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bucolic_frolic

(47,137 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:48 PM Mar 2020

MANUFACTURING 3-INC ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELLS WORLD WAR II ORDNANCE FILM FRANKFORD ARSENAL 1

Kind of a mundane film of a very complicated and labor intensive process at a factory in Philadelphia in WWII. Note how the workers have no safety glasses, use spray paint and lacquer with no breathing masks, no gloves with all those metal edges, rinse and wash processes throwing liquids all around, I think it says 1000 shells in an 8 hour shift.

Amazing they even made a film of this, and that it still exists.

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MANUFACTURING 3-INC ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELLS WORLD WAR II ORDNANCE FILM FRANKFORD ARSENAL 1 (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 OP

There's a lot of WWII historical stuff online nowadays. I find it very interesting captain queeg Mar 2020 #1

industrial films were a big business before TV took over. they were shorts seen at the movies along msongs Mar 2020 #2

There was a call for everyone to grab an oar during that war Jarqui Mar 2020 #3

captain queeg

(11,780 posts)

1. There's a lot of WWII historical stuff online nowadays. I find it very interesting

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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:01 PM

Mar 2020

I was just reading about proximity fuses the US developed for AA artillery. Don’t know if it went down to 3” size. For awhile they wouldn’t let the army use them because they were afraid the nazis would collect a dud and figure out how to make them so for a long time only the navy could use them. They were first used, to dramatic effect, during the battle of the bulge. They’d set the artillery to air burst above German soldiers who were afraid to get out of their Fox holes.

msongs

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2. industrial films were a big business before TV took over. they were shorts seen at the movies along

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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:01 PM

Mar 2020

with cartoons

Jarqui

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3. There was a call for everyone to grab an oar during that war

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Sun Mar 22, 2020, 10:04 PM

Mar 2020

Many did.

Why hasn't there been a call for citizens to help make masks for their doctors & nurses - for example?

They can't make N95 level but home made masks are significantly better protection than nothing.
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/best-materials-make-diy-face-mask-virus/

Even the gesture would help lift the spirits of medical folks in the trenches.

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