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Women's Army Corps visit National Museum in Tokyo in Japan

Women's Army Corps officers drive in a hand driven rickshaw being pulled by Japanese men in Tokyo in Japan. Four WAC officers walk up the steps in Ueno Park. Two officers are seen with a Japanese girl wearing a Kimono. They look at pottery in the window of a store and visit the National Museum.

Date: 1949, December 11
Duration: 2 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037857
Women's Army Corps Officers visit Major Grove's house in Tokyo in Japan

Women's Army Corps Officers arrive at Major Grove's house in Tokyo, Japan. Major Moynahan cuts a 'Bon Voyage' cake as all of them have Western-style tea with Major Grove's family. Japanese servants in kimonos pour tea for guests. A Japanese butler serves tea for Major Moynahan. A Japanese seamstress measures a Women's Army Corps Officer for the service coat. Another officer types in the office. Japanese hairdresser combs the hair of an officer. Another officer gets a manicure done by a Japanese manicurist. An officer gets her hair combed from a woman employee in a beauty salon at the WAC billet.

Date: 1949, December 11
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037858
British sailors tell stories of their rescue to Women's Army Corps Captain in England (WW2)

Two British seamen recount their D-Day Normandy invasion rescue to a Women's Army Corps (WAC) Captain in Plymouth, England in World War II. Seaman on the left tells how after a British carrier hit a mine and the American soldiers had to swim to the shore. Seaman on the right tells that the carrier, on which he was there, was hit at the beach broadside and the men had to swim through rough seas. Most of the men were picked up by a United States landing ship and returned to England.

Date: 1944, June 7
Duration: 5 min 12 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038188
Newsreel 'Women aid war effort in U.S. and Canada'

Views of many women war production workers seen working in ship yards in Canada as part of war production effort in North America during World War 2. Women help in building Victory ships in shipyards. Canadian women are seen wearing uniforms and helmets to aid the war production effort. Women work as electricians and in construction. A woman is seen smoking. In the United States, view of women in WAC (Women's Army Corps) repairing airplanes. Women are seen servicing the aircraft.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040773
United States soldiers visit a molten lava area of Mount Vesuvius in Italy.

United States soldiers on leave visit Mount Vesuvius in Italy. The soldiers tour the molten lava area of Mount Vesuvius with an Italian guide. They light a cigarette with lava. The soldiers take pictures through the smoky haze. Women of U.S. WACs (Women's Army Corps) eat sandwiches. (World War II period).

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675046498
28th Infantry Division soldiers receive a warm welcome as they return to Boston, Massachusetts from the European Theater.

U.S. 28th Infantry Division returns to Boston, Massachusetts during World War II. A ship approaches a harbor. WACs (Women's Army corps) wave as the ship arrives. Soldiers and officers aboard the ship. A sign on the ship reads '28th Infantry Division'. Soldiers wave as they return from the European Theater of War. Governor Edward Martin of Pennsylvania and Governor Maurice J. Tobin of Massachusetts shakes hands with General Sota.

Date: 1945, August 7
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675050688