Aviators during a march. Animated map shows its organization under Commanding General, Chief of Staff, 27 combat groups and 1750 planes. Planes at a base. Map shows Fighter Air Command, Bombers, Air Support and Air Service Commands. Line of new U.S. Army Air Force Airmen in civilian clothing as each of the new recruits raises their right hand to take an oath of service as they join the Army. Map shows flying training schools and technical training schools. Training imparted in 36 weeks to the aviation cadets. Cadets fly in formation. Fighter planes and bombers flying. Navigators, Gunners, Bomb crew, Tech training command, Engineers of planes trained. Fighter planes manufactured. (World War II period).
Organization of the United States Army, 'The Services of Supply'. Map showing classifications of various units. Supply of tanks to armed forces ensured by supply services. Map showing chart of procurement and transporting of raw materials to factories. Interiors of a tank manufacturing factory. Technicians and workers busy designing and mechanically aligning parts of a tank. Newly produced tank rolled out of the factory. Operations Department distributes the tanks. Soldiers step inside a Church. Women army troops of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC or WACS) being reviewed during a parade. (World War II period).
Organization of the United States Army and Services of Supply, their organizational set-up and duties. Map showing divided areas of operation under various units of Service Command. Housekeepers, house making and food for soldiers prepared by the Service Command employees. The Personal Department's activities are to recruit civilians in army. Civilians trained at Military Training Center. Civilians labor at a Steel factory. Workers, machinery and equipment, kilns and molten steel. (World War II period).
An animated map of Canada and the United States. Radio communications Tower over hilltop. Workers installing underground communications cables. Telephone communications in everyday life. A woman homemaker in a house holding a young child and talking on a corded telephone. The little girl also talks on the telephone. A business man talking on corded telephone. Men and women working in an office. Man in suit in a business office talking on a yellow corded telephone. Teletype machines of United Press International and other news agencies operating on a long table. Man looks at a screen and speaks over the phone. A cable-laying ship laying communications lines at sea. An animated map showing the undersea cable connections to various places.
A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. GB-6, a heat seeker missile, is assembled in a work laboratory. Men attach the homing device to the heat seeker unit then attach the same to the nose section of the GB-6 airframe. They test the heat seeker missile by holding a match flame in front of the same. Activating section of the heat seeker missile. A B-17 flying fortress in flight launches the GB-6 missile. The missile descends.
A film titled 'Razon' by the Strategic Services, United States. Dropping of a 1000lb 'Razon' bomb or VB3. Man attaches the bomb's Razon tail. The tail Contains a Radio receiver fed by an antenna. Power supply is a 24 volt battery. A technician with a automatic Gyro stabilizer, the primary unit. He inspects the control rudders and elevators. He attaches a 600,000 candle power flare to the tail cover. The bomb is rocked during inspection. A control stick and transmitter used to check the rudders and elevators. The completed bomb with Nose arming tail arming. Technicians wheel the bomb on a carrier. (World War II period).
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