U.S. officers General George C Marshall, HH Arnold, Brehon Somervell and Lesley J McNair seated around table and discussing map in Washington DC, USA, during World War 2. U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill at a meeting in Casablanca, French Morocco.
U.S. Army officers seated in an office in Washington DC. The army officers in a conference. Brigadier General C.D. Young, Chief of Service of Supply Lieutenant General Brehon Somervell, Brigadier General W. A. Styler and Brigadier General L. Lutes seated at a desk. They discuss amongst themselves. A wall map in the background. Lt. General Lesley James McNair, Lt. Colonel F. L. Parks and Brigadier General Mark Wayne Clark seated at the desk. Lt. General McNair signing papers.
In a dieting voluntary program an overweight sergeant and other men on low calorie dets eat celery and otehr vegetables in the Army mess at Fort McNair. A card on the table reads 'Diet Table'. The slender Army men feed on high calorie food, with plates full of food, as they sit directly across from those dieting.
Soldiers go through the assault course with gas masks, under fire, at the U.S. Army Ranger Combat Training School in Fort Shafter, Hawaii, during World War 2. Opening scene shows several trainees in gas masks carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, advancing through rough terrain in which tear gas fumes are seen. Closeup of one soldier, wearing steel helmet and mask, but otherwise stripped to the waist, as he bayonets a stuffed dummy target on the course. He uses his bayonet on another dummy that drops down on him as he scrambles out of a tunnel. Views of other soldiers passing through the same portion of the training course. As they leave the tunnel, they encounter more gas that billows across their path. Change of scene shows the soldiers climbing over obstacles placed in their path. Closeups of some trainees scrambling over obstacles. Some soldiers are seen crawling as camera pans to sniper firing from a palm tree. Next, they must traverse another obstacle and engage two more dummies with their bayonets, next to barbed wire fence. As they pass a steep hill, an explosion occurs raising smoke and causing rocks and dirt to fall down towards them. Next, they must make their way along a ravine lined with barbed wire. One fires his rifle. Closeups of several trainees climbing out of a water filled ravine and crossing a stream on makeshift footholds. Soldiers must run on a log to cross a creek, as explosive charges explode around them. They emerge from a tunnel and charge up a steep dirt hill to encounter another dummy to bayonet. Film ends displaying a sign that exhorts soldiers to embrace killing and reminding them survival requires that they KILL or be KILLED. It is signed by Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It ends: "WE are not going to be killed!"
Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair visits the Twentieth Army Headquarters area. General McNair arrives escorted by other officers at the headquarters and visits various tents in the area. He talks with other officers.
The White House, the residence of the President of the United States, and the area near it in Washington DC. The Potomac River and other buildings near its bank including Fort McNair. A U.S. Marine One helicopter flies over the river heading west. Various federal buildings along the banks and ships and cargo at the shores of Potomac. The flying Marine One approaches the Washington Monument and the White House.
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