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Meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee as Henry Wallace is nominated as the Secretary of Commerce in the United States.

Nomination of Former Vice President Henry Wallace as Secretary of Commerce in the United States. Meeting of the Senate Commerce Committee. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones addresses the committee. He speaks about the qualifications and background which he deems essential in one who aspires to head the lending agencies which deal in billions. Wallace addressing the officials and talks about the RFC.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 2 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076583
The WAC nurses treating the wounded soldiers and officers in a hospital in the United States.

The recruitment of Women Army Corps (WACs) for medical units in the United States during World War 2. Surgeon General Norman Thomas Kirk and commanding officer of the WAC Oveta Culp Hobby seated at a desk. A wounded soldiers on stretcher on a field. Soldiers carrying another wounded soldier. Medics treating the wounded in field hospital tent. An ambulance carrying the wounded soldiers arrive at a hospital building. Doctors and nurses perform surgery on wounded in operating room. Wounded lying on hospital beds. Nurses treating them. Women in a large room examine specimens under microscope. Women filing medical records. Woman lowering a X-ray machine device into position over a patient. Woman delivering completed xray films to a doctor for review on lighted background. A woman chemist works in a laboratory. A woman assists a recovering soldier with physical therapy. A woman helps a wounded soldier light his pipe. A recovered officer shakes hands with the nurses and leaves the hospital.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076584
The U.S. officers being greeted by and meeting other officials in China.

U.S. officers arrive in China. Commandant of the U.S. forces in China General Albert Wedemeyer makes an inspection tour of the American installations in China. He comes out of an aircraft. Other officials greet him. U.S. Ambassador to China Patrick Jay Hurley arrives and meets Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China Chiang Kai-shek. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill meets local leaders in Athens, Greece.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076585
Heavy columns of smoke arises due to the fire at the Navy yard in Norfolk, Virginia.

Damage due to fire at the Navy yard in Norfolk, Virginia. The fire spreads to adjacent piers. A huge loss to property and many people wounded due to the fire. Firemen dousing the fire with fire hoses. Heavy columns of smoke arise due to fire. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076586
A woman feeds her triplets at the same time with a new bottle in Weymouth, Massachusetts.

A new feeding bottle developed for triplets in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Woman with her triplets seated in her house. The babies on a bed. They are fed at the same time with a new bottle.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076587
JB-2 robot bomb produced and test launched in the United States during WW2.

Manufacture and testing of a new robot bomb in the United States: A Republic Aviation and Ford Motor Company collaboration known as the JB-2 Loon, modeled after the German V-1 flying bomb. Interior of a war production factory. Worker welding part of bomb frame. Workers wheeling completed bomb fuselages on wheeled platforms in the plant. Closeup of an African American man wheeling a bomb. Henry Ford II and Ray Rausch, of Ford Motor Company, who oversaw the production of the pulsejet engines for the JB-2 bomb. Men working for the construction of the robot bomb. Closeup view of engine being fired on a test stand. Men and women war production workers at the Willys-Overland production plant in Toledo, Ohio are seen working on the interior components of the flying bomb, then closing the completed fuselages, and attaching the wings to the flying bomb. Engineering officers from the Army Air Forces Air Technical Command inspect a completed JB-2 flying bomb. View of a test launch o the bomb from a sandy beach area. The bomb engine fires and the bomb launches out over ocean waters, dropping its auxiliary launching apparatus beneath it, close to shore.

Date: 1944, January 25
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076588