A public service informational campaign during World War 2 in the United States. A uniformed nurse tends to a U.S. Army Sergeant, Vincent Booth, who lost a leg during the African campaign of World War 2. He is in a wheel chair. The Sergeant speaks about the things that can be done on the home front to ration and help the war effort. As he narrates, a typical American family of three, father, mother, and youth in Boy Scout uniform, are seen sitting down at their dining room table. Missing is their daughter, serving as a WAC overseas (shown briefly in uniform) and their son, in the Navy (also shown briefly, in uniform). Scene shifts to the father at his work place. Narrator says he uses 10 percent of his weekly income to buy war bonds. The mother is seen at home with her Boy Scout son. She is writing letters to her son and daughter in the service. Change of scene shows her in a hospital, volunteering as a Red Cross Nurses aid. Next, the family members are seen in their home, characterized by the narrator as "an arsenal for victory," where they are being careful not to waste resources like electricity, home heating fuel, and cooking oils. They contribute their old metal objects to the war drive collections, and their son in the Boy Scouts participates in the local paper salvage drives. He is seen in Boy Scout uniform tying up a bundle of newspapers (with pictures of Hitler and Tojo on top which he dramatically stands on when tying the papers). They repair and use their old clothes, or contribute them to charities. The propaganda film ends summarizing ways that ordinary civilians can help the war effort, by rationing and avoiding waste at home, with on screen instructions: "Fight Waste! 1. Don't waste anything; 2. Buy only what is necessary; 3. Salvage what you don't need; 4. Share what you have."
U.S. Medical Corps in Italy during World War II. Injured U.S. soldiers being loaded onto railroad train, and wounded seen in bunks and beds aboard the medical train or hospital train. Nurses move in the moving train. The soldiers eat food. Next scene is at the Anzio Nettuno beachhead: The exteriors of a wrecked building. British and American soldiers and officers walk through a passage down the stairs. Soldiers work on maps and typewriters in tunnels at the underground Allied headquarters in Cassino. View of girl pin-up images decorating walls of the converted wine cellar headquarters. U.S. Soldiers pack German language leaflets into shells to be fired into the German lines at Cassino. View of one of the leaflets, which narrator says tell of the victories by Soviet forces on the eastern front. Shells holding propaganda leaflets are fired as soldiers discuss the strategy. A truck near a heap of shells. St. Elia: U.S. soldiers help injured civilian refugee people. An Italian woman carrying a child walks. A young civilian refugee girl stands near the truck and cries.
Flood damage in the United States in 1936. The Kennebec River, Maine: men stand on blocks of ice and view a broken bridge due to flooding. Ice jams loosened on the Penobscot River threaten towns near Bangor, Maine. View of giant ice flows and downed utility poles The Housatonic River, Connecticut: Broken electrical towers on the blocks of ice. Men walk on the ice blocks. Men clear the ice from road. Passaic River, New Jersey: the water of the river flows above limits over a bridge. Lake Conemaugh, Pennsylvania: View of submerged houses from flooding. The destoyed houses due to flood. The people stand on a bridge and heavy flow of water under the bridge. Ohio River: the submerged buildings from flooding are seen. Men on boats in front of the submerged shops. People on bridge run. The damaged cars,trains and trams lie on the streets. The streets filled with water. From a 1961 newsreel recounting events 25 years earlier.
A girl in Manhattan elementary school paints picture of the tall buildings she is accustomed to in her surroundings. Other children are also seen working on their paintings. One picture shows a policeman directing traffic. Another shows a fire station. A teacher uses their pictures to help the children learn to read. To help them learn counting, the teacher has a girl bounce a ball in front of the class. The children gather together as the teacher reads to them from a book. She has one boy come from the back to sit closer to her. One boy makes a face, showing how a rabbit looks when eating. The other children do it too. (World War II period).
Pre-invasion activities of United States Army Rangers (2nd Battalion) in Weymouth, England during World War 2. The Rangers eating doughnuts (donuts) and drinking coffee. They march along Weymouth Esplanade to an embarkation area. Royal Hotel Weymouth and St. John's Church seen in the background. They are checked as they move past the pier. The rangers get into British Landing Craft Assault (LCA) at the pier. (The officer seen with a white bar on front of his M1 helmet, is First Lieutenant Robert T. Edlin, who was the first American soldier to board a Landing craft at Weymouth for the Invasion of Europe.) LCAs underway at harbor en route to a transport. An LCA filled with troops.
Pre-invasion activities of United States Army Rangers in Weymouth, England during World War 2. The rangers walk past an American Red Cross tent, adjacent to Greenhill Gardens, Weymouth, where they receive coffee and doughnuts before sailing. A sign at the tent reads: "From the folks back home through the American Red Cross." A U.S. guard and a British guard patrol Weymouth Seafront, beside a gun emplacement on the esplanade in front of the Jubilee Clock Tower. An insignia on the ramp of Landing Ship Tank 357 (LST-357) reads '357' and shows a stork carrying a baby with the words 'We Deliver'. The ramp is raised.
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