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Company E, 1st Training Regiment trainees at a Service Club dance party and recreation area at Fort Dix in New Jersey, U.S.

Recreation activities for trainees of Company E, 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. A trainee meets his girlfriend. They talk and dance. The trainees dance with their girlfriends at a Service Club dance party. An orchestra plays. A trainee's parents and his girlfriend visit him at the training center. They go out for a lunch. They visit the recreation area and go out for a drive. Trainees at a swimming pool, a golf course and a library.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073549
Company E, 1st Training Regiment trainees learn to advance and fight on a battlefield at Fort Dix in New Jersey, U.S.

Trainees of U.S. Army Company E, 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. A trainee and his family look at the Ultimate Weapon statue on the parade grounds. Trainees climb on obstacles and do drills during their physical training. They learn to advance and fight on a battlefield. They relax under a tree after their training. They attend a church service led by an Army chaplain. Trainees walk and arrive at their center in a line. They relax in their rooms.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073550
A Battalion Commander awards a soldier and pins a marksmanship badge on the graduation day at Fort Dix in New Jersey, U.S.

The graduation day of Company E, 1st Training Regiment at Fort Dix in New Jersey, United States. Soldiers lined up on a field on their graduation day. Soldiers to receive awards march and report to the Battalion Commander. The Commander presents honorable degrees to two soldiers. He awards a soldier as the outstanding trainee and pins a marksmanship badge. The Battalion Commander and other officials at the graduation day parade. The Ultimate Weapon statue on the parade grounds.

Date: 1955
Duration: 3 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073551
Boxers fight in a ring. A U.S. Army Master Sergeant speaks about fire power and research. He points at models of missiles

The "Big Picture" public film by the U.S. Army. In it Master Sergeant Queen speaks about the use of fire power by the U.S. Army in defense of the United States. Boxers fight in a ring. Spectators cheer for the boxers. One boxer is knocked down and counted out. Then scene shirfts to U.S. Army Master Sergeant Queen speaking about the defensive fire power of the U.S. Army being like a "knock out punch.". He points to models of missiles on his desk, including models of a U.S. Hermes A-3 Missile and what appear to be a Cruise missile and an air defense missile.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073552
Leap of human weapon development from Cave men to current-day missiles

Development and use of fire power in the United States. Film begins showing a series of U.S. Army missiles being fired from silos and others from inclined launching pads. View of an atomic bomb burst (in a test). An Army Redstone missile being fired and burning through clouds and finally disappearing in the distance. Sketches of cave dweller humans from antiquity embracing the earliest of weapons, like clubs.

Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073553
Sketches and pictures depict development of military fire power from slings to breach loading weapons

Development of U.S. Army fire power in the United States. Sketch of Biblical story of David and Goliath, emphasizing the sling as an extended weapon. Sketches of other examples, such as catapult, where a sling is employed as weapon. Sketch of sword and shield used in combat. A man aims with a crossbow. Another uses an English long bow. Drawings of progression of developments in artillery, from the earliest days. Illustrations of small arms developments. A man loads and fires a gun. Sketches of Continental Army using artillery during Revolutionary war, in America. Sketches of French soldiers using artillery in Napoleon's army. Drawings of weapons being used in the American Civil War. Soldiers load and fire cannons on a battlefield. A breach loading weapon.Photograph of Civil War era Union gun crew with field artillery piece. A mobile field gun with 25 small bore barrels. An early gatling gun. Sketches of U.S. artillery being used in Spanish-American War.

Date: 1955
Duration: 2 min 58 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073554