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Trainees in a contaminated area during a gas obstacle course at Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A signboard reads 'Station No.4, Reconnaissance for samples of vesicants'. Trainees on a woody terrain where the enemy has shelled with an unidentified gas. A trainee collecting a shell holder and testing it for contamination. The trainee then takes a soil sample in a bottle for analysis and wraps it with a wax paper to prevent leakage and burns. The trainee squad moving through a contaminated area. An explosion of mustard gas in the area. Soil, plants and trees are contaminated. The squad wearing impregnated coats moving through the contaminated area. View of shoes of the trainees covered with particles of mustard. The squad beside a wire fence entangle. The squad moving through trees to the next station in the course. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066400
Trainees reach the end of a gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A signboard reads 'Station No.6, Pursuit of enemy thru gas'. Trainees approaching a wire fence entangle in a woody terrain. The trainees moving on the ground through a cloud of smoke beneath the wire fence. An instructor throws a grenade beside the wire fence. The trainees emerging from under the wire fence. Clouds of smoke spread in the area and surround the wire fence. The trainees crawling under the wire fence, protects them from simulated enemy machine gun attack and also helps them to undergo a difficult situation. The trainees emerge from the wire fence and advance through the woody terrain. They climb over a series of wooden walls among trees. The trainees advance. A group of trainees sitting in an abandoned German trench. An officer sprays chlorine gas from a cylinder. The trainees get up in the trench, wear their masks and climb out of the trench. They get under a wire fence and crawl beneath the wire fence entangle. The trainees get out of the entangle and advance among the trees. They approach another wall. The trainees climbing over the wall to the other side and reach the end of the course. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066401
Trainees undergo a medical check up and take shower at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. Trainees undergoing a medical check up at a first aid station after going through different stations during the gas obstacle course. Medical attendants carrying a trainee on a stretcher. Another trainee being checked at the station. The trainee being carried on a stretcher. The trainees are waiting in a line and are issued chemical intelligence forms. They sit on the ground and complete the forms. The trainees receiving instructions from an instructor. The trainees remove their impregnated clothing and take bath under an improvised shower. The trainees get dressed in clothes brought from a decontamination counter. Views of officers spraying gas from cylinders during the course and the trainees moving through clouds of smoke among the trees.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066402
American jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong performing in a bartender role, singing "I can't give you anything but love."

African American jazz trumpet player and singer Louis Armstrong in the United States. Louis Armstrong, playing the role of a bartender, in the film Jam Session, with several actresses sitting at a bar. He sings "I can't give you anything but love." Louis Armstrong 'Cocktail' written beside the rack on a mirror. Louis Armstrong holds the arm of one of the women and sings. View of Louis Armstrong speaking and reflecting on that time (circa 1960).

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066562
Experiments are undertaken by scientists and doctors during the development of nutritious food for soldiers in the U.S.

Scientists determine nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers during World War 2. Conscripts receive medical examination by an army doctor before going into the U.S. Army. The new recruits holding documents waiting in a queue for their turn to be weighed on a scale. An officer seated at a table. Two military draftees talking. Members of a U.S. Army Combat Service Support Branch, the Quartermaster Corps, cutting meat for preparation. A table set for soldiers with tea cups arranged and fruits in the center. The soldiers seated at tables and having food. Quartermaster Corps serving the soldiers. Scientists in a laboratory studying food that will impart energy, strength, and improved performance to the soldiers. A soldier seated at a table and a member of the Quartermaster Corps measuring out rice into a bowl that a soldier would have to have to provide the same nutrition as in his military rations. Dr. Ansel Keys, a scientist at the University of Minnesota, seated at a table and vitamins kept on the table for the soldiers. Narrator mentions that the German military supposedly has a super man vitamin pill. Doctor dispenses vitamins from a box. Doctor measures the strength of a soldier who has been taking vitamins. Doctor gives a soldier more vitamin pills. Two seated soldiers open tins of vitamin pills. Soldiers sleeping in a room maintained at a certain high temperature during an experiment to determine what foods are best for various climates. Soldiers carrying rifles walking on a treadmill. The amount of perspiration is measured.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066585
Vitamin-enriched food is prepared by Quartermaster Corps for U.S. Army soldiers in World War 2

Nutritious food for U.S. Army soldiers in the United States. Scientists undertake experiments in the University of Minnesota for the development of nutritious food for American soldiers during World War II. A woman monitors tubes in a laboratory experiment. University of Minnesota physiologist Dr. Ancel Keys, who heads the experiments, speaks seated at a table. He says that if a soldier has vitamins and no food he would still starve. He says that it is not vitamins or pills that imparts energy but nutritious food in a wide variety. Few men in a bread factory taking vitamin enriched flour and using it to bake bread for the soldiers. Men kneading dough and arranging it in a tray. A man keeping the tray in an oven. Two men beside the oven. One of the men takes the tray out from the oven with a gloved hand. Quartermaster Corps cooking fresh food for the soldiers. Menu for the soldiers is prepared by a nutritionist. A Quartermaster Corps soldier beside him. Vegetables, fruits, milk and eggs are purchased in vast quantities by army officers and civilian experts. Cattle moving in herds. Quartermaster Corps butchers seen at work butchering and hanging meat. The soldiers debone the meat and other food materials are dehydrated for easier shipping. Eggs are examined for dehydration, yolks are separated from the whites and put through a drier. Pure yolk powder is made. Vegetables go through equipment to maintain their color, taste and vitamin content. Men working at a quartermaster laboratory.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066586