A United States Army training film about chemical warfare and the Chemical Warfare Service. United States soldiers install Livens gas projectors (delivering smoke) directed towards mock enemy in trenches. Explosions on the ground with smoke spreading in the surrounding area.
A United States Army training film about chemical warfare service. United States soldiers in World War 1 fire Stokes Mortars after assembling them. Soldiers in arms-length line pass readied mortars forward and fire them in rapid succession. Explosions in the distance with smoke spreading and overcoming the area in smokescreen. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
National Youth Administration in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service determines youths' fitness to work in the United States. Boys receive physical examination, check up of heart and check up for diseases caused by an improper diet. Doctors examine NYA women workers to diagnose tuberculosis. Boys and girls are examined by doctors at a free clinic. X-rays of NYA workers are taken. An X-ray is viewed by the doctors. An examination shows presence of tuberculosis in the boys and the girls. An NYA health personnel makes a report of physical fitness.
U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the historic Marshall Plan in the United States. The signing of the foreign assistance bill and aid to China is witnessed by Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg; American politician, Thomas Terry Connally; Representative Sol Bloom; the Speaker of the House, Joseph Martin and others. President Truman makes a short statement about the bill.
A United States Marine Corps film about option of vocations at U.S. Marine Corps. The film is titled 'Learn the Leatherneck Way'. Teachers and students in a marine training class. Students get personalized instructions by the teacher. A radio instructor trains a representative group. Students get training of automobile and aviation. They are trained about engines of airplanes. A training of construction work and communication. Telegraphy and training on a radar. Students work with cameras for still and motion picture training. Men get counseling for choosing the courses in classification interviewing room. Marines stand in a line and get payment. A marine looks at his uniform. Men play football. A marine in uniform and in civil dress.
Film highlights many different ways that American soldiers and civilians contribute to the war effort in World War 2, including on the home front in America. A woman works at the United States Army Signal Corps office during World War II. She answers the phone. A paper containing sensitive information drops from her desk. Soldiers fighting in the Pacific Theater. A Mickey Mouse watch on the wrist of a dead soldier. A woman clerical worker puts a file in a drawer. A soldier runs and throws a grenade at Japanese positions. A screw is tightened on an equipment. A man works on a blueprint. Closeup of hands of a woman typing on a typewriter. Women writing number codes in columns on paper, and stamping documents. A man welds some equipment. A forklift lifts packets and stores. Carts with cables and machines. Cargo trucks in front of a warehouse depot. Logistics loaded on a ship. Smokestacks of a factory. Spools of cable and crates on deck of cargo ship. Cargo ship supplies logistics to different units. Soldiers board a troop transport ship on the way to the war front and they wave from the deck. A landing craft on a beach. Soldiers run on the beach. A closeup view of a German wrist watch with a Nazi swastika symbol on it. Various scenes of United States soldiers firing artillery. Signal Corps women typing, working in factories, signing documents, operates switchboards, and pulls out a file from a drawer.
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