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American women working at shipyards and factories in support of the war effort (WW2)

United States Employment Service helps find jobs to women during World War II. The government agency also arranges training programs for the women war production workers. Women workers in the shipyards repairing the parts of the battleships and making equipment for battleships. Women tighten nuts on ship body with large wrenches. Women tossing rivet materials to other women workers. Women building ships. They are asked why they are doing that work. They respond that their family members are in army, and they want to work with them. The United States Employment Service recruits female workers for the war work. View of offices and clerical workers helping to place workers for the war effort.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028454
How American women contributed to U.S. war efforts during World War II as well as World War I

Film begins showing women looking at a bulletin board advertising free war training classes, during World War 2. Women are seen in a classroom learning to be quality control inspectors in factories. Their instructor uses a large-scale model of a micrometer to illustrate its use. A giant slide rule is mounted on the wall in the background. Women are shown working in an aircraft factory drafting room, preparing drawings for parts. Scene changes to women war production workers being trained as welders. A woman is seen teaching another to operate a drill press. Another woman is being trained to us a metal turning lathe in a machine shop. An employee patch on her right shoulder reads: "Bendix Aviation." Next, a woman is seen guiding a DC-3 commercial airplane into its parking place on an airport. A crew of women works to clean and maintain commercial aircraft in a hangar. Another crew of women climbs aboard a steam locomotive to clean and otherwise maintain it. A woman working as a commercial bus driver, picks up a passenger. Women serving in a messenger service company. A woman running an elevator in an office building. A woman making milk deliveries to a home. Women driving tractors on the large farms of the Midwest. Others run a harvester pulled by a team of 20 mules. A few men express reservations about the ability of women to work outside the home while still caring for families. Complete change of scene shows newsreels from World War 1 with men in uniforms marching. Nurses served overseas at base hospitals. But teams of women also supplemented for missing men in other occupations. One scene shows them shoveling debris into railroad open cars. Another showed women working in a lumber yard and also plowing fields on a farm. So-called Yeomanettes (World War I version of later era Waves) are seen on parade in uniform. Old newsreel shows U.S. Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, reviewing Yeomanettes, as his assistant Secretary, Franklin D. Roosevelt, converses with Vice Admiral William Sims. Film shifts back to World War II showing women in Army uniforms parading, glimpse of others who appear to be pilots. Film ends with montage of views seen earlier in the film.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028455
Allied planes drop bombs on the Pantelleria Island for invasion in Mediterranean Sea.

Allied planes drop bombs on the Pantelleria Island in Mediterranean Sea. A map shows the Italian island. Airplane in flight. Other airplanes in flight nearby. They drop bombs on the island. High altitude view of the Island and the bombarding. (World War II period).

Location: Mediterranean sea
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028520
General De Gaulle and General Giraud meet at Algeria airport and review French troops in North Africa.

General De Gaulle and General Giraud meet at Algeria airport in North Africa. They review the French troops. The troops are equipped with modern weapons. Car parked in the background. General Giraud decorates General Eisenhower, Allied Supreme Commander. Soldiers march. Trees in the background. (World War II period).

Location: Algeria
Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028521
United States farmers sow potato crop in their farm, United States.

United States farmers work on their farms, United States. They sow potato crops in the farm. Men and women work and sow the crop. They use various planting machines for an increased yield. Tractors move on the farm. Farmers work overtime at night.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1943
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028522
Hindu pilgrims arrive in mass to participate in Chithirai Thiruvizah festival at the Meenakshi Temple in Tamil Nadu, India

Hindus gather for the Chithirai Thiruvizah festival religious ceremony in Tamil Nadu, India. Exterior of the Meenakshi Temple. Hindu pilgrims arrive at the temple for the ceremony. Carts parked on the ground. A huge wooden cart carries the statues of the goddess drawn by people moving on the street (This is the day after Meenakshi Tirukalyanam, known as Ther Thiruvizha, or Car Festival. In this event, the King and Queen of Pandya Kingdom, Lord Sunderaswarar and Meenakshi come to see their citizens in an ornate chariot).

Location: Tamil Nadu India
Date: 1943
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028523
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