U.S. soldiers demonstrate decontamination of a combat tank at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. A tank moves on. Two soldiers decontaminate the vehicle using a spray. One soldier stands on the tank and decontaminates it. Under carriages heavily encrusted with mud. Two soldiers spreading lime on the ground. A tanker passes through the lime mud slurry. Two soldiers spraying a tank with high pressure water to remove mud from the under carriages. Now they spray the tanks with lime. A water tanker arrives. An aircraft passes over at a low height. A heavy smoke screen in the background. Soldiers wearing cellophane cover. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers train for decontamination of combat vehicles at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Soldiers during a decontamination procedure with real mustard gas. The soldiers in armored vehicles. A group of soldiers prepares for the decontamination. An aircraft flying at low height. A stationary U.S. Army Pershing tank. Two soldiers in a jeep. Soldiers wearing gas masks decontaminate a vehicle. Victims of a mustard gas shoot in France during World War II. Medics treat the victims in a field hospital. The victims with persistent gas burns.
U.S. soldiers demonstrate chemical warfare and decontamination at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. An aircraft generates a heavy smoke screen . Another aircraft sprays the smoked area with a chemical. Soldiers on a half track put on cellophane cover and masks. They then attack the aircraft. The cellophane and the combat vehicles are heavily contaminated by the chemical. The soldiers remove the cellophane cover and throw them out. Soldiers take on decontamination procedures. (World War II period).
Opening scene shows a U.S. Army M3 Lee tank moving toward the camera, with a crew of two women, one in the top turret and the other in the lower turret (which does not show a gun). Women are seen working on various manufacturing tasks. One uses a sewing machine One loads powder into a shell and operates a machine press to compress it. Several women install noses on shells. Some work on large shell casings. Others examine and test small arms. One tests fires a Browning M-19. 30 caliber machine gun. as others test fire rifles. A woman is seen test firing a Browning M-1917 heavy machine gun. A battery of Anti-aircraft guns is seen raising its barrels and firing. A woman manipulates the controls of one. Women hold their ears as they test fire a 90mm anti-aircraft gun. A team of women carries a part for an artillery piece and screw it in place. Two women carry racks of artillery shells, that they load into an anti-aircraft gun. As the gun is test fired, they and a soldier with them hold their ears. Women work with pneumatic tools on the tread of an M3 Lee tank. One uses a long wrench to tighten a bolt. A woman poses in the top turret of the M-3. Two others climb aboard and close the hatch behind them. With two crew members seen in hatches, the tank drives past the camera. Final image is a woman holding two large artillery shells. (World War II period)
'Women at war' Women test tanks at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland. Women manufacture war equipment like shells at a war plant. They pile up shells. Machine guns and rifles fired by women during a test. A 19mm anti aircraft gun tested at the proving grounds. A woman drives a tractor and women work on a tank.
Comparison tests being performed between British Centaur Cromwell tank and U.S. M-4 tank at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. The tanks are rolled on various types of surface such as concrete, mud and sand to compare their maneuvering capabilities.
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