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A 1943 film promoting the U.S. Army Service Forces and the importance of Logistics in World War II

A stream of U.S. Army trucks heads along a highway as opening slate rolls, emphasizing the importance of logistics to wartime operations. Two U.S. Army small hatch M4 Sherman tanks (Possibly Ford built moels M4A3) rush down a hillside toward the camera. View from atop a tank with Browning M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun installed. It heads uphill, firing rounds from its gun, raising explosion of earth ahead of it. Barrel of a 240 mm howitzer gun swings up in front of the camera. A U.S. coastal defense gun firing from a fort. Rear view of 240 mm Howitzer being fired. Towed field artillery pieces being fired. Troops near water, firining a Bofars 40 mm anti aircraft gun. A U.S. soldier firing a Browning 1917 water cooled machine gun. A B-17 bomber in flight overhead. View of a bombardier at a Norden bomb sight inside the B-17 with his finger on the bomb controls. The bomb bays open and bombs fall, seen striking in a line on the ground. Ground level views of large explosions on the ground. A tank camouflaged in underbrush, firing its gun. A small hatch Sherman tank charging the camera. Several German Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft flying fast and low on strafing runs. A soldier firing an antiaircraft machine gun. Closeups of three Messerschmitt Bf 109 aircraft attacking at high speed, only several feet above ground. Bombs bursting in a field where a soldier in lying next fo barbed wire. A tank knocking trees over as it emerges from woods. Infantry following tanks across a field. A series of scenes showing armor and infantry charging. In one, troops are wearing gas masks. A huge explosion in a field. Paratroopers inside an airplane connect to a static line and jump from the plane. Lines of parachutes fill the sky as paratroopers jump from C-47 aircraft. Closeup of paratrooper as he descends and hits the ground. View of Polish cavalry riding in a loose formation. German gun crew fires at Polish city. Smoke rising from burning buildings. Norwegian flag flying over a fort in Norway. Views of German Ju-52 aircraft in flight over Athens, Greece. It flies over the Parthenon and other ancient buildings. German tanks and troops entering Belgium. Troops marching in Yugoslavia. The American flag flying over Bataan. Civilians grieving over dead in Poland. Dead victims of war in Norway, Greece, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Singapore, Shanghai, and Mandalay. A group of civilians grieving over two dead children. The German (Nazi) flag flying from a flagpole. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062661
German and Japanese forces capture towns; Allied workers make ammunitions in factories (WW2)

German forces during remilitarization of the Rhineland: German Army supply wagons and German soldiers cross Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany, to reoccupy Cologne and the Rhineland on March 7, 1936. Change of scene to Japan in late 1930s. Emperor Hirohito of Japan inspects troops on his white horse, Shirayuki. Japanese soldiers bow in front of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Japanese men holding banners. Japanese soldiers and cavalry advance. Japanese soldiers stand in formation and march on a street. Japanese Navy officers view a map or chart and discuss their plans and strategies for attack. Japanese soldiers fire artillery and other weapons in battle. Japanese war production worker in munitions plant making shells. Change of scene to American workers in war production factories in the United States making shells, bullets, and various munitions during World War 2. Elevated view of large American tank factory floor with many Army tanks being assembled. War production workers building Army trucks and new trucks being driven off of assembly line. Rows of U.S. Army tanks and artillery on the ground. U.S. Army soldiers board a troop transport ship. A submarine is spotted by a sailor. A hand presses a button to launch torpedoes to attack a ship. View through periscope as torpedo moves just below water surface toward target. View in open water of torpedo moving through water. Torpedo strikes a ship and explosion rocks ship. Formation of torpedo aircraft and dive bombers in flight over an area. Ships on fire with black clouds of smoke rising above. British navy sailors firing anti aircraft guns from a British ship. Sailors and officers aboard ships watch enemy airplanes through binoculars. U.S. Navy sailor manning a machine gun aboard ship watches the skies overhead.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 27 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675062662
U.S. AAF aircraft in flight. Rotating top gun turret. World War II in England

Scenes from filming of "Combat America," with U.S. Army Air Force personnel, during World War 2, in England. U.S. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight with sun streaming through clouds behind it. B-17 in flight over water and then climbing rapidly. Separate sequence of views, from inside an airplane, of engines and of upper gun turret rotating with gunner inside. (These may have been taken in a B-24H equipped with Martin A-3D top turret.) Two U.S. P-47 airplanes fly past the bomber as it cruises.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062862
Several views of P-47s and B-17s in flight during World War II in Europe

Two U.S. Army Air Force P-47s fly past overhead. Clouds in background. Aerial view, from below, of U.S. AAF B-17s in formation overhead. Brief glimpse of a B-17Flying Fortress in flight. Clouds behind it. Scenes filmed incident to making of "Combat America," during World War 2, in England.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062864
Waist Gunner firing from the U.S. AAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft, during World War II.

Waist Gunner firing single shots and short bursts from a B-17 Flying Fortress airplane. Two B-17s flying in formation. View of ocean. Scenes shot during filming of "Combat America,." during World War 2.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675062866
United States Army troops arrive in France ready for combat during World War I.

United States Army troops arrive and join with French forces during World War I. Open troop Trucks filled with American soldiers arriving in French town during World War 1. One of the soldiers clowns around, hanging off the truck. U.S. troops, armed with rifles, in a deep trench, watching one of their comrades firing his rifle over the top. Soldiers firing a Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun and a Vickers Mark I .303 water-cooled machine gun. French troops firing 320 mm railway guns. Artillery shells bursting on ground. Mortar Crew puts on gas masks and fires mortar. Artillerymen firing 155mm Howitzer M1917A4. Shells bursting on target in distance.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072382