Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. Ambulance aircraft offer fastest means of transporting the injured. A United States Army Air Service Cox-Klemin XA-1 ambulance aircraft taxis. Men put a stretcher patient into a U.S. Navy model of a DH-4 Amb-1 ambulance airplane. The ambulance aircraft takes off and in flight.
Early model aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. The Department of Agriculture and U.S. Army Air Service kill insect pests. A DH-4D aircraft crop dusts a field. The Department of Agriculture fights boll weevil with the help of U.S. Army Air Service. A DH-D Curtiss aircraft with a Wright engine crop dusts a field.
Air Sea rescue operations in United States. United States Air Force P-47 air sea rescue plane in flight. A parachute falls. Interiors of the control room as men speak on wireless and plot on a map. United States P-47 rescue plane. Pilot in the cockpit of the plane. A rescue motor torpedo boat underway. A pilot on a one man raft at sea. P-47s of rescue team in flight. Aircraft dives down on life raft. Airman on the raft waves to the pilot. Control room of air sea rescue. Motor Torpedo boat being rescued. P-47 aircraft directs a motor torpedo boat to downed airman.
Air sea rescue operations in the United States. A United States B-24 bomber with a feathered engine. The pilot of the B-24 aircraft talks to operations of Air Sea Rescue. Men speak over a wireless in the control room. The pilot of a P-47 aircraft while it is in flight. The B-24 and the P-47 aircraft in flight. Feathered propeller of an aircraft. The B-24 aircraft lands. A motor torpedo boat underway. A United States B-17 bomber drops a life boat. A boat descends by a parachute. A B-24 bomber with a feathered propeller.
United States Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson seated at a desk in his office. He addresses the nation and speaks on the value of war material. Patterson talks about production of ammunitions and supplies in the industries of the war department. “The demands of war is insatiable. We will never be satisfied as long as the war lasts,” Patterson said. Railroad train in snow. POV train engineer looking out snowy landscape. Production of war materiel in the United States during World War II. Steel mill operations with ingots being formed from hot metal. A sheet of hot metal emerges from a machine. Women war production workers sort and inspect aluminum sheet metal. Ships carrying supplies sailing an ocean. Crowds of factory workers walking outside war production factory in the United States. Trucks driving on mountain road.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines in the period between World War 1 and World War 2. Newly launched German, Italian and Japanese ships underway at sea. Ships including the German liner Bremen and the Italian Ocean liner Rex are seen underway. People gather at a dock. American ship underway in heavy seas with waves crashing over. Point of view shot at heavy seas from deck of a ship. A man works in a ship radio room. A man watches through binoculars and uses a sextant. Sailors row a small boat with oars in heavy seas. A sailor decorated by officials of the Merchant Marines. Dock workers and ship construction workers at a shipbuilding yard in the United States working on building new ships. American liners are seen undereway including: SS Washington off shore of New York City skyline and skyscrapers, SS Manhattan also off shore of Manhattan, the SS Lurline, the SS Mariposa, and the SS President Hoover (named for Herbert Hoover) underway at sea. The U.S. flag fluttering from a flag pole. The text of the declaration of policy under the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is shown.
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