The American home front at the end of 1942
Donald M. Nelson urges faster war production, a woman war worker models a safety cap, and merchant seamen march in New York.
A broad-faced man in round spectacles, whom the source names as Donald M. Nelson of the War Production Board, speaks at a microphone before a banner of which only fragments can be read; a young woman at a machine wears a close-fitting cap with a short peak, her hair gathered into a net; on a vast parade ground thousands of young men in dark uniforms and caps march past civilians and officers.
By the end of 1942 American factories were turning out aircraft, tanks and ships at a rate no other country approached, and millions of women had taken jobs in them. The Merchant Marine, which carried the output across the oceans, trained its crews at new stations such as the one the source places in New York. The newsreel, released by MGM as News of the Day, told the war as its American audience was meant to see it.
