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U.S. Army Signal Corps officers train at Fort Monmouth and production of signal communication items in the United States.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. U.S. Army Signal Corps officers train at the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Officers train at telegraph machines under the supervision of an instructor. Officers seated at desks in a classroom. Instructors take classes with the help of charts, diagrams and black boards. Officers seated atop electric poles for training. Two officers train in hand-to-hand combat at the OCS. Officers learn to use Radio Relay. Students listen to an instructor as he demonstrates the process. A U.S. soldier lays field wire across a hilly terrain to establish wire communications in the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers on the hill. Soldiers set up a sending station at the point where the wire can't go forward. A receiver is set up at the point from where the wire can go forward again. A soldier receives a photograph of a map through facsimile. Items of signal communication including radio relays, receivers, walkie-talkies, radio boxes and fuses to be produced and distributed by the USA Signal Corps to all other ground forces, navy and the Allies. New, modern, improved efficient signal communication equipment. A soldier displays two old type fuses and their counterparts.
U.S. Army Signal Corps communication material and equipment is produced and distributed in World War II.
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war, especially during World War 2. Workers organize and prepare signal communication material and equipment for transportation. Men transfer the items including wooden cartons, cables, signaling units in trolleys. Workers load the material into trucks. Shuttle ships in docks. Signal communication supplies for U.S. and Allied troops in the European Theater loaded onto the ships. The shuttle ships make their way under security in heavy seas. A Nazi U-boat wolf pack in the water during the early stages of World War II. torpedoes launched and U.S. ships are attacked bu the German submarines, smoke due to the explosions. U.S. sailors on board and jumping from burning ships into water.German wolfpack submarine fleet in a harbor. German Kriegsmarine sailors lower German Neger torpedo-carrying craft (sometimes called Human Torpedo) into the water. A U.S. B-25 bomber aircraft in flight locates a German submarine. The radio operator gives the exact location and the submarine is attacked. View from within cockpit as bomb sight is fixed on German submarine target. View of bomb doors open and bombs away from B-25 aircraft. Explosion in water is seen and the submarine is hit. Dramatized scene from inside of submarine as it is rocked by explosion and fills with water.
Army Air Force general speaks about KB-700 Lancaster Bomber
Audio largely unintelligible. United States Army Air Force general seated at a desk talking about the Canadian KB-700 Lancaster Bomber program during World War II. Map on wall of European Theatre of Operations. Flag of United States is visible in the back.
Technician demonstrates the expanding and closing sidewall canvas of Sherman Tank Duplex Drive at a factory
Sherman Medium M4 Tank Duplex Drive. The Sherman DD- A report to the Commanding General, European Theater of Operations. Sherman Duplex Drive (DD) in water. Four soldiers on Sherman. Sherman covered with canvas. Technician at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory works on the Sherman. Gauges on tank. Machines on tank. Canvas side wall goes up. Technician puts struts into place. The canvas expands. He pushes a lever and the canvas goes down. Barrel of artillery visible. He turns its barrel. (Note: filmed at Metropolitan Cammel Midlands factory, Birmingham, England who built and designed the DD equipment to be fitted to U.S. built Sherman tanks. As it is a prototype, the air controls are not in the same place as on production machines.) (World War II period).
Nazi planes follow a German battleship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Naval combat in European Theater during World War II. Two Nazi torpedo bombers in flight follow a German battleship. Ship's Captain on board the battle ship looks through binoculars. Sailors run on the flight deck of the ship to their battle stations during an emergency. Sailors climb up the ladder. Naval artillery turned to a different direction. Sailors put on their gas masks.
Nazi plane and Kriegsmarine ship lay smoke screen in the Atlantic Ocean.
Naval combat in European Theater during World War II. Two Nazi Naval officer on board a Kriegsmarine ship as a German pilot salutes them. A Nazi biplane float plane takes off from aboard a German battleship in the Atlantic Ocean. Plane in flight. German aircraft lays smoke screen as it leaves behind a smoky trail. German ship also lays smoke screen. Smoke covers entire area. Smoke over the Ocean water.