history project 40's-final

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Title: RFAAP Historical ProjectDates:

Comments: 40s

VIDEO AUDIO(40s montage, 5-10 sec extremelyquick cuts, end with 40s graphic)

Mt Rushmore M2 001233

Manufacturing shotsGeneral People in streets shotM5 000357

Nazi and Japanese stuffM5 NEWS REVIEW 2 001210Jap reps, carriers 001252

Wash DC shots M1 US Capital 000210M1 Good US footage 000620

Pearl Harbor montage M5 Pearl Harbor001259

Radford stuff

The 1940s began with the

country recovering from the

depression. The dark clouds of

Nazi and Japanese aggression

were spreading through Europe

and in the Pacific. The United

States struggled to stay out of

these conflicts but everything

changed on December 7, 1941

with the Japanese attack at Pearl

Harbor.

(Nat sounds up)

The country was now at war. A

year earlier the government

signed a contract with the

Hercules Powder Company to

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Jap planes attackBattle ragesGerman tanks, blitzkrieg 001845

Artillery 001907Pacific campaign, map 001952Marines land Quadalcanal

Good war stuff002930

Radford scenes/War footage

War footage and/or Radford manufacturing

(maybe a split screen)

Radford footage

Bold graphics to support facts590,000,000 pounds of explosives

Nimitz were commanding our

forces overseas, the Radford

Ordnance Works was operating

at break neck speed to support

the war.

(Pause)

In addition to making powder for

various guns and cannons,

Radford also produced powder

for mortars and rockets.

(pause)

Designed to produce 300,000

pounds of powder per day, the

facility actually produced 500,000

pounds a day at its peak and in

total, produced over 590 million



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Communist flag

Korea shots

Radford

Statue of LibertyM1 Good US footage 000620

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threat of Communism , The Cold

War, and the Korean Conflict.

The Radford Arsenal would once

again become critical in the

defense of the Free World.



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