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- A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
- Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
- Documentary focusing on the contributions to the American war effort of African-American soldiers.
- Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943.
- Documentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
- Donald Duck deals with income taxes and their benefit to the American war effort in this inspirational documentary short animated film.
- Part VII of the "Why We Fight" series of wartime documentaries. This entry attempts to describe the factors leading up to America's entry into the Second World War.
- Animated documentary promoting timely filing and payment of Federal income taxes, demonstrated by Donald Duck's difficulties with his tax return.
- A girl is desperate to get to Washington D.C. to be with her lonesome brother, a wounded G.I. She persuades Bing Crosby to let her join his caravan.
- Inspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air Forces.
- Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.
- Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in the Allied advance on Japan.
- Filmmaker John Huston narrates this Oscar-nominated World War II-era film about life among the U.S. soldiers protecting Alaska's Aleutian Islands.
- Documentary short film intended to drum up support for the Fifth War Loan Campaign. It shows a happy family in the future of 1954 enjoying the prosperity and advantages made possible by the successful prosecution of the war, and how the sacrifices of 1944 have made the world a better place.
- Animated documentary short film demonstrating the reasons and methods of the point system of wartime food rationing.
- Documentary short film demonstrating the process by which waste fats from the kitchens of American homes can be transformed into the raw materials for explosives for the war effort.
- Documentary depicting and explaining the Allied campaign against the Germans in North Africa.
- John Jones' (James Cagney) daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and contemplates how lucky he is in America, where no bombing occurs. He imagines "his baby" (Margaret O'Brien) suffering in the war-torn nations of England, Greece, China, Yugoslavia, France, and Russia, and thanks God that no harm has come to her. When he returns home, his daughter completes her recitation of the Gettysburg Address with her parents as audience.
- Tom Smith, an American pilot, is shot down and captured by the Japanese. While imprisoned and awaiting execution, he recalls his life at home in the USA.
- Government documentary short explaining the usage and distribution of feature films donated by the motion picture industry for viewing by American troops.
- Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.
- Well before he made the Westerns for which he would primarily be remembered, director Budd Boetticher put together this documentary of World War II's Battle of Okinawa from footage shot by Navy cameramen in the thick of the fighting. The vital editing skills Boetticher learned from Academy Award® -winning editor Barbara McLean helped him tell this complicated and protracted story with a directness and power that are both impressive and horrifying, as the soundtrack pounds with bombs and gunnery fire and the screen fills with dozens of Japanese kamikaze pilots deliberately crashing their planes into battleships and aircraft carriers. War correspondent Ernie Pyle makes a brief appearance, only weeks before he was killed on an island near Okinawa. - Marilyn Ferdinand
- The training and work of Cadet Nurses is explored in this documentary short film.
- Documentary short film revealing the vital work done by women in American defense plants.
- Documentary short film demonstrating methods used by the War Manpower Commission to resolve problems in worker shortages.
- Documentary short demonstrating the process of building a medium bomber for the United States Army Air Corps.
- Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
- Documentary short film depicting American Army, Navy, Marine, Air Forces, and Coast Guard joint assaults on a Japanese-held island.
- The story of the first bombing raid on Tokyo by B-29 Superfortress bombers of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Crews are followed from their training staging at Grand Island, Nebraska to their bombing embarkation point on the island of Saipan. From there, the B-29 attack on the Nakajima aircraft plant outside Tokyo is depicted.
- Documentary short film depicting government methods of detecting black marketeers during wartime rationing.
- Documentary short film depicting the work in a British armaments plant in which the night shift consists of women workers.
- Inspirational documentary short film featuring Hollywood stars promoting the sales of War Bonds through songs and skits.
- Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War.
- The defense industry during World War II put many towns in difficulty, due to the enormous influx of factory and defense workers. This documentary short film demonstrates how the U.S. government came to the aid of one such town and ameliorated the housing and health problems
- Documentary short film produced by the U.S. Army, intended to enlighten the American public on the final thrust of the Allied war effort in Europe and on the plans for the return home of American forces.
- Animated short documentary film made to advance the cause of a balanced diet for the benefit of the public health and for the advancement of the American war effort.
- The Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Forces is the subject of this documentary short film depicting the rigors of training cadets go through.
- Documentary short on American war production accompanied by Jan Peerce's singing of the title song by Rodgers and Hart.
- Documentary short demonstrating American reasons for interning Americans of Japanese ancestry following the outbreak of war between the U.S. and Japan.
- Documentary short film depicting the training of officers and regular seamen for service in the American Merchant Marine, the civilian defense shipping organization.
- Documentary demonstrating how power developed by the dams and power plants of the Tennessee Valley is used to support defense plants throughout the country.
- Documentary short film depicting the successful Allied advance into Rome, freeing it from German control during World War II.
- A young man and woman attend the movies and see a fund-raising short film starring Eddie Bracken. Bracken promotes the purchase of war bonds to support the last major push in the Second World War, the defeat of Japan. The man in the audience (also Bracken) seems skeptical and irritated by the pitch.
- Documentary short film depicting the successful but costly invasions of the Japanese-held islands of Guam, Tinian, and Saipan, in the Mariannas chain.
- This documentary short film describes the events in the lives of anti-Nazi German and Austrian concentration camp escapees who fled to England and joined the British army.
- Documentary short film depicting the work of the United Service Organizations (USO) in providing recreational and morale-boosting services for American troops.
- Short documentary extolling the virtues and necessity for women to participate in America's preparation for war, showing women working in scientific, industrial, and voluntary-services activities.
- Documentary short detailing the work and responsibilities of Civil Defense Air Raid Wardens
- Documentary short detailing the American soldier's part in preserving the fundamental ideals of this nation.
- Documentary short film promoting care in the prevention of forest fires.