A public service announcement or PSA after World War 2, targeted at U.S. military veterans. Narrator communicates how to correspond properly by mail when contacting the Veterans Administration. He encourages veterans to visit their local Veterans Administration office to get answers to questions when possible, rather than writing to the United States Veterans Administration. View of the central office of the Veterans Administration with a number of bags of postal mails and letters piled up. Stacks of letters received from veterans, at a rate of four million letters each month. Mails being sorted out by the staff. A veteran visits a local Veterans Administration office. Animation shows issues that the Veterans Administration cannot assist with, including housing, employment or jobs, and surplus property, and encourages that they contact other government agencies for help on those issues. They summarize problems of veterans that the Veterans Administration does look into like housing, jobs and employment, surplus military property, education, insurance and medical care. They encourage veterans to visit local Veterans Administration offices for answers and help.
British delegates meet U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull in the United States during World War II. Lord Halifax and British Foreign Secretary enter a building . British leaders in meeting with Cordell Hull as they discuss the problems of the Allied nations during the war. They also discuss close collaboration with Russia. Anthony Eden and Cordell Hull shake hands.
Ship building in the United States. A shipyard worker drills holes in steel plate of a ship. Another worker welds a section of steel. People gathered in large number for the launching of two ships. Charles M. Schwab of the shipping board addresses gathering of shipyard workers and guests, at the launching of a ship. (Steel titan Schwab was then the Director General of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, a Congressionally appointed board over all shipbuilding in the United States). American flags in the background. Ship is launched and moves slowly down the ways.
Ship building in the United States. A ship yard in the United States. A ship being launched as it takes to water. Shipyard across a river with numerous cranes at the yard. Workers at the yard as they climb up a scaffolding stairs into a partially built ship.
An art class in the United States. Girls at desks sketch and paint. A student paints fashion designs during an art class at a school in the United States.
A training film about fighting against the enemy during World Wear II, focusing on themes of nerves, fear, and combat stress among soldiers. The enactment shows American soldiers as they fire at enemy during a battle. The U.S. tank fires. The tank catches fire and soldiers fall off the tank and die. The U.S. tank on fire after being hit by the enemy. Jim, an American soldier, fires rifle. He observes German soldiers bunching up and then being hit by machine gun fire. A fellow soldier near him is struck and dies.
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