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Montage of scenes involving military equipment and operations emphasizing signal corps communications
'The Signal Corps Fights' depicts the role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Montage of military equipment and combat scenes (some staged). Opens with glimpses of: massed formation of U.S. Army soldiers; similar formation of bombs in a munitions factory; row of P-47 fighter planes parked on an airfield; a huge radar antenna; battery of U.S. 120 mm M1 anti-aircraft guns; troops marching toward the camera; Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft dropping bombs, that explode on the ground; formation of German He 111 bombers in flight; U.S. battery of 120mm anti-aircraft guns firing; gun camera views of U.S. fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground, and attacking a German Messerschmitt bf 109 head-on (The tail is blown off and the pilot bails out at the last instant); fire engulfing some soldiers. Next, a soldier is seen at a large signal corps field telephone switchboard, and other communications switchboards are shown with operators. Momentary glimpse of troops, ostensibly engaged in combat. A soldier communicating from under a camouflage netting, and one holding a rifle and talking in a phone as he strings wire from a spool in his backback. A german soldier ostensibly cutting a U.S. communications cable that he discovers in the field. A U.S. soldier crawling along the line to find and repair the damage, followed by a staged "attack" by the German soldier. They engage in a knife fight. Soviet infantry advancing on the Eastern Front. Soviet T-34 tanks advancing. Soviet soldiers engaged in combat. An unusual U.S. tank with two guns, and side protection over track wheels. M3 Stuart light tanks going down hill with infantry in france during World war 2. Hand of signal corps soldier using a key to send morse code message. Soldier in bunker using field telephone. Signal corps soldiers communicating with field switchboards during combat. Momentary glimpse of German Messerschmitt bf 109 and another aircraft speeding past. Bomb exploding. Huge clouds of black smoke billowing, behind camouflaged German military vehicles parked. Twisted frames of German wrecked vehicles and rail cars. Huge number of German soldiers marshaling to retreat from advancing Allies. German officers conferring.
U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps prepare mortars, fire anti aircraft guns, and provide supplies during World War II.
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 front in Tunisia. 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.
Vidkun Quisling reviews police volunteers in Norway; Vichy French troops review in Versailles; Latvians and Lithuanians under German forces (WW2)
Minister President of Norway Vidkun Quisling addresses police volunteers in Norway during World War II. French volunteers are inspected by a General in Versailles. They march and enter a building. Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German Army service on a train for Germany. They arrive at a railroad station with their family members. They board the train and wave hands towards their loved ones.
United States Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bombers operating at RAF Hardwick, England, in World War II
Film opens showing several Consolidated B-24 Liberator bombers, of the USAAF 93rd Bombardment Group, taxiing on the airfield at RAF Station Hardwick, in England, during World War 2. Numerous views of United States B-24 Liberator aircraft taking off, landing, and flying in formation over the aerodrome. Various examples of nose art and airplane names are seen. Among these are: a B-24 named 'Shoot Luke'; and another named 'Ball of Fire Junior'. A third B-24 is named 'Heinie Hunter'.
U.S. Air Corps Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. presents medals to crew members of the Memphis Belle
Officers and airmen, of the U.S. 91st Bomb Group, stationed at RAF Bassingbourn, England, stand in formation, in class A uniforms, in front of the B-17, Memphis Belle. Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell, Jr. presents the Silver Star medal to two staff sergeants of the Memphis Belle crew. Pilot Robert K. Morgan of the B-17 Memphis Belle receives the distinguished Flying Cross, as does a technical sergeant, and another staff sergeant and an officer crew member. View of the medal recipients lined up together. A military band playing on the airfield. The British RAF flag flies over the airfield. (World War II period).
German artillery fired at Russian front during World War II.
Axis troops during World War II. German soldiers load shells in an artillery and fire at Russian front. Shells explode at sea. Russian soldiers run for their lives. A Russian tank burns. Russian soldiers lay dead on a beach. Soldiers on boats at the beach. Russian tanks in water demolished by German fire.