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Army - Navy Screen Magazine: 1944 - Issue 43
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keywords: US Government, WWII, GI Bill Of Rights, Veterans Administration, VA, WWI Vet Parades, College Campus, WWII, Pacific Theater, American Field Service, AFS, Ambulance Drivers, Field Medics, India WWII, Burma WWII, Soldier Morale, Wish List, Haaren High School NYC, Winter Snow, City Of Chicago
Synopsis: GI Bill of Rights 1944, WWII American Field Service AFS 1944, By Request - WWII Letters from the Troops 1944...(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:20:58
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, India, Burma
GI Bill of Rights 1944
This story examines the many ways the G.I. bill of rights can assist WW2 veterans returning home and beginning the transition back to civilian life.
Shot List:
00:00:42
Film begins with WWI veterans returning home to America on ships and marching in parades
00:01:45
WW2 combat sequences
00:02:17
Washington DC monuments
00:02:37
Soldiers transitioning to civilians and signing up for the G.I. Bill of Rights
00:03:42
Walking down the sidewalk with a new suit. Entering the local Draft Board office
00:04:33
War Manpower Commission Unemployment Office
00:05:03
New Small business owner received U.S. Treasury Dept. check for assistance
00:05:29
Veterans Administration regional office applying for education benefits
00:05:58
Establishing shots of high school, college and university campuses. Entering New York University with scenes of registrars office, library, classroom and science lab
00:07:16
Suburban neighborhood with establishing home exteriors. Car pull into the driveway, wife looks out the kitchen window, man with a suit (ex G.I.) exits the car and pets the family dog, picks up the newspaper off the lawn, beautiful blonde greets him on the front porch with a big kiss. Americana 1940s style!
00:08:05
“The G.I. Bill of Rights is not a reward, or a handout, or a gravy train. But rather an American way to make it easier for each man to take his place once again in the community and get some of those things for which he went to war… a job, a business, an education, a home”
CUT - CUE THE KISS (Happily Ever After)
WWII American Field Service AFS 1944
All volunteer group of 1,000 American men serving in WW2 who were either discharged or not allowed to enlist in the U.S. military for mostly medical reasons. Film shows AFS soldiers serving as British Ambulance drivers and assisting in field medical operations.
Shot List:
00:09:55
Disembarking train in Bombay with locals carrying bags and travel items on their heads
00:10:13
Arriving at British headquarters in Bombay
00:10:42
Departing AFS units driving ambulances 2,000 miles across India to the Burma front
00:11:31
Arrival at post on the Burma Front against the Japanese. Scenes include local villagers, elephants carrying construction materials, building air raid cliff trenches and bunkers, stretchers loading wounded personnel into transport vehicles
00:13:03
With the threat of the base being overrun, AFS volunteers destroy all equipment that could be of use to the Japanese enemy soldiers
00:13:28
Evacuation of the base to air transport
By Request - WWII Letters from the Troops 1944
Female Sergeant opens letters from G.I.’s at the ‘by request desk’. Wishes are granted with accompanying film footage.
Shot List:
00:15:12
1st request is to see Haaren High School in New York City at 3:05 pm as all the kids are getting out of school
00:16:19
2nd request is to see snow which is answered with footage of blizzard conditions, a large snowplow, soldiers shoveling snow and de-icing aircraft
00:17:21
3rd request is to see hometown of Chicago. Answered with sequences of Chicago in the 1940s. Chicago skyline, scene of the river looking past the bridges, Michigan Ave. near the Art Institute, the loop at state and Madison, electric trolly cars, crowds, Chicago L and Ravenswood Express, stockyards
00:18:51
4th request is have an original lyric written by a G.I. put to music and sung by a beautiful woman
