Verity Film Ltd. ]]> 1942]]> Warner Brothers]]> United States Army Air Forces ]]> 1942]]> U.S. War Department Special Service Division]]> U.S. Signal Corps]]> 1942]]> Newsreel Feature Productions]]> Wilding Picture Productions Inc.]]> 1942]]> Erskine Caldwell: reporter]]> 1941]]> U.S. Office of War Information]]> 1942]]> "Survey Finds Much Travel Unnecessary": narration states "You can help win the war by staying home," explaining that civilian travel contributes to delays and overburdening of rail and bus lines essential to the war effort, and can delay soldiers on leave attempting to visit home. Discusses a Government conducted survey's findings that much civilian travel is unnecessary.
"Mobile Laundry for Front Line Troops": reports on the mobile laundry set up behind the front lines, using "electronic washers," a centrifugal "moisture extractor" and "heated tumblers" to wash the clothes of 7,500 soldiers a week. "Alcan Highway Finished-New Link With Alaska": reports on the completion of the Alaskan highway. Shows the strategic importance of Alaska in the Pacific theater, Alaska's wealth of natural resources. Discusses the Japanese bombing of Dutch Harbor, the first attack on the North American continent. "Damien Parer, Australian Cameraman Reports Jungle Warfare": reports on fighting in New Guinea; the use of camouflage, reliance on supplies dropped from airplanes in remote locations, and the support of natives to carry wounded soldiers. "The Marines' Hymn" Montage of scenes of the U.S. Marines in action, including dramatization of historic naval battles, accompanies a rendition of the Marines' Hymn. "Unnecessary travel, mobile laundry for front line troops, Alcan Highway, jungle fighting and marines' hymn." (War Films Bulletin of the Extension Division Indiana University, February, 1943, 6.)]]> U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures]]> 1942]]> U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures]]> Samuel Spewack]]> 1942]]> Presents the training of civilians for rescue work during World War II. Shows the procedures for assigning volunteers to the type of work for which they are prepared and training them to perform as a unit. Follows a squad from the sounding of the alarm, going to the scene, surveying the wreckage and taking notes, and tunneling for buried victims, to the orderly departure of the squad from the scene.]]> U.S. Office of Civilian Defense]]> Audio Productions, Inc.]]> 1942]]> U.S. Office of War Information Bureau of Motion Pictures]]> U.S. Coast Guard]]> 1942]]>