United States 14th Air Forces in China. Barrels of oil piled up. Chinese people loaded in trucks flee their villages due to Japanese attack. Trucks being repaired as men wok on the engine of the trucks. Chinese civilians and soldiers cross a bridge on foot. Wounded civilians being carried to safe places on litters. Chinese people clog the rail road track as they move to safer places. Chinese men loaded on a rail road train. A Chinese woman with her children. A wounded being carried on a litter. A Chinese man carries luggage. Chinese soldiers board a plane and it takes off. Soldiers advance along a hill. A map of China shows American 14th Air Force action in China. Cars move along Ledo road. Aerial view of the traffic on Ledo road. Figures symbolize number of ships and planes used, dead soldiers, and civilians in the operations against Japanese in China. (World War II period).
Allied Military Government activities in Europe during World War II. A sign reads ' Police et Administration '. A policeman questions a Belgian child. A displaced Russian boy being questioned with the help of two interpretors. A man puts up a work schedule onto a board and assigns labor details. Children being taken care of in a nursery.
' Operation Pluto ' about the British operation to lay down under the sea pipe lines to supply gasoline in the European theater during World War II. A map of France. Flexible pipelines to transport gasoline between France and England are tarred and wrapped in Britain. Pipelines being manufactured and piled up in a yard. Ships and boats underway in the English Channel as the pipes are being laid.
New helicopters being tested in the United States. United States XR-8 helicopter lifts off during a test flight. Men look on. A helicopter lifts off from a roof with cars parked on the ground below. A U.S. Air Force helicopter during a test flight comes in and lands. The pilot works on throttles and foot paddle to control the various functions. The pitch control of the helicopter. Propellers of the helicopter rotate. The helicopter lifts off. The pilot works on the throttles.
M2 Carbine fired in the United States. A man holds M1 and M2 Carbine. A lever on M2 that makes it different from the M1. A man fires M2 carbine as he pulls the trigger. Lever being moved forward and M2 is automatically operated. Magazine used for the M2 Carbine. An operating model of M2 Carbine. A lever being fitted on the crank pin. Trigger being squeezed to demonstrate the mechanism of the new M 2 Carbine. A man pulls th lever. Slide of the operating model moves down. Selector being fitted on crank pin. A man demonstrates the automatic and semi automatic mechanism of the M 2 Carbine. A man fires the Carbine. (World War II period).
Improvement in housing facilities in post war era in the United States, using building materials and techniques developed during the war effort. Men and women in a testing lab as they conduct research for construction of better houses. Various housing material like plywood, shatter proof bricks, roofing material being put to test and analyzed by men and women standing at various machines. Plexiglass gun turrets from World War 2 shown during fabrication in a war materials plant, but then shown in a home bathroom being used for a shower surround and as base for a seating chair. A woman sits in front of the vanity mirror in her pre-fabricated house. Views of several different modern prefabricated houses in large and smaller sizes. Various parts of a pre fabricated houses being made and assembled. A man arrives home from work and greets his family with wife and two children outside a prefabricated suburban house. Sheep graze at a farm with a prefabricated farm house in the background. A modified quonset hut barn is shown. Cattle are seen inside the quonset hut barn house, and a calf is shown being placed in a mobile stall cage that can moved on wheels to save space. Another type of house includes pre assembled mass produced houses. A woman relaxes on a lawn outside such a house. Interiors of a pre fabricated house with all types of labor saving devices. Housewife or homemaker works in the kitchen of such a house. She opens a lid in the counter top to reveal a sink. She opens a waffle iron that has been integrated into a counter or oven, that also features food storage bins and a toaster. She sets a chicken to roast on a rotisserie. Views of models of many new, futuristic, modern home designs, and also planned community housing projects. A construction site with a steam shovel digging dirt. Ground level view as bucket of steam shovel filled with dirt approaches camera. Bricks being unloaded from a dump truck. Sign at a construction site says "Here is now being erected a home for Edward J. Strahm, World War II veteran, under priority #44-012-003005, Veterans Administration G.I. Bill of Rights." Men at the construction site building the home. A bricklayer working. A construction worker uses a circular saw. A worker hammers nails into floor boards. Electricians at work and tooling machines. Men work with a cement mixer. Bricklayers at work. A tall apartment building under construction. Aerial views of planned communities situated away from industrial areas.
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