Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. army training films to teach United States Army soldiers in World War 2. Demonstration of parts of an automobile distributor device shown closeup. Microscopic view of syphilis bacteria. A man uses pneumatic hammer on wood. Animation of pneumatic hammer drill demonstrating the use of the drill. Men of U.S. Army Signal Corps make a training film under supervision of a military expert. Cameraman and motion picture film camera seen in use in the field. Typist types a script for the same training film. Director and cameramen record. Editor assembles and edits the films, and is seen reviewing frames of the film and building film reels.
Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. Army training films. Demonstration on U.S. Army life as U.S. army officers talk outside a building and soldiers salute a Navy officer as he arrives. A soldier gets first aid from a medic. A captured U.S. soldier is being interviewed by Nazi German officials. U.S. soldiers enter a room and find a booby trap device set up by enemy to be triggered by an unsuspecting victim. U.S. soldier places the same booby trap device on an enemy motorbike. Motorbike explodes as enemy troops stand around the motorbike. (World War II period).
Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. Army training films to instruct troops during World War 2. Animated film depicts aircraft identification methods in World War 2 to distinguish between aircraft of friend and foe in flight. U.S. aircraft on flight line. Propeller of aircraft. Engine of aircraft. Instructor teaches men about electricity functions which demonstrates operations of a spark plug, radio vacuum tubes, telegraph fuse, and recoil mechanisms. Shows how signal communications are maintained by use of wire on field. U.S. troops drive army jeeps, tanks, and trucks. Soldier repairs a tank. Correct posture of a cavalry soldier while riding a horse. Barrage balloon in sky above a U.S. ship in harbor. Soldiers work on a balloon fiber and on folding a balloon. Demonstration to build a bridge and how to destroy it with demolition blast. Soldiers fire various artillery guns. Demonstration about rifle squadron maneuvers in combat. Animation depicts how Quatermaster Corps get supplies to field of action.
Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. Army training films. A U.S. military instructor reads from Field Manual 21-7 which contains list of several training films and their brief descriptions. Instructor makes notes at his desk. Instructor makes a phone call and screens a film, he selected. He makes notes while watching the film. Instructor speaks to a group of men seated in class who are to watch the training film. He outlines the significant points of the film. Men watch the film as general introduction of subject. It is explained why and the how the film is reviewed. Men at work carry out actual procedures they were shown in the film. It is explained when not to show the training film to troops. Troops march through heavy mud. Tired soldiers yawn. A soldier takes a nap while watching a film. An instructor in a training class. Trained troops march on a field. (World War II period).
World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Joe Louis(Barrow), escorted by Military Police, arrives for an exhibition bout and enters a ring at an Army base,in the United States during World War II. His opponent wearing a robe with "California Jackie" written on it, enters the ring, U.S. soldiers and WACs (Women's Army Corps) cheer for Louis as he arrives. Joe Louis holds a microphone and speaks to the crowd. The bout in progress. Louis' exhibition partner wears a protective helmet, as he boxes with the champion.
Sequence begins with views of German He-111 bombers in formation,during World War 2. Scene shifts to Squad of U.S. Army antiaircraft artillerymen surrounding a Sperry Gyroscope M7 director system control unit, in a sand-bagged position, as the soldiers train in the United States. View of a single He-111 is inserted. Battery of U.S. 90mm antiaircraft guns is seen firing under guidance of M7 director system. Scene shifts to a German Me-110 aircraft maneuvering evasively through flak bursts from antiaircraft guns, somewhere in Europe, during World War 2. Scene shifts again, back to Narrator describing operator actions in using M7 artillery control unit, as it is shown in images.