https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/027e5bc6-f15b-4548-a66b-4eda0183d894 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD "Firepower" is an official War Department morale, industrial incentive and propaganda film produced in 1943 by The Signal Corps for the Army and Navy promotes the teamwork being done in the U.S. to create munitions that support the war effort in all theaters of the war. 00:33 Tug boats and barges move around the waters outside Brooklyn Navy Yard. Transport ships at the pier, troops march toward and onto the ships. Soldiers rest topside. 01:03 Battleship guns, Jeeps, freight, and military airplanes are loaded onto ships. 01:13 Rifles are tested at a firing range. Ordinance officers review newly fashioned ordinance in a factory where workers operate various machines, test weapons, design munitions, review newly made rifles. 01:52 Portraits of Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Sommervell, Chief of Services of Supply; Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson; Rear Admiral W.H.P. Blandy, Navy’s Chief of Bureau of Ordinance; Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. 02:09 Battleships at sea. Sailors load main guns which fire into the sky. Combat footage of U.S. Navy ships fight off aerial attacks in the Pacific. 02:33 Bombs drop from bombers, and fighter planes scorch the sky. 02:39 A squadron of tanks roll across open ground. 02:48 A military transport plane flies over the mountains of Yugoslavia. Chetnik soldiers below wave to get the plane’s attention. The plane drops supplies. The soldiers rush to collect, unraveling new rifles. 03:28 Portraits of Yugoslav cities and countryside. The Bosnian countryside appears and we see farms, country roads, folk dancers. 03:59 Cityscape portrait of Prague, Czechoslovakia. 100,000 people in a stadium exercise in unison. 04:21 The Czech mountains and mountain towns. 04:42 Greek soldiers march through Greek cities: Constitution Square in Athens. Citizens go about daily living. Children play, a mother feeds her child. 05:08 A printed communique reads: Cairo, March 16, 1942 Starvation, exposure, and execution have taken toll of 150,000 to 200,000 lives in Greece in less than a year of German-Italian occupation. 05:22 A busy harbor in Norway. Farmers work mountain fields, livestock roam fields; city scenes of daily life. 05:36 City street scenes and country vistas in Poland. Farmers work fields, harvest. 05:53 Polish troops march on parade. 06:03 U.S. steel mills and factories in full action, munitions factories creating ammunition, steel workers forge steel. 06:19 Polish troops on parade review. 06:22 Trains pull into factories, steel is forged, Free Polish aviators prepare to board aircraft, as RAF fighter sly overhead. 06:32 Combat footage of RAF fighters attack German fighters. 06:36 U.S. factory work at a machine producing cannon shells. 06:42 Czech troops in battle. 06:46 U.S. factory work at a machine producing gun barrels. 06:55 Combat footage of cannon firing, sailors in formation on ships. Cruisers and destroyers push through high seas. 07:09 Lumberjacks in Washington State fell a tree. Cut wood shuttles through a factory being made into paper. 07:20 Troops head into battle. 07:23 Steel workers smelt metal and pelt steel, miners mine coal, factories produce cannons, guns, munitions. 08:12 Mill works, miners, and lumberjacks at work. 08:26 U.S. Navy ships at sea, French troops present arms, Brazilian Army marches. 08:33 Combat footage of a Chinese city being shelled, citizens lying wounded in the street. 08:54 Various soldiers march in various countries. 09:00 Russian soldiers and citizens repair / rebuild wartorn towns. 09:05 Russian Army on parade in Moscow. 09:12 Fleet of U.S. Navy ships at sea. 09:45 Soldiers throw grenades, fire rifles, pistols, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, canon, planes drop bombs, tanks roll and fire, artillery booms, torpedoes launch, battleship guns roar. 10:39 END Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. 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