A Big Picture production about use and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Sergeant Stuart Queen at a desk as he speaks about the importance of marksmanship. A reconstruction depicts soldiers loading shells in a canon. A soldier with a rifle. An old U.S. flag with 13 stars flies from a pole. The Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. Exteriors of the armory and a sign reads '1794'. A sign reads 'Museum'. The original Blanchard lathe at the museum. Billinghurst Requa Battery gun at the museum.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. An enactment shows two men carrying rifles. A hunter uses a duck call sound to call birds. Birds in flight. Men fire rifles to shoot the ducks. Men fire rifles from bushes. A hunter retrieves a duck in shallow water. Another hunter carries two ducks across a field.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Rifles being manufactured at the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. Men work on machines at the armory. A man operates a barrel straightener machine. Parts of rifles being assembled. A man inspects the receiver of a rifle. A rifle being test fired at the armory. German aircraft in flight as they drop bombs over cities in Europe during World War II. Civilians run for cover during an air raid by the Germans. United States Congress ion session. The Japanese attack the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December, 1941. Explosions occur during the Japanese air attack.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Past events depict smoke rising from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii after Japanese attack of December 7, 1941 during World War II. American soldiers fire machine guns during the war, from a jungle area in the Pacific. The soldiers run through muddy waters. Sky filled with parachutes, as seen from the ground, as U.S. Army paratroopers descend and land for an airborne invasion. American Army Infantrymen on a snow-covered landscape in Europe fire M-1 rifles at enemy German positions during World War 2.
Soviet soldiers in the Soviet Union during World War II. Exteriors of a building. An artillery emplacement. A trail moves past the emplacement. Soviet officers confer at a map. A camouflaged soldier amidst trees. The soldier runs across a field and fires.
Views about 10 months into the German siege of Leningrad in World War 2. Isaakievskiy (St. Isaac's) cathedral and other buildings on Vorovsky Square (Isaak Square) in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) as viewed from Mariinsky Palace. (They appear relatively unscathed.) The Monument to Nicholas I is in the center. Boats and ships are docked along the Neva River. Two youths stand atop a building and look at smoke rising across the river from buildings being shelled by German forces. Closeup of buildings being destroyed by German shelling. A small boy helps pick up rubble from the streets. A woman is helped to her feet by a Soviet soldier. Scenes of destruction everywhere. Broken windows, stones falling from buildings, an abandoned doll on a window sill. A dead child lying on stairs. A woman weeping. A young boy holding his hat in his hands and looking sadly in mourning. A mother with a baby. People standing about in sorrow and shock. 14-inch Soviet coastal guns firing, from under camouflage netting, at German positions.
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