victory once more yes i was a minute man of lexington but don't think that was my last appearance i've been around when needed on the farm on the battlefield yes and in the factory i am the spirit of a free america i live today and mrs credible bust making beats for tires for buffer is gone beside her is the picture of her here he is when he visited his mother at the plant the last time he was home on furlough do you doubt that mrs boston puts a little extra care as well as a little extra hurry up into every bead in the rubber industry for example lessons learned in farmer days are now paying off in rugged combat tires especially designed to take it i'm also live in a mode finisher who used to cut mold for the big truck tires now through him i'm finishing them for have cracked for us folks who are used to bonding rubber to metal and with all our equipment the same machines that used to make the industrial solid rubber tires on metal were soon farming the channels and putting on the as in every department these workers to have a personal interest in the material they're turning out ot is hutchison has four sons in the service himself one of them now commands a tank in africa two others are in t you remember that these machinist for years have been building machines that build the tire metal workers we have about this as well as rubber workers and speaking of hasty shift overs one day these presses were making the average the next day they were making oxygen cylinders as pretty as you please stand list still cylinders on the ha strengthened with straps in both directions and the two halves welded together atomic say that these are the cylinders that carry oxygen for our flyers and make possible our high altitude bombers and fighters i'm here to in the world's largest production of machine gun clip more stamping machinery formula used for small metal parts on automobiles changed overnight to making metallic belt links for fifty caliber machine gun cartridges turning them out at the rate of thousands  a simple little thing here but did you know it took many years to learn to make them with a single stamping operation and they must be accurate to the thousands of an id for that reason they are each one inspected and reinspected and carefully packed you can count on these girls being careful many of them have husbands brothers or sweethearts somewhere at the front whose lives may depend on one of these clips they work like this just the links and the cartridges form about the boys get by proficient and throwing them together sometimes in the heat of battle and they go into the machine gun like this yes i get into working on some weird things i sure do believe it or not these are gasoline tanks for airplanes they're not like any gas tanks you ever saw you say well those funny shapes and sizes are made to conform to the type of plane they have to fit into in and around struts and braces and along the way using every inch of space allowed for instance this one is mounted along with several others in a consolidated bomber but their shape is not the only peculiar thing about the the kind that brings in a shot up plane like this one just back from germany with more than five hundred bullet holes in she brought home her crew while nine of the enemy went down in flames j b seaman in charge of building these bullet sealing tanks as a personal interest to his son norman rising young scientists jobbers big black gas things are doing the liars they say it was to get your parking this was just as important as mine another place i've been powerful busy it in a barrage balloon the part of it takes all for thirty six years he ran his own tailoring shop but after pearl harbor he got so mad he couldn't stand to out for the army he brought his shearers and his skill to akron and pitched in a balloon making it takes twelve innumerable pats pieces to form the body of a little when the seams are joined together it's partially inflated here is one of the government inspectors about to crawl inside air by girls or even doing this now those special red glasses he's wearing are like those of our night fighters they give you can dive so you can see in the dark the help around some of thomas edison's brightest light all over the outside while the inspector inside watches for even the tiniest pinhole another gas bag nearing completion soon it will be ready to hang protectively over by  objectives like this west coast aircraft plant our precious cargo ships in convoy as a guard against dive bombers now actually ropes play an important part and where there are rope you must have not fastening ropes to the outside minesweeping cruise for a while in this one and then he came to akron to supervise them not trying for the balloons to fasten the tiring as to the size of the balloons the ends of the where beings have to be individually afraid which reminds me all through the factory now you may glimpse things like this and unobtrusively that means only one good leg or like this of course you really don't need more than one arm for this job and i'm inclined to think maybe a man might be a better worker without his hearing in all this noise but the point is whereas industry started out to make it possible for these physically handicapped people to help themselves now it ends up that these handicapped people are helping their country in the plastics department where we used to turn out gadgets for radios an automobile now we're making plastic gunstock stronger than wood yet so much lighter to carry and easier to handle among other things we're also making plastic liners for steel helmets back of the battle lines they make welcome sunday and in the parks halls like it's not their water bucket but in battle they take up a lot of shock in those steel helmets and help send off many a bullet but if you want to see me really busy come around where we're building buffers any aircraft comes great gatlings goes thousands upon thousands of small parts have to be made fifteen hundred to a gun here machining a gun tool is isaac lewis eighty two years old i could retired once but the next morning after pearl harbor reappeared at the gate out i'm back in on the japs and nazis will quit before i do and we're like seasonal crops but like the steady flow of all man river rising to a flood from one side come the top carriages with girl electricians installing the wiring cranes pick up a finished carriage and carry it to meet the stream of chassis rolling up from the other direction the guns are mounted and controlled hooked up the gun rolls on into the spray booth to get into it was painted a curtain of falling  carries off the fumes while the make up a polygraph is applied then the inspectors take over here is a modern molly pitcher working a gun by remote control mary miller's husband one of the few men in the department cramped the colors of the holder son afloat for four hours till rescued in the south pacific when his ship the u s s astoria was sent down under and it was like having my mother's arms around me he said serious when he was followed home with his mother visiting the department where she works now deal wonder that mrs miller is proud and happy on her job and so does gun particular variation of the lifesaving equipment made in this department is the life vest or maybe west i guess they call them but i don't think she was the inventor and other important piece of inflatable equipment is a one man life raft for flyers and parachuters commonly known as paragraphs ocean blue while the top part is bright yellow that first some of the raft were all yellow so they could be seen easily from the sky but the sharks could see them too so we changed the bottom to blue and now when mr shark looks up looks to him the same color as they are the raft is packed in a special carrying case containing paddles they link up her first aid kit repair kit drinking water well he sets on it when one of our boys takes off on a mission over water in this war you know that his chances of coming back are all in his favor in the last world war when a man went into the a twist of the wrist and a cylinder of carbon dioxide inflates the ra but this is only the smallest boat instead of the close to one hundred percent loss of men down at sea in the last world war this time more than ninety percent of them are picked up seven and ten men rubber boat landing it was a medium size boat like this that saved captain eri rickenbacker and six of his crew through twenty one grenfell days in the pacific and has saved many another no less a hero here's one of them back with a message steady flow of machine gun clips and it was machine gun clips that helped the marines take rather a canal it may be only stamping simple strips of metal but those strips of metal go to provide the necessary reinforcement for oxygen cylinders without which the high level bombing of berlin would never have been possible it may be only tightening down in  day after day and yet that not may be a pride of a birth and so far as guns are helping to keep the skies clear of enemies over the world by perhaps it consists everlastingly on the job to win this war believe me i know i was there