U.S. War Office]]> 25.5 x 18.5 in.]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps ]]> 1943]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps ]]> 1944]]> A film "showing the fighting and casualties invovled in securing the Anzio beachhead." (William H. Nelson, "Washington Film News," Movie Makers, July 1944, 260.)]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps]]> 1944]]> Explains why large quantities of war materials, in particular steel, are needed for the war effort. Machines such as tanks, planes, weapons, and ships might end up in a pile of rubble after a battle, but they save the lives of men who are helping to win the war. Shows the sea battle and beachhead landing of the Normandy invasion. The narrator encourages American workers and emphasizes the importance of their work stating at the end: “Give us steel, for a shining triumph.”]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps ]]> 1944]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps ]]> 1944]]>
Weapon of War from the Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps’ First Motion Picture Unit: uses animation featuring the voice talents of Mel Blanc to show how American solidarity defeated the Nazi’s most dangerous “weapon of war”: racial and religious hatred intended to sow conflict before a military assault. 0:00-6:16.

Great Floor by the Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit: shows the creation of a landing strip in China through the labor of 70,000 Chinese villagers using pre-industrial technologies under the direction of a small crew of American Army engineers. 6:18-10:44.

Sky Guys by the Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit: depicts the start of the Liberation of southern France from the viewpoint of Army paratroopers. 10:45-12:47.

Coming Home by the Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit: Documentation of the American Navy assault on the island of Guam to retake the American territory from the Japanese. Includes footage of wounded and dead Japanese and American soldiers. 12:48-18:50.]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps' First Motion Picture Unit]]> Army Air Forces Combat Film Unit]]> 1944]]> U.S. War Office]]> Army Pictorial Services Signal Corps]]> 1945]]> This film focuses on the many aspects of the wartime production and supply dissemination "chain", from creating goods to navigating the dangerous delivery of shipments. "A Nazi submarine 'wolf pack' racing to intercept a convoy carrying urgently needed supplies - and the race against time by those who handle these supplies and load the convoy - furnish the dramatic elements in this film. The picture brings out the importance of the many jobs, both big and small, performed by men and women who are vital links in the life line to the front and whose war work has received little publicity or praise." (Supplement to Visual Aids Catalog, Indiana University Extension Division, 1945, 15)

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