Trainees from U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps undergo training in World War 1. A JN-4 with pilot and rear gunner aboard, takes off on a dirt field. Another JN-4 airplane in flight near the plane. They participate in mock aerial dogfights. Aircrew trainees watch from porch of a building and point skyward as a JN-4 performs aerobatics, including several loops. A captain makes notes and looks at the airplane through binoculars.
Aerial views of hangars and training fields for U.S. Army Air Service or Aviation Section of U.S. Signal Corps during World War I. DH-4 airplane in flight. Biplane lands at air field. Pilot emerges from plane after training exercise.
Experiments with chlorine gas for influenza immunizations in United States. A World War I tank sprays gas in a field. View of American soldiers during 1917 to 1918 period of World War I, in a trench, wearing gas masks, and firing rifles at enemy positions. Post war tests on use of Chlorine gas to control the flu (emerging from 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic), inspired by low rate of influenza among United States soldiers exposed to chlorine gas during the war. Man enters a chlorine chamber at the Chemical Warfare Service. A chart on the wall showing results on symptoms after exposure in chlorine chamber. A woman in 1920s hat carrying a tissue is treated with chlorine gas. A testing apparatus on a table. Group of patients sit together in a chlorine chamber being exposed to the chlorine gas. A business man in a suit receives a portable chlorine gas treatment in his office as he is too busy to visit the chlorine chamber.
Men discuss about the dusting of poison from an airplane to eliminate Boll Weevils and other insect pests in United States. A man asks another person whether he is using the cart machines to dust his field. The person replies that airplanes can also be used. Airplanes on ground. The United States flag. A man discusses with the pilot. Other men attach the machine spraying poison to the plane. The man says that the commercial companies provide the planes on contract for this purpose.
Dramatization of the Nazi concept of American women as decadent playgirls unfit for working. Newspapers headline about end of the World War II. A man comes downstairs. He comes near a man in prison. The man in prison writes a book on the participation of the American women in the war. Men discuss among themselves. Photographs framed on the wall. They discuss a map and about the army of the United States. A man says that the American women army has done a lot for the victory of the United States. The other man states that there was no Women Army of America. He discusses with him the records and statistics of the expenditure of the American women. He says that they were all playgirls and not interested in working.
Opening scene shows German leader Adolf Hitler in a planning session looking at a map during World War II. Brief dramatization depicts a Nazi German official learning the role of women in war materiel production in the United States. Scenes of the United States Capitol building, factories, and shipyards in America. A tractor clearing a road. War production workers streaming through the gates of the Alabama Dry dock and Shipbuilding Company. American war factories being quickly built and staffed. Wide views of many war workers arriving for work. War ships being launched. A Nazi German official reading a report. A drinks menu from “Blue Moon Café”. Women at work in factories. Women reading sign “GIRLS WANTED”. The women war workers using various machines and tools for war production. African American women working in an armament factory. Women in a munitions factory. They use tiny equipment with skill that is needed for war purposes and sew the plane wings fabric and parachute fabric.
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