Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A pilot in a 1917 uniform walks up to a French Nieuport fighter aircraft. He checks the propellers and the engine of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis. The aircraft makes low passes over a runway.
Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain in a 1917 pilot's uniform walks up to a French Nieuport fighter aircraft. He wears his flying jacket, a scarf and a helmet.
Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain wearing a 1917 pilot's uniform approaches a French Nieuport fighter aircraft. He does a preflight checking of the aircraft. He takes off his officer's hat and puts on a helmet. He gets into the front cockpit of the aircraft.
Evolution of United States Air Force uniforms in the United States. A captain wearing a 1917 pilot uniform checks the propellers of a French Nieuport fighter aircraft. He does a preflight checking of the aircraft. He takes out a jacket from the aircraft.
American soldiers are assembled on outdoor stands on a sand beach in World War 2. Next, soldiers are seen climbing down rope nets on a stand designed to simulate leaving a troop ship. Brief closeup of some of the soldiers descending the nets. Change of scene to a sandy area shows soldiers in a simulated landing craft rushing out of it in a practice drill. Soldiers in wheeled vehicles simulating landing craft armed with machine guns. Troops, in live fire training, crawl over water-filled ditches as a trainer fires a Browning M1917 30cal machine gun across the area. Shells bursting in the area. A soldier stretches himself in prone position across a barbed wire fence. Other soldiers climb over him to cross the fence. Several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for climbing a barbed entanglement.
images of Army Technical training manuals dealing with gas masks; camouflage; heavy tanks; and machine guns. U.S. Army Service Forces (ASF) recruits rushing down a hillside into waters of a swift river and swimming across. They undergo Live Fire Exercises near \end of their training. The must crawl while trainers fire rounds from a Browning M 1917 machine gun over their heads. An explosive charge goes off as the recruits crawl past. ASF troops are briefed about invasion techniques, by an instructor using a realistic small scale mockup of a port city. Recruits crouch over a model of front line terrain. Model trains operate as a training aid. Students at doorway of the U.S. Army School of Military Government. Numerous student studying in the library. In a classroom, a military officer instructor discusses the mission of governing an occupied country with cooperation of the existing governing officials. Closeups of officers discussing the occupation of Germany, at length. (World War II period).