https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/aadf3010-0211-4093-8430-86edaf9bad3f This black-and-white from 1945 is one of the original ‘GI – Movie Weekly’ programs presented by the Armed Forces during World War II. The series of Army newsreels were produced until October 1945 and included over one thousand features and shorts. After WWII the series was continued commercially through the Army. This episode covers the importance of cotton in the Army’s uniforms, equipment, first aid, and much more. Informational text (00:06). An Army Service Forces letter written to the cotton industry (00:20). Workers picking cotton in a cotton field (01:14). A mechanical cotton picker harvesting cotton (01:28). A factory producing cotton thread and fabric (01:43). A canon fires (01:55). War ships sailing (01:58). Soldiers crawling onto beaches (02:00). Soldiers in an aircraft (02:06). An army base camp (02:18). The production of cotton fabric (02:25). Undressed soldiers are handed their uniforms (02:57). They dress (03:09). Mannequin heads wearing different army hats made from cotton (03:22). A steel helmet (03:25). The cotton strings inside the steel helmet (03:28). A mannequin is dressed in the layers of soldiers’ uniform (03:33). Mannequins displaying all army uniforms and equipment (04:00). Soldiers lying in their beds (04:06). Soldiers moving around dressed in uniforms (04:10) and carrying their equipment (04:29). A soldier setting up a tent in a forest (04:36). A convoy of military vans being loaded (04:46) and driving through landscapes (04:49). Soldiers marching (04:59) and embarking a ship (05:09). Cargo is loaded onto the ship (05:15). Grumman F8F Bearcat planes (05:29). Soldiers waving from the ship (05:40). The warfare ship sails (05:43). Soldiers resting onboard while the ships sail (06:01). Views of the landscapes and sea surrounding the sailing ship (06:18). Soldiers crawling on the ground during a battle (06:45). Guns are fired underneath camouflage nets (06:53). A soldiers speaking on a phone (07:02). Soldiers installing wiring (07.03). An M1919 Browning machine gun (07:05). Views of various planes flying including Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress planes (07:08). Views of the equipment inside the plane made of cotton (07:34). Planes firing at each other (07:57). Paratroop soldiers sitting inside a plane (08:09). The soldiers jump from the plane using parachutes (08:48). Supplies are also thrown from the plane using parachutes (09:11). The soldiers and the supplies land on the ground (09:22). Views of the soldiers who fought the Japanese (09:27). A wounded soldier wrapped in cotton bandages (09:38). Footage of the soldiers (09:44). They receive new uniforms (10:10). Soldiers preparing for battle aboard a sailing ship (10:48). War ships (11:03). One of them fires (11:06). A soldier has cotton in his ear to protect it from loud sounds (11:09). Soldiers arrive on land in LVT-4 Water Buffalo tanks (11:13). They run into bunkers (11:16) and a battle begins (11:21). Workers picking cotton in a cotton field (11:40). A factory producing cotton thread and fabric (11:44). Factory worker producing American flags of cotton (11:49). “The End” written on screen (12:11). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxOBtuJJUU Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:28:17 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/aadf3010-0211-4093-8430-86edaf9bad3f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.