United States Army Quartermaster Corps overseas supply procedure in the United States during World War II. A pictorial representation of supply for troops overseas shows filler depots, ports of embarkation and overseas bases. Operations at a port of embarkation. Boxes of supplies stacked at the port. The supplies are moved by a crane. A form being filled out. Men hauling carts in a filler depot. Boxes of supplies being loaded into rail carts. Rail cars moving with the supplies. Several ships at the port. Men carrying supplies move onto a ship. Corps at portholes of the ship. The requisition form received from the overseas base at the port of embarkation. The requisition is being approved by officers at the port. Rail cars moving with supplies. Trucks moving on a road. Ships at sea.
United States Army Quartermaster Corps overseas supply procedure in the United States. A pictorial representation of Quartermaster Corps overseas supplies reaching a port of debarkation. Quartermaster Corps unload supplies from a ship. A crane carrying loads of supplies at the port. A pictorial representation of Quartermaster Corps running the system of supply through communication zone to combat zone. Quartermaster Corps in a combat zone. The corps in a line beside a truck. The U.S. Army soldiers line up to take a shower. A train moving on a track. Trucks moving on a road. Boxes of supplies waiting to be picked up. The corps standing beside the boxes. Representation of a base depot near a port of debarkation where more perishable items are stored. Meat hung in the depot. An open air depot where less perishable items are stored. Stacks of materials in the depot. A truck moving away from the area. A pictorial representation of supplies being taken by rail, truck or boat from base depots to advance depots. Dummy depots to confuse enemy aircraft. Pictorial representation of supplies being taken from advance depots to regulating stations to maintain the regularity of supplies to combat divisions. Rail cars moving on a rail track and people in view. Representation of supplies being moved to a rail head. The supplies are moved from the rail head to the combat zone and by trucks to division distributing points. (World War II period).
Clip opens with brief World War I scene, circa 1917, of new American army recruits receiving army uniforms being issued by a U.S. Army Quartermaster. Clip then covers U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps' combat operations in various Theaters of Operations during World War II. Quartermaster Corps soldiers with rifles under the cover of a military truck during battle. Troops in trucks. An aircraft in low flight over a field. A U.S. Army truck. A Quartermaster fires an anti aircraft gun. Explosions occur and smoke rises. A British tank in a field. Soldiers beside a truck. Cans and barrels stacked on the ground. An enemy German tank in a field. Soldiers take cover. Quartermasters with guns in a trench. They come up the trench in prone positions. Dramatized battle scene with several Quartermaster corps casualties beside a wire fence. Soldiers prepare a mortar gun. An anti aircraft gun on an army truck. A soldier takes aim and fires a rifle during training. The Quartermaster flag hoisted on a pole. Actual footage shows aerial view of Bataan, and then ground views of groups of remaining U.S. Army soldiers around time of surrender of Bataan in April 1942. American soldier seen with their hands up and under guard of Japanese soldiers during Bataan surrender. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in North Africa. Supplies being offloaded at various battle fronts of World War 2. Soldiers and supplies off-loaded on the beach. Quartermasters seated on supplies boxes. Landing crafts arrive at a beach in the South West Pacific. Troops move across the beach. Troops disembark from landing crafts and move across a beach in Sicily, Italy. The Quartermasters unload boxes of supplies during various beach landings. They unload supplies and fire artillery on a beach head in Italy. Troops in trucks. A convoy of trucks loaded with supplies. Ammunition, ration and personnel in trucks move from Algeria to the Tunisian Front. Explosions occur and smoke rises. Trucks advance through smoke at night and in difficult conditions. Quartermaster General Major General E. B. Gregory speaks about the Quartermaster Corps. He says that the Quartermasters distribute goods to the army during training and combat. The movement of the Corps should be so regulated so as to deliver the goods at the right time in the right quantity.
United States troops battle German soldiers in Salerno, Italy during World War 2 invasion of Italy. U.S. soldiers advance along a street and fire at German positions. U.S. troops fire mortars. Smoke rises from shell explosions. Italian civilians cheer as U.S. troops enter Naples. Food and drinking water is distributed by U.S. troops to Italian citizens including women and children. Smoke rises from exploding German mines in Naples several days after liberation. A wounded civilian sitting at a sidewalk. Wounded soldiers and civilians are treated by U.S. medics. U.S. Army engineers walk through rubble from bombing in the Italian city. View of Combat Infantry Rifle Badge of the U.S. Army.
U.S. pilots in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu during World War II. A U.S. Navy F4U Corsair parked in a sandy area. A pilot jumps down from the cockpit. The airplane captain greets the pilot. The captain stands near the tail section of the airplane. A small dog sitting on the tail of the aircraft. VMF-214 pilots (unit nicknamed the "Black Sheep") are briefed in front of an operations office by United States Marine Corps Major Gregory Boyington (nickname "Pappy". He was an ace pilot, had been a Flying Tiger, and was later awarded the Medal of Honor). The pilots running off after the briefing. They enter the briefing room. They run from the room outfitted with their flight gear. Pilot Boyington climbs in the cockpit of F4U aircraft. Palm trees in the background. Another pilot in a cockpit puts on headgear readying for takeoff. Pilot Bill Case (William N. Case), VMF-214, putting on a helmet. He buckles a chin strap. The aircraft taxis on the airstrip.
U.S. pilots in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu during World War II. Wounded pilots in a hospital bed laughing and applauding. American singer Lieutenant Lanny Ross entertains the patients. A patient lying in a bed with an arm in sling. Other patients in bed watch the show.
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