"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]]>
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]]>