Events related to the barracks bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. A large tractor relocates a Radio-TV trailer from one place to another at the American 2nd marine base camp.
A map shows pipeline network for the transportation of oil and its by-products in the United States, largely for the war effort during World War 2. Shows the laying of the Big Inch petroleum pipelines in Arkansas, Texas, and other locations. Tractors and explosives being used to clear the ground for laying the pipelines. Oil pipeline being laid across a river bed. A welder welds the joints. Pipelines being laid in trenches. Men operate valves to turn on the flow of oil in the new Big Inch pipeline. High octane aviation gas is filled in an aircraft at an airfield. Soldiers fill gas cans all lined up in a lot. An oil tanker in the background. Troops load gasoline jerrycans on trucks. B-17, B-26, and B-24 Bomber aircraft in refueling operations on various airfields. B-17 taking off and formation of aircraft in flight. Long lines of jerry cans being filled with gasoline by personnel near a railroad track. Close up view of gasoline dispensing nozzle in top of Jerry Can and a hand opening the next jerry can in line. Jerry cans loaded into trucks, transported, and unloaded by U.S. Army soldiers. Motor oil being poured into funnels for use in vehicles. Narrator declares, "Oil for freedom. American oil. The blood of the mechanized legion!" A formation of tanks and military vehicles move along a wide field. Narrator encourages sacrifice of American people giving up home comforts of goods and fuels made from oil so that they can be directed to the war effort.
'Problems of Peace in Europe' produced in 1948, depicts reconstruction problems in aftermath of World War II and includes footage from during the war and soon after the war. Scene of desperate and hungry civilian people (possibly in Germany but could be elsewhere in Europe) scrambling over each other and trying to find food on the ground among garbage or wreckage, circa 1945 or 1946. European peoples massing to reestablish political order and seek relief in post-war Europe. Montage of images of people from all walks of life. Reminders of war showing aircrews in bombers and bombs falling. Batteries of rockets being fired. A formation of U.S. B-17s and a B-26 aircraft with D-day stripes, in flight. Allied bombing of cities with devastating effect (likely 1944-1945). Aerial view of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Aerial view of a major U.S. industrial complex, with many smoke stacks and industrial pollution. Mass of workers leaving at end of shift at a U.S. manufacturing plant or factory. Views of two different streamlined locomotives pulling passenger trains at high speed, approaching camera position. Freight trains speeding on railroads. Farmers harvesting and baling hay by machine and cultivating fields with tractor. Multiple wide views of the K-25 building of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant, in Oak Ridge Tennessee, the world's largest building in 1944 when it was built, and an instrumental part of the Manhattan Project effort to develop the atomic bomb in World War 2. Huge sprawling industrial sites in America. Map of Europe. Street scene in Germany with destroyed buildings and rubble cleaned from street, but still piled up in places. Desperate, hungry, and poverty stricken German citizens rummaging through garbage piles for anything to eat or anything of value. Two very young German boys standing together on a street, with one boy smoking a cigarette. Children scrambling over trash and rubbish heaps.
A Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle, Washington during World War 2. Exteriors of the Boeing manufacturing plant. Many different camouflaged buildings at the plant. Camouflaged roofs of the plant. Girls on the garden like terrace of the plant. Artificial trees on the roof top fashioned with camouflage materials. Young women sun bathe on the roof top and walk on paths of an area showing different camouflage methods that disguise the plant facilities from possible enemy aircraft overhead. Direction signs in the area show the intersection of "Synthetic Street" and "Burlap Boulevard".
A bakeshop is installed on U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) in Tacoma, Washington. Bakers working inside the carrier. They place food on round baking plates and put them in an oven. A group of sailors eats food.
Filipinos study the Japanese language during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines in World War 2. Title card reads “Ang pagsisimula ng bagong Filipinas sa paga-aral ng wikang Hapon” (“The start of a new Philippines through learning the Japanese language” in English). A Japanese flag is displayed on a tall flagpole. Elementary schoolchildren performing physical exercises in front of a teacher playing a small piano. Schoolchildren form a circle around the teacher while dancing and singing. Schoolchildren enter school. Schoolchildren playing in the yard. Three Filipino boys sitting. A group of Filipino children sitting. Students crowd a school corridor. Children listen attentively to a teacher. A teacher writes in Japanese on a blackboard. Sign reads “Japan Cultural Hall Entrance- 219”. Young Filipino men and women attend a class in Nihongo (Japanese language). A Nihongo teacher teaches Japanese to Filipino adult students in a Japanese cultural center in Manila.
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