Joe makes a mad dash for home

Joe's story continues as he makes a mad dash from Nevada to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, dodging MPs along the way.

Videos used in this story:

24s Get Back

This film presents a look into the effectiveness of the B-24 Liberators and the men who flew them. The film highlights the ability of this particular bomber to withstand punishment and be brought back to safety by its pilot and crew.

April 1943 Newsreel

Part 1, shows Pres. Roosevelt at camps and airfields. Part 2, aircraft carriers are used to transport army planes. Part 3, allied troops bomb and capture land in Tunisia. U.S. and German tanks battle. German planes attack U.S. positions. Army nurses evacuate wounded soldiers. Personages: Gens. Eisenhower and Patton, Gens. Montgomery and Harold Alexander, and Gen. Henri Giraud.

This Is The Army

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones staged an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WWII his son Johnny Jones, who was before his father’s assistant, gets the order to stage a new all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his personal life, he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.

Let’s See Chicago

This film, Let's See Chicago presented by the Santa Fe Railroad to promote trans-continental travel. It takes viewers on a trip to Chicago from Los Angeles beginning at the Union Station in LA.

Pot O’ Gold

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst enemy because of their love for music and an in-house band that constantly practices. Soon, Jimmy finds himself trying to help the band by getting them gigs and trying to reconcile the family with his uncle, an avid music hater, all while winning the heart of the beautiful Molly! Stars James Stewart, Paulette Godard, Charles Winninger.

The Last Voyage (trailer)

After a boiler explosion aboard an aging ocean liner, a man struggles to free his injured wife from the wreckage of their cabin and ensure the safety of their four-year-old daughter as the ship begins to sink.

The Story of Willow Run

Made by the Ford Motor Company during WWII, "The Story of Willow Run" explains the company's role in producing the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber.  Narrated by Harry Wismer, the film explains how Ford manufactured and built B-24 Liberators under license from Consolidated Aircraft Company. Production rates were so great at the plant that a new B-24 rolled off the production line every 55 minutes.

Launching of Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary

This silent Cine-Kodak newsreel film from the mid-1930s presents the building and launch of the passenger liner RMS Queen Mary. The film contains some wonderful images of the John Brown & Company shipyard at Clydebank in Scotland.