WWII - 1942, USA Homefront: WAACS; Ship Salvage; Synthetic Rubber; Oil Pipeline; Ride Sharing; Civilian Air Training; Grasshopper Infestation; Charity Baseball; Pilot Endurance Training

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1942, USA Homefront: WAACS; Ship Salvage; Synthetic Rubber; Oil Pipeline; Ride Sharing; Civilian Air Training; Grasshopper Infestation; Charity Baseball; Pilot Endurance Training Title: WAACS Start Army Training. Women in civilian clothes, some wearing hats, marched past barracks at first WAAC Training Center, Fort Des Moines, Iowa; sign: clothing warehouse, women leave w/ duffles as men watch. 00:48:22 Woman helped into coat in barracks & poses. LS Oveta Hobby w/ male officer inspects beds as women stand at foot of beds. MCU inspecting shoes. 00:48:31 CU WAAC Director Hobby; MS shaking hands w/ ??, woman officer. 00:48:40 Lines of women enlisting for first officer candidate class (20Jul-29Aug42); in barracks mess hall, Black & White women eating in civilian clothes separately. 00:49:05 Ext. Line of five women at attention in uniforms, CUs. Colonel Hobby reviewing. Women in dresses marching. 00:49:29 Title: Blasted Ship Is Salvaged. American ship which had been split in two & sunk by mine or torpedo showing hull split w/ tugboat alongside. Tangled wreckage w/ workers moving around. CU man making V for Victory sign. 00:50:09 POV from water past stern of ship w/ tug alongside. 00:50:13 Title: For Military Use Only. Low Angle / LA Firestone chemical factory structure w/ tanks & pipes showing manufacturing process used to create synthetic rubber for war purposes. Exteriors & interiors processing plant w/ workers. Coagulant tanks - Buna Rubber. 00:51:00 Title: New Pipeline Is Under Way. Secretary Ickes & two other VIPs in straw hats walk past, pose & inspect example of first shipment of 24 inch pipe to be used for new 550 mile pipeline direct from Texas to Central Illinois. 00:51:36 Title: How To Fight Fire Bombs. Civil defense / military demonstration, flare burning & Chief Landis sees fire bombs extinguished by hand pump. Various test sites. CU Landis & ??. Burning tests in containers. 00:52:26 Title: Share Your Car And Help. Workers of the Glenn Martin plant set a record in car pooling as Government continues to urge conservation of rubber, fuel & transportation equipment. Various models of cars along road, stop & pick up passengers. High Angle / HA of large parking lot; MCU Glenn Martin (?) shaking employee hands as they get out of car. Workers in / out of plant thru gates. 00:53:14 Title: Girl Scouts Air-Minded. Thirty girl scout leaders visit a big bomber plant; building model airplanes; Glenn Martin gesturing showing how propeller works. Women holding model planes on strings. 00:53:46 Turks Battle Hopper Army. View over fruit orchards, growers & farmers of Eastern Washington’s Snake River Valley walk thru grass, grasshoppers flying up. CU Grasshoppers on fruit - farmers look at eaten cabbages. LS Turkeys all over field eating grasshoppers. 00:54:25 Title: The Irish Go for Baseball. Crowd in stadium stand for charity baseball game; de Valera (?) throws out first pitch. American soldiers play baseball on soccer field; crowd of Irish civilians & US soldiers. 00:55:03 Title: Navy Pilots Toughened. LS running & exercises / calisthenics in pre-flight school training; run over obstacle course. 00:56:11 Jumping into flaming pool. WW2; Military Celebrity; Technology; 1940s Inventions; Inventors; Agriculture; NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk