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London Fire Raid response to German incendiary blitzkrieg attacks of December 29-30, 1940 (WW2)
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).
Construction of trailer houses for the defense people in the United States (WW2)
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. Men construct house trailers for the American defense people. The top of a trailer house is lowered. A woman with a child smiles. A man picks up the child. Trailer houses and recreational vehicles (RV) in the background. A woman walks with a baby carriage or pram. Trailer houses in a row. The side of a house reads 'US TVA'.
A prefabricated house is assembled and construction of sewage disposal plant, telephone lines and houses in the U.S. (WW2)
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. A truck carries a part of a prefabricated portable house. The prefabricated house part is attached to other part stationed on a grassland. Women sit at the entrance of the house. A man uses a dumpy level to observe the contours of the land. Workers work at the community sewage disposal plant. A cemented pipe is lowered. Linemen at a tower erect telephone lines. A truck passes under the tower. Workers mix cement. Workers keep a grilled structure onto the truck. The truck carries the grilled structure. A truck drops lumber on the ground. Workers in a row pick the grilled structure. They erect the walls of the houses. A worker carries a wooden slab. He walks on the roof of the house with the wooden slab. Other workers work on the house roof. Stucco siding applied to homes.
Segment of World War 2 film promoting sales of War Bonds and stamps to aid the war effort and stimulate postwar recovery
Film opens with singer on stage singing that he is a "double-duty dollar." He is backed by showgirls costumed as silver dollars. He explains that American dollars are now purchasing guns ammunition, planes, and tanks, to win the war. He alludes to how dollars will be used to fund the peace, after the war. An illustration shows schools, homes, and similar postwar investments in the country's infrastructure. Another shows futuristic cars, helicopter, and television sets. Scenes of pre-war highways filled with moving automobiles. Men playing golf. Gun club members in an outdoor shooting competition. A factory parking lot filled with automobiles and workers leaving the building at end of shift. (Message is that dollars no longer spent on war will revive private sector industry, again.) Film ends with appeal to "Buy an EXTRA War Bond TODAY!"
Women training and working at war materiel factories in the United States (WW2)
Soldiers on tanks fire artillery mounted on the tanks. Aircraft in flight. Views of explosions in the battlefield. Soldiers walk in lines. The soldiers in front of tents. Anti-aircraft artillery crew fire at enemy aircraft during World War II. New recruits in civilian clothes arriving for training in military armed forces in the United States. Men are trained for the army. Workers in an American factory make war equipment and war materiel. Men work on airplanes. They carry tire tubes for aircraft. People move inside an aircraft production building. Women stand in a line. Women workers report at a war production plant. A woman is being interviewed. Female war materiel workers are seated on benches and an official briefs them about the job. The women receive uniforms including a one-piece coverall uniform, wiping cloth, a cap, hairnet, and safety glasses or safety goggles, and a towel. A woman takes out uniforms from shelves in a closet. A woman wears a pair of glasses and a cap. Women move inside the production factory on the factory floor. A female worker teaches another woman how to operate a lathe. A liquid comes out of a pipe of the machine in operation. Two women work on the lathe. A truck in front of the receiving department. Women at a table make a note of the incoming material. Women work with hammer on a sheet. Women check for flaws in the raw materials. American flag seen on the wall above the women workers.
Women work on equipment in a laboratory and on various machines in the United States (WW2)
Female war production workers working in a laboratory during World War II. The women work with chemicals and on specific equipment. A woman takes out a material from a flask containing a liquid with the tongs. Bottles of chemicals kept on a table in the laboratory. Women weigh chemicals on a weighing machine. Narrator mentions their work making turbo superchargers and other parts for military aircraft. Women war production workers operate milling machines, lathes, grinders, tapping machines, punch presses, Natco multiple drill press, hydraulic presses for war materiel manufacture.
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