Steel production in the United States during World War II. Steel billet enters continuous rod mill. Some workers work on machines. Steel billet rolls into concrete reinforcing bars.
Manufacture of Steel at the time of World War II in the United States. Steel sheeting is run through machine rollers and cleaned specifically for use in tin plate. The sheeting is then stiffened and sheared into convenient lengths. Numerous women war workers at individual work stations of the factory, examine and stack the steel sheets. The women all wear the same type dresses and large protective gloves.
Steel production for war materiel in the United States during World War II. Worker in factory with open tilting windows. Coil of steel rod suspended by crane. Worker feeds end of steel rod into reducing die, through which it is pulled by machine power. Worker uses gauge to check diameter of emerging steel. Steel being pulled and wound as wire in spools. Barbed wire being made by a machine that twists pointed lengths of steel wire on another wire passing through the machine.
Spanish Blue Division soldiers in Spain during World War II. They served as volunteers in the German Army on the eastern front. Spanish officers salute German soldiers. A Spanish officer receives flowers from a woman. The Blue Division soldiers look out of the windows of railroad cars. Augustin Muñoz Grandes, Commander of the Blue Division, greets the soldiers. Some soldiers say good bye to their families. The train pulls out of the station. The soldiers lean out of train. They are handed snacks, drinks, and other refreshments by the people gathered. Dignitaries present deliver speeches and Nazi salutes.
Blitzkrieg attack on London by Germany during World War II beginning in September 1940. Scenes of London city. Soldiers help civilians to move to safety underground in air raid shelters. A building is evacuated. A man talks over a telephone reporting incoming German aircraft. Officers watch through binoculars. German planes over the city. British pilots in aircraft defend the city. British citizens gathered sleeping and waiting on platform at the underground Picadilly Circus tube station. A train arrives at station. German aircraft drop bombs. Aerial bombs away views of bombs falling from German bombers, and views of German pilots in cockpit, and from point of view of German pilots. View of damaged buildings in London, rubble, and devastation. Men around the remains of the damaged buildings. Exterior and interior views of damaged and destroyed shops, homes, hospitals, and churches. A view of Big Ben in the distance and rubble from bombing in the foreground. British people climbing on piles of rubble and beginning to clear the damage. A man carrying an unexploded bomb or delayed action bomb on his shoulder to remove it from an area. A man drives a car. British people in a market using ration stamps for food. British people work in a factory continuing the war manufacturing effort. People inside underground rail system at Picadilly Circus station, serving as an air raid shelter. A man plays a harmonica to entertain civilians in the crowded air raid shelter. Doctors operate on a casualty. Soldiers rescue people from ruins of blitz damaged buildings. Fire fighters spray fire hoses on a building. Men take a break from clearing rubble and drink beer from glasses at the base of a ladder. A girl sits outside a damaged house and pets a cat. Civilians gather as King George VI and the Queen of England visit citizens amidst the rubble.
London is hit by incendiary bombs for the first time during the London Blitz. Nazi incendiary bombs fall, and fires break out at night. View from Saint Paul's Cathedral (St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, United Kingdom) of buildings set on fire by incendiaries. Firemen spray water on the buildings. A central switch board handles fire reports and assigns equipment to various sectors. A woman talks over a telephone. A large map is displayed in front of the room. A woman moves pegs on a pegboard, assigning firefighting equipment to parts of London. The pegboard reads 'no. of appliances available'. (World War II period).
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