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Workers engaged in General Electric plant, United States (WW2)

Clock on stand shows time. Map of Europe with flames of war sweeping over it. Two men seated in office. A family sits at dinner table in home. Two men in a news broadcast studio. President Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses Congress during World War II. Clock pendulum swings. Views of American heavy industry: steel making and power lines crossing the country. General Electric factories, all over the United States and thousands of company employees. Close view of GE worker standing. View of machinist's hands, as he stops a lathe and uses micrometer to check dimension of piece being turned. Workers punching a time clock. View of night shift at work.in a defense plant.

Date: 1941
Duration: 2 min 40 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052441
New workers add to payroll and war production at General Electric Plant in the United States during World War 2.

Interiors of a house. A worker wakes up from bed, turns off his alarm clock, next to which his pipe sits. He washes, shaves, brushes his teeth and prepares eggs, over-easy, in frying pan and toast for breakfast. He takes his lunch box and heads off to work.Traffic along road. Cars pass on road. Workers arrive for work production work at General Electric factory. Guard checks workers entering for wartime production. Workers work with various machines. Metal-milling machines, boring mills, foundries, presses and forges in operation. Designers and engineers work. Scientists in laboratory with beakers and test tubes. Organizers and managers in discussion. Men and women at desks in office. Official adds worker to payroll in employment office. New workers examined and receiving orientation lectures. They are trained to operate complex machines. Construction machines in operation. Large crane operates. Workers build a brick wall. Door signs read 'Restricted Area - Aeronautics and Engineering Department'. Aircraft industry shows men working with various aviation instruments. Man wears electric warming flight suit with General Electric logo on its back. Aerial view of numerous Douglas B-18 Bolo aircraft in flight. Interior cockpit view of a pilot flying a B-18 aircraft. Men work with and assemble radio equipment. Workers at radio assembly line. Men work on artillery and ordnance production. They test a line of howitzer barrels, aiding in war material manufacturing effort.

Date: 1941
Duration: 5 min 18 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052442
Workers in UK and U.S. producing war material and weapons during battle against Germans in Egypt, North Africa (WW2)

Preparation undertaken in factories of Britain for producing war material and weapons for British Infantry fighting against German forces in El Alamein, Egypt during World War II. Women and men war production workers busy in a factory. Workers at aircraft assembly lines operate various machines. Scene changes to the United States, where war production workers are seen assembling M4 Sherman tanks in a U.S. factory. Production of M4 tanks for Allies. Completed tanks at the end of an assembly line, and elevated wide views of factory floor producing tanks.

Date: 1942
Duration: 1 min 36 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052592
Axis forces withdrawing in El Alamein and British troops advance through Libya and Syria in World War 2.

Second battle of El Alamein in Egypt between Allied Forces and German Forces in October, 1942. Tanks advance and Axis powers in full retreat. British advance with tanks. British flag is raised. British advance on road and on mountain terrains. Water and other supplies brought by Navy. British troops advance through Matruh and Sidi Banari in Egypt; Tobruk and Bengasi in Libya; and Homs in Syria. Harbors littered by wrecked and abandoned German equipment. Fuel barrels unloaded from ship. British soldiers in combat with enemy in outskirts of Tripoli. Wounded soldier taken on litter. Artillery is fired. Smoke arises from explosions.

Date: 1942, October
Duration: 4 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052603
U.S. submarine picks up Japanese survivors from boat disabled by its gunfire in World War 2.

A Japanese crewman from nearby boat,disabled by gunfire from a U.S. submarine, is helped aboard the submarine by its crew. They help remove his life vest and most of his wet clothing. One poses with him for the camera. A crewman works with line and flotation gear on the submarine deck.Two more Japanese are seen in the water holding on to floating debris. These men are also helped aboard the submarine. View of the Japanese boat close to the submarine. Smoke is rising from its engine compartment.The superstructure is wrecked. Sailors on the submarine prepare to fire at the boat to sink it.They load shells and fire at the floating hulk.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675052640
United States soldiers in combat with Japanese forces in towns and in city of Manila, Philippines (WW2)

Street fighting in Asia during World War II (Pacific Theater). Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter takes off from field. P-47 fighters dive bombing Japanese-occupied towns as American infantry squads advance in battle-scarred town. The U.S. soldiers employ rifles, bazookas, rifle grenades, hand grenades, and flame throwers (which destroy wood and other lightly constructed buildings). Americans advance under fire from Japanese snipers and return fire. United States soldiers use flamethrowers on wooden houses. A dead Japanese sniper in rubble of building. A Japanese soldier running to surrender, carrying a white flag. A staged exercise in a Burmese village, to demonstrate proper techniques for combating occupying enemy in such a setting. Huts and building in village. Soldier signals other soldiers. Two persons acting as Japanese soldiers inside a building. American soldiers wade through water. Acting Japanese soldier walks to the river side with an empty bucket. American soldier attacks the acting Japanese soldier from behind. Views of various Japanese cities, like Tokyo, Yokohama and Nagoya. Traffic with pedestrians on road. Smoke arising from U.S. artillery shelling of Manila. U.S. Army artillery battery firing field pieces at targets in Manila. Smoke in the streets during the 1945 Battle of Manila. U.S. Soldiers advance through burning Filipino buildings. They advance in groups. U.S. soldiers firing in streets and helping wounded soldier to cross street in front of the import-export business Levy & Blum Inc (345 Echague, Quiapo, Manila, Philippines). They take cover behind rubble. Soldiers engage in street fighting against the Japanese in front of boarded store in Ongpin street, Binondo (Manila Chinatown district). Troops pass by a wrecked building. U.S. soldiers gathered around a chart. They fire gun from hole in wall. Soldiers check houses for booby-traps. Soldier at window of building. Tanks and troops advance. Smoke screen in street. Soldier talks into radio. Captured Japanese march under guard.

Date: 1945
Duration: 5 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675052671