THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II PRODUCTION HISTORIC FILM 74642
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Created during World War II, "The Aftermath of War Production" was created to educate the American public and government officials about the potential financial disaster that might occur after the end of WWII, when millions of surplus goods might be dumped on the market, and when millions of people might be put out of work through the cancellation of contracts. According to the film military surplus is an inevitability, but financial disaster and depression is preventable.
Film contains many shots of WWI and WWII factories, raw materials, Rosie the Riveter women at work for the war effort, mining, etc. as well as images of armored vehicles, tanks, aircraft, tooling, and more. The M-4 tank and M-10 tank destroyers are shown as an example. 2700 were built with 300 being produced per month when production was suspended in 1943, and 25,000 items were left surplus as a result. 17000 tons of steel were left surplus and had to be sold at an average price of $48 per ton.
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When I restored my 46' Willys cj2a I received some axle bearings dated 1942. They were wrapped in two layers of cosmoline and waxed paper sealed inside a box cover with more cosmoline and inside yet another box. It was like a time capsule. I felt really bad opening it. The bearing inside were absolutely mint. They really knew how to package things during the war years.
Jeff X I found a mint in the box Fram oil filter from 1942 for a WWII Jeep. Absolutely looked minty fresh and beautiful to the point that it's displayed proudly in my home instead of being used and ruined.
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I can absolutely see doing the same. I like to think that maybe the parts where packaged by my Grandmother or other family relative. I lot of my family lived and worked in Detroit during the war years
My dad brought home a Jeep....in crates completely dismantled. He told my mom to come outside and see the Jeep he just bought. She said where's the Jeep? Its right there in those crates. XD I rode in that little Jeep at the beach for years. It was unstoppable.
For a machinist it is a devastating feeling to watch the machines and parts you worked with being disassembled and scrapped. I´m an industrial mechanic and i know this feeling.
As long as you get paid who cares!
You'd think they would be glad the war is over but for some people it's only money that counts to them. Keep the slaughter coming, it's great for our profits!
Like your soul being melted with others of the same type in a crucible of indifference.
It still happens today. I worked for a tier 3 automotive supplier. One day we got the call letting us know the project we'd worked on for the past five months was total scrap. Yeah, we got paid...but five months of life were reduced to just a pile of scrap metal.
The World Trade Center complex was built on an area of lower Manhattan which once housed ten square blocks of techie stores, mostly WW-II and earlier surplus outlets. I purchased for next to nothing many WW-II era radio transmitters and receivers still in the original shipping crates (never opened since being factory packed). It was surplus heaven.
Heaven on earth
Do upload and share with us the equipment. Sound fantastic
@@borneoshutterclick Look at some old ham radio magazines (say from the mid 1950s to mid 1960s). The back pages were often filled with ads from these surplus sellers. One place I used to go to was G and G Electronics on Leonard Street. They had Arc-5 receivers and transmitters, ART-13 transmitters, and too many other things to mention off the top of my head. All of it was still brand new and mounted in the wooden shipping crates. Lots of stuff still had classification markings--for example, I remember picking up a BC-645 IFF transponder which included the original operating manual packed with the equipment. The manual was marked Confidential. The same neighborhood also contained stores which appealed to stamp collectors and stores which provided fishing equipment--I still have a collapsible fishing pole which I picked up in one of those places.
This is a great film that puts into perspective the massive production that was required to fight ww2.
In the early 1970s, I worked for a large aerospace electronics company. When they would get a government contract, part of the price included test instruments like o'scopes, digital multimeters, etc.. Everything had to be traceable for calibration purposes. After the contract was fulfilled, all test equipment was packed into shipping containers and sent off somewhere. We had no idea where the stuff ended up or if it ever got used again. I imagine it went to a warehouse, like the one in the Indiana Jones movie. Just stored away to rot in silence.
I was born in 1946. My school *backpack* was a GI pack. Our beds were army surplus, and our coffee mugs were Naval. When I left home in 1966, most of my clothing was army surplus. I don't recall when the stores went out of business. Not big items, but part of the problem.
After leaving Texas to California in the late 50's, we lived in surplus army baracks.
Our "outlying" middle school had no playground as the subdivisions built up and old barracks were moved onto the open space to accommodate larger enrollment. A startup college in Santa Fé NM was nearly all built of barracks with connecting corridors -- and didn't fully dispose of the barracks sections until 45-50 years later. My high school gym began as a surplus aircraft hangar and still stands. The NBC affiliate spent decades in surplus Quonset huts.
Did they ever accuse you of "Stolen valor"
Remember Friedman's Army/Navy surplus stores?
we used a lot for play time in the 1960s that was still hanging around. Like hats ammo belts canteens That various parents took home with them. Some was German. Friends gather had a Mauser 98 , but that could not be used for play time
Long Beach Surplus in Long Beach California, if you were ever able to go there in the 50’s and 60’s, it was a toy store of unimaginable proportions for boys of all ages. Long before REI, Kelly, North Face, our camping gear was Army surplus
As a kid in the 70s and 80s, all my camping and outdoor gear was army surplus. I don't think there was such a thing as a "camping" store
Once in awhile you see these gems on TH-cam... missing the time when YT wasn't all vlogs
When I reported to the 7th Marines in 1973 I was issued a 45cal pistol labeled "1945" and a pistol magazine pouch labeled "1918".
Thanks for your service USMC!
Know what you mean. Joined Australian Army in 1978, issued with wound dressing from WW2 (labelled 1943) 😝
I was handed a pistol from 1950 last year
Michael Jackson store them in engine oil and they will last for a very long time
Shank Thomas, store then in cosmoline or similar in a sealed container and they can last until the container fails.
I am looking for a old documentary I saw a year ago. It was during ww2, and it dealt with retrieving and re issuing damaged, destroyed and wounded soldiers personal kit. It showed French women in a new centre during ww2 paid by US to sort out damaged and destroyed uniforms, weapons and such, clean them and re issue them. It also showed the packs and personal effects of killed soldiers being opened, inspected and sorted for re issue.
I am interested in it if you find it.
We could never mass produce this quality and quantity today should there be a massive war. Our factories have almost all shutdown or moved to China. Sad!
The quality of the generations is gone too. I'm 38 years old. I wanted to make my wife a ring from a quarter. So I watched a couple of videos on here. Rounded up some rudimentary tools and hammered out a ring on my lap in my living room so the kids could watch. Show them how it could be done. I made a beautiful ring right off the first try. I got so good at it I can make them look store bought. These young people need just try to do something and they may find a hidden talent but even I'm guilty of sitting on my ass staring at my fone
Probably be China who we go to war with!
I recall my Dad telling me that a complete surplus PT Boat could be had for about $1500-$3000 at the end of the war (which was a lot of money for the time).
As a young guy in the 60's, nearly all the machine tools in the machine shop had "Small War Plants" brass tags on them. A lot of machine tools were ex-Navy... every ship of any size had a machine shop on board and those tools got very little use at sea.
The plant I worked at in the 70's was almost 100% equipped with war production machines. Any machine of any size had an oval brass tag riveted to it, marked with "Property of War Dept" and an inventory number.
Even back then I was impressed how such well worn machinery could hold the tolerances required. But all those machines are gone in the past 40 years, replaced by new technology and new machines.
The old stuff is still lurking around in places. I recently watched a video advertising a machine shop in the mid-west somewhere. Their specialty was tubing products I think. In the background of one of the scenes was a large Warner-Swayze turret lathe merrily working away. I know that the majority of shells for aircraft spark plugs are made on Acme-Gridley 6 spindle screw machines that may very well be WW2 vintage.
I am not exact, But Bridgeport millers have been made in Brazil for at the least 40 years now I think abort the same for industrial grade lathes
Bannerman's were still selling Civil War Springfield rifles in the 1950's.
Thanks for bringing back a name from history! Plus, remember Sarco? Still in business, and prone to saying, in their 4-pages spreads in Shotgun News, "We were looking through our warehouse and we found this lot of X number of WWII/WWI/Civil War Y's .... " Plus Herter's, "World's Best" whatever it was, what's funny is, the quality was very high and they could back up their claims ... story is they owned their own **island** yeah, shooting stuff in the old times, when ever HS kid had a .22 rifle at least and shooting teams were at least as highly esteemed as the football team.
Hello Alex, I first heard of Bannerman's when a guy brought a pristine Springfield rifle to the Antiques Roadshow. Then an American friend of mine showed me one his Father bought from Bannerman's in the early '50's. It was something like $14. They did have an island in the Hudson River with a castle on it. They moved everything there when they were ordered to get their stash of explosives out of NYC. The ruin of that castle is still there.
As a side note, my late Great Uncle Jim Bannerman was quite a famous sniper in the Perth Regiment of the Canadian Army in WWII.
www.antiquetrader.com/featured/vintage-firearms-trace-the-rise-and-fall-of-bannermans-empire
Ok I might be mixing up Herter's with Bannerman's. in any case, military surplus used to be a lucrative and respectable field and now it's just scrounging like the rest of us.
The book "dynamite stories" is free online and gives a taste of how things were in the old-old days.
I know it's not the same thing, age wise, but in the 90's, you could still get a complete package brand new 303, with scope and cleaning kit, in its original box, for a hundred bucks.
That's cool Marty. The .303 Lee Enfield is what my Uncles and my Father used in WW II. In the hands of a good marksman they were deadly. A lot of people think Alvin York used a Springfield rifle, but he had a Lee on that fateful day.
Would be interesting to see a historical work on how the employees and returning soldiers found employment after WWII. Much of it was in the automotive industry in the Detroit/Great Lakes region, and the US aerospace industry blossomed in the post-war era.
What a fascinating video, giving a glimpse at the utterly incredible amounts of waste and loss that peace brought about for the war production industries!
@Periscopefilms... no Question about it, you have some AWESOME videos Thank you for all the posts
This film shows, obliquely, how tight the security was around the Manhatten Project. Military planners were preparing for war against Japan to stretch into 1946.
some of the more practical , mundane aspect of a war economy that doesn't get much attention. I doubt they would make a film like this today. we ;learned valuable lessons from WW1
2:16 what id give to enter that store..
They stacked up tons and tons of 'leftovers' and burned it up in the Pacific. My Dad saw the waste, and wasn't happy about it. Same went on in Vietnam.
This video did a good job detailing problems not generally recognized by the public.
Great stuff !!! i LUV it. sadly many will assume it's out-dated, out-moded. But the principles of efficiency and avoiding waste through careful planning must apply for all times.
Watching this makes a grown man weep:-( If only !!!
great post. thanks.
If WW2 proved anything at all it certainly proved Eisenhower's post war prediction about the "military Industrial complex" was spot on...
Great post as always PF!
Thanks,mind boggling!
I've set up world war 2 machines that produce the things you use today. You wouldn't believe the amount of machines being used today from world war 2 today because they work better then newer machines as well they are built better in my opinion. I remember grabbing a replacement part for one machine that makes shocks for trucks and the part box said brand new 1944 on it lol. Covered in waxed paper. At least here in Canada at all factories your going to find these machines still pushing out parts in 2020 from my experience.
near my house there's still a war surplus yard with tanks, jeeps, wheels, axles, chassis tents bolts old electronics... even still there's a bell heli, and an all aluminum airstream trailer used by a general... remember when I was child I used to play in there haunting imaginary enemies and no virtual pokemons...
At the end of WWII, many thousands of tons of consumer goods were simply buried by the military in large excavations in Alaska. Soldiers weren't supposed to talk about it, but many have told of having dumped shipfulls of brand new refrigerators, oven ranges, washing machines into big holes up there, as part of some mission to help stimulate the economy. Someday there's going to be some great ecological disaster from all the buried steel in the Alaskan countryside.
Or new mining business
Alaskan here. The relics of ww2 here are incredible. Used to party out at old missile silos and bunkers as a kid. We would bring the rifles and use the old rusted equipment out there for target practice.
Another example would be when I was commercial fishing and we bought this old ww2 truck to tow stuff around the beach.
I can only imagine how many more artifacts are buried in random places up here
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My dad started working on cars in the late '40's as a teen, and became a professional mechanic. He had lots of mil surplus tools. The more expensive ones l remember wete a valve grinder, and a cylinder boring machine that operated like a lathe, and had enough capacity to bore out a Kenworth block. And of course, lots of hand tools,tool boxes, parts bins, etc, with proerty marks. One of the benefits of living close to Rock Island Arsenal. Major surplus was still turning up into the 70's-80's. One of the local families bought a semi truckload of Packard PTBoat engines for their tactor pull rig. I saw a walnut SPIW weapon prototype trigger unit in a surplus store in Moline in the 90's. I still regret not getting that.
$200 billion dollars in 1945 are roughly $2.72 trillion dollars in today's money.
Pretty close to the amount claimed missing by the Pentagon 2 days before 9/11.
it's amazing how machines are made engines, guns, electric motors, tractors ect
Not far from my home was a "War Aid" plant. It produced first aid kits and small parts for vehicles like canvas straps and such. When the war ended the Army hired a contractor with a bulldozer to dig a large hole behind the plant where the parts and kits were once stored.
Everything in the plant was inventoried and accounted for. Missing tools and items had to be found or paid for by the worker responsible for it. Then after all the workers were let go another contractor was hired to mover everything to the hole in the back lot. machine tools, tool boxes, even furniture went into the hole and was buried under the watchful eye of the plant commander.
The barracks for the guards, the plant buildings,, and the offices were inspected and locked, and the gates closed and locked as well.
They took down the flag and drove away leaving it empty for almost 20 years before selling it to the city for a dollar.
I always respected the old industry, how they manage to create high precision parts.
The trade school I attended in 1984 still had war surplus machine tools. Some of that old stuff is just as good today as it was when it was manufacturing war goods.
"War is waste" says it all.
Cameron Alexander no, war is not a waste. War is actually extremely profitable to the businesses who manufacture the needed wartime goods. Unfortunately...nothing is made here in the US anymore.
ROTAXD well by that logic we should just blow up the whole planet and rebuild it. That sounds profitable and productive.
you could say that ; but that would be ignoring the amount of advancements that come out of war.. if we had never had a world war, there would actually be less 20 percent of the global populace alive today.. hell, without the central powers in ww1 we wouldn't be able to feed 90 percent of the todays global populace.. not to mention nuclear energy, after all it does account for about 20 percent of our grid in america alone..
aside from that, we wouldn't exist today if the largest genocide in human history hadn't taken place around 800 years ago...
just a perspective for your consideration..
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actually the hippies and the coal miners did more to kill nuclear energy than the military..
also i think you are misunderstanding my reference to food production. i was referring to the fact that Fritz haber would never have invented the synthetic fertilisers that allow us to have 7 billion people on the planet ; if he hadn't been researching a way to weaponise gas for the central powers...
those are only two examples. there are thousands. its not just an American thing or even a modern thing, war breeds necessity ; necessity breeds knowledge..
Sumthin Stupid
Yes, the military wasn't the only enemy of nuclear energy, but the strong connection between power plants and bombs didn't help.
I understood your reference, but I'm pretty sure fertilizers would have been invented anyway.
That poor lady sweeping aside the swarf all day .... and I can almost smell the Cosmoline through this whole thing.
Swarth or firing pins actual parts ?
Hm! Good point!
Yes swarf not firing pins its a large bed/ slab mill
Ok most places just let it fall into a bucket seams strange to have someone to remove it onto a tray
Way to make me look up "swarf."
Has anyone heard of "Cargo Cults" on abandoned pacific islands ? I remember hearing of Quonset huts full of crated WW2 Harley's , the natives using them and pining for the return of the GIs
President Truman and other WWI veterans remembered this. The sudden return of WWI veterans in 1919 and 1920 led to a surplus of unemployed workers in the 1920. It was the beginning of the Great Depression. To keep it from happening again Truman wanted Congress to pass the GI Bill to keep the veterans out of the labor market for awhile. It worked.
It's 2021 and we're still waiting on that "rising standard of living".
Awesome
It's amazing to know people & specifically the government was cognizant of the post war waste yet not many people (specifically within the government) are aware of this & if they are then you'd think there would be bipartisan support for reducing costs & waste. Granted there is some nuance & major differences but the conclusion is the same
Good find. I didn't know people at the Pentagon had such vision at that time, I guess I'm still stuck with the image of the TV comedy "The Pentagon Wars" (which can usually be found on youtube too) where fraud and spoilage are rampant.
You always know this happens, but it is amazing when you are faced with it.........Millions of dollars in late 40's, no telling what it will be like now..
I always thought that the burning of the PT boat fleet was a sad waste when they could have been of use to the locals of the Philippines.
javamann1000 Yeah, they could have used them as floating brothels for underage girls
Most of the boats, particularly the oldest PTs, by wars end had been driven into the ocean and were worn out by use and the harsh environment, they were burned because they were never meant to last forever. They were stripped of everything usefull then the hulls were torched. Sad but true, the PTs were intended from the start to be disposable at the end of their lifespan.
They wanted to sell them other boats commerce rules
The locals did have the opportunity to buy $1 jeeps though.
aaarrrggh. I always wondered what became of the PT's. For some reason I'd never read that they were burned. Imagine having one...opening up those Packards
Can you imagine what some of that stuff would be worth if they just hauled it all to the Desert to sit until now. it would be worth 10 times of what it cost back then. Restorers would go wild. It would even had to been stored with any real care. Most of that stuff they scraped can not be found anymore.
In New Zealand, the best paying job my dad ever had was sitting on an old beer crate with a chisel and wire brush to clean the rust off all the anti-submarine nets that were pulled out of the harbour after Japan surrendered. The nets were then put into storage. I assume they have been scrapped many years ago now.
"Created *during* World War II. Unfortunately, the Periscope timeline seems to block the production date, which would be nice to know.
Gotta be stoned to really appreciate this documentary.
May 1968 in Vietnam I got to eat ham and eggs scrambled in a can from 1951 it just wasn't right
So did I in 1969! Cigarettes were really dry and horible from the accessory packs.
Funny how things have changed since WWII.We still have the M16 series as the M4 or M16A4 as our standard service rifle since the 1960s.The M1 and M1A1 series from the late 1970s to 80sto become the A2 and future series in the 90s and early 2000s and present.Along side other equipment and uniforms have been updated for troop use.Communications have been updated in leaps and bounds within the Infantry aside from material means since 9/11/2001.I saw this all the time until my deployment for combat to Iraq in 2006 till 2008.We still keep items that have proven themselves in combat and upgraded them since till present.
The US eceonomists found a solution: Just stay in a state of war at all times!
great old film//
War profiteering in a nutshell: sell to the government war materiel, when the contract get cancelled, buy back at reduce price all those resources, at the expense of the tax payer.
Just a thought: cost of warehousing so much matériel versus the surplus market value in 2017? Eg. today's selling price of something as small as an M1 Garand, beaten all to hell with the barrel shot-out. Just contemplate how high the price on the market might be for an unissued one. How about a tank or a Liberator, a Jeep, duce and a half, just about anything? I'm not suggesting it would be a cost effective move because I have no knowledge of these things but I am curious. Any thoughts?
Scarcity is an important component in appreciating the $ value of anything. Unearthing a cache of a 1000 unused M1s might very well ruin their collectability.
I would have loved to be there after WWII with all this surplus.My Dad and his buddies bought each 2 Jeeps still in crates as assemble your own and in parts.They bought each for $100.00 back then and put them together on the weekends when they were not at work.This was 1947 and advertised in Popular Mechanics on the back pages.The old Army jeep was our family car up until 1969 two years after i was born.Dad was a cheapskate!We even had thousands of 30-06 rounds in the house to shoot Dad's M1 Garand and crates of .45 ACP for Dad's 1911A1.pistol.Dad made us go to school using M1945 Packs as school back packs for our books.We ate out of stainless steel G.I. mess trays for dinner and used them for family get to gathers and picnics because they would us kids to clean them easy.Us kids had grey Army steel wall lockers for closets,steel bunk beds in our rooms to sleep on.On camping trips we used Army mess kits for eating even at home.We even wore M1943 suede infantry combat boots which lasted for decades until i grew up.Dad also gave us M1943 entrenching tools and Army surplus picks and axes to dig out tree stumps in the neighborhood for all his friends.I came to appreciate Dad's thinking after i grew up.I still have my ALICE gear and Iraq issued MOLLE stuff for emergency gear in my truck.I still have a supply room of stuff i collected during my 23 years in the Army.I still say Dad was still a cheapskate!!!I am waiting for a basic M1114 Troop Carrier for my family car as a spare for my Chevy Colorado.
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I saw the collapse of the aerospace industry in L.A. County. The Cold War was over and thousands of specialty shops, often family operations, lost their livelyhood. That was a lot of skill sets lost forever.
Haven't watched yet, but I am going to assume it is going to say:
"We took all the chemical weapons, and explosive materials and sprayed them on your food, you are welcome"
They conveniently did not disclose about war profits.
We decimated Germany and Japan. There's our profit.
Woohoo.
Shake_N_Bake we even paid back the foreign banks that lost money on German loans thru the Marshall plan. America a bunch of suckers.
4nukr8r making a profit is not a crime.
depends , Ethical profit is a blessing , but unethical profits becomes the prime objective to wage a war .
with the amount of green wool socks made, sheesh....you'd think that supply would have lasted til the year 2000
There were so many surplus Jeeps that back in the early 1960s they were selling them disassembled for $100.00 brand new still in the box.
My father said you could get brand new surplus 1911-A1s for $25. through the NRA. A lot of arms and ammunition was dumped in the ocean.
The Normandy invasion should have been a spectacular defeat of the
Allies, except for the incredibly inept German high command leadership from Hitler on down, not to include Field Marshall Erwin Rommel. Who had ordered ten infantry
and five artillery battalion's to defend the Normandy beaches. Though the
bloodshed at Omaha, Utah and the rest of the beaches was appalling, only two German battalion's defended their positions because Rommel's orders were not followed. Had fifteen battalion's been available to defend the beaches, it is likely that the Normandy landings would have failed - with considerable consequences
for the Allies’ ability to link together the British and American beaches.
I remembering seeing video of Jesse James of West coast choppers fame showing off some of his WW2 scores from a decommissioned aircraft carrier. Special metal forming machine tools used by tradesmen to form alloy panels for the damaged fighter aircraft all done in-house on the ship. All that hardware and skill is long gone now.
Freedom is just another word for nothing else to lose.
9:56 is that one of the first slings made of webbing ?
I'm reminded of that bit in "Band of Brothers" where the GI's berate German POW's. Say hello to Ford, General Motors, Westinghouse. You are still using horses.
Let's clear up a lot of "myths".....(1) Not all military gear, etc needs to be dumped. A lot can be warehoused for future use (i.e., belts, canteens, helmets, etc). None of these items could be considered "obsolete." Also, a lot of the gear can be used again and again (tools, dies, etc) in the construction of present (and future) gear such as tanks, half-tracks, etc. There will be some gear that won't ever be used again (dies, lathes, etc) that is used on items (aircraft, weapons, etc) that will no longer be constructed yet, many of the replacement parts can be shipped for storage, in the event that parts are needed. We have "bone-yards" for aircraft, "mothball fleets" for vessels, :"motor pools" for vehicles, "ammo dumps" for ordnance. To dump it is wasteful and stupid. CASE IN POINT: World War 2 is over.....a lot of gear is dumped. Korean War breaks out.....now there is not enough gear standing by for such an event. THEREFORE: If the spare gear was sent to central warehouses (1) West Coast (2) Central U.S. (3) East Coast for inventory control and reissue at a later date, a lot of money can be saved by avoiding having to re-manufacture it. I myself have seen military purchased gear at swap meets.....we pay top dollar to get it and we practically give it away.....only to have to produce it again. Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
there was a documentary on that I saw last year....warehouses full of stuff.....but the supply chief said the same thing: they ramp up production then the shit sits around for a while then gets tossed because it becomes obsolete. Like when some knob behind a desk decides to change the camo pattern....then every article of clothing with the old pattern on it has to be replaced.
If you get into detailed accounts about the beginning of the Korean War, its pretty obvious the US military trashed way too much stuff. There was a strong belief that future wars were obsolete because of the atom bomb. Obviously those "visionaries" didn't have a crystal or even a in-depth understanding of human behavior.
More powerful weapons have never deterred humans from killing each other. Whether its rocks or rockets mankind will use whatever is available. We in 2017 are in no way any better than any ancestors even though there's a lot of delusional people who think they are better.
The camo/uniform example is one tiny reason that companies charge so much to deal with Govt contracts. The Fed govt is a royal PITA to deal with so the govt has to pay more to get companies to cooperate.
In ww2 Australia troops were issued with many ww1 surplus gear including biscuits.
The SMLE from ww1 were regarded as better made than the new ww2 ones
How do you find all these films?
Good question! We retrieved a huge number of films from the trash when the U.S. Government unceremoniously threw them away. Since then we've worked hard to buy up whatever we can. We also receive donations of films from veterans, and the public-at-large, and loans from institutions such as museums and libraries that are eager to preserve movies in their possession.
+PeriscopeFilm Wow, why wouldn't they archived and digitalised that? I'm very pleased that you recovered that and posted that on TH-cam. Thank you very much!
three in Boston / Charlestown , only one working that serves Old Ironsides and near my House in Quincy a few Bigger 'Clyde"s were until the yard closed completely about 20 years ago, they were taken down and sold to work somewhere . they are all Electric But in Boston / South Boston there is a huge one and two others that work now and have Diesel Engines that drive Generators to power tham , they still have the original Rheostat type Controls. dont know the make but the other two are the same make & model as those in Charlestown.
My second job in the 1940's Navy was to toss surplus material into the deep six off the coast on Rhode Island.Complete tool boxes with the tools still wrapped in protective covering.Spent a week doing this as they unloaded a ship in the harbor. I did NOT understand it due to being from poor parents but I do now and yes it is a waste .In my eyes then a terrible waste.
Thanks for your service to our great nation sailor!
Ironically it was postwar Japan that invented lean manufacturing technologies, so there isn't massive waste and warehouses full of unusable parts when production orders change.
The horrible cost of war. This is where out National Debt came from, folks.
The Revolutionary war debt was paid off by about 1830 . Bushes 8 years added 5.8 Trillion, Obamas 8 years added 9 Trillion in debt. It is almost 20 Trillion today. Gee I guess all the cash for clunkers helped? The last 8 years debt added was like all the other President's debt combined, ie giant doubling of the debt. Is going from 10 Trillion to say 19 Trillion good for Obama's record? Maybe if Hillary got elected she could double it too say 40 Trillion? It is not all war, freebies have a cost too. The elephant in the room is school debt too. It use to be nobody got any loans but school was not as expensive. 2 of my cars that should have been crushed since old and lemons got ZERO with Obama's cash for clunkers program. Thus folks with working far better cars got cash to have their cars crushed to add to the debt too. insanity.
My Grandfather told me about how the ships loaded up planes and tanks in Europe at the end of the war and then dumped them into the ocean on the way home. I was astounded at the amount of waste. Why not just just melt all that steel down again?
"Jam Handy reminds you to always store your preserves in a convenient location"
Produced by the automotive industry, and around 15'20" *peace and prosperity* shows a roadway full of automobiles -- this a decade after the tire and auto industries had begun their successful campaign to destroy mass transit (trolley and rail) infrastructure. Contentious, yes, but evident to those in cities only beginning to recover in the 21st century. Wiki in an article carrying a caution for spotty documentation:
"In 1949, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, GM and Mack Trucks were convicted of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to local transit companies controlled by NCL; they were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the ownership of these companies. The verdicts were upheld on appeal in 1951. GM was fined $5,000 and GM treasurer H.C. Grossman was fined $1. The trial judge said "I am very frank to admit to counsel that after a very exhaustive review of the entire transcript in this case, and of the exhibits that were offered and received in evidence, that I might not have come to the same conclusion as the jury came to were I trying this case without a jury," explicitly noting that he might not himself have convicted in a bench trial."
Natewtl concludes remarks here, asking "Why didn't the judge nullify the jury's decision?"
Wow that was painful
Did anyone notice all of the American made machine tools being used in this film?
Unfortunately most of these companies are no longer in business.
Few people got rich outta this no doubt!
fuzzy wuzzy That's so hot, babe!!
Big words little man!
pweter351 h
Whomever helps us win deserves the profits.
This should be called the aftermath of WWI...
anyone know what those vehicles are at 1:51?
They look like gun carriages to me. They carry the shells for cannon.
WAR ~ *We* *are* *Right!*
Yep just as I thought war is good business for some people .
wish i had a few of those scrap harleys
gotama420 I'd kill for one of those and a willy's jeep.
they used to be for sale with Jeeps for $200 in the back of comic books and
Popular Mechanics , Assembly required
I am from the city of TELERGMA, I am looking for videos of the American army, the French army and the English army when they were in the city of TELERGMA, please help me.
where is all this surplus now bet still have half of stored away.some of the highest quality raw materials were part of that surplus
Terrible the huge cost of war and after that...
i hope we figure this out soon
Today we just start new wars. No surplus!
What plane is that around 2:42?
P-40 Warhawks I believe...
Thank you
Russian lives, German over extension, Japanese miscalculation, and American production won the war. With a slight emphasis on American production.
A lot of people had things they couldn't have had otherwise due to remarketing of war assets. Everything from clothes to old barracks houses. Remember that jobs were scarce and many people weren't well off at first when they came home from the war. When the postwar economy revved up there were more people with better jobs- but surplus goods were still a bonanza for sportsmen and hobbyists alike.
It's a shame America chose the wrong side to fight with.
Paul. WHAT would You rather have the .U.S. done.?? Fight against whom.?????
John Rogers Fight the communists instead, as Patton wanted to do at the end of the war with Germany who were in fact fighting the communists already by 1939. The Japanese were a different case and the US should have fought them, as of course, the US did. If you look into who started the war in Europe (not speaking of the Pacific war which had a different cause) and why and I do not mean a superficial look, you'll come to a greater understanding of what was happening in the years from 1918 to 1939 - it makes fascinating reading.
back then they all had a underlying agreement to be rugged and typical.
You can save some of the re tooling for civilian production by re branding the military products to civilians. "Have you been saving up to buy a car when the war is over, why not buy a tank?" They could add a few fenders, a little chrome and paint it in some civilian colours. "Buy now and get an M2 browning for free, perfect for quail hunting" They could also remove the wings and put those bomber bodies on a tank chassis and make an all terrain RV. Stick some of the surplus guns on it to get them out of the inventory.
i think you can still buy WW2 sherman tank periscopes today.......70 year old surplus