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Shakedown cruise of Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677). Practice firing against surface target.
Crew aboard U.S. Destroyer Escort USS Frament (DE-677), load and practice firing at a floating target. Crew fires deck guns, launches torpedoes and depth charges, and fires "hedge hog" bomb clusters. Shells hit water surface and explode. Aerial view of large explosions in water. (World War II period).
Letters sent to soldiers by "V-Mail" Victory Mail in United States.
Woman seated at desk writes a letter to her husband in the army. Animated map shows the distances of troops in different places of the world. Army truck unloads sacks of letters from Unites States Aircraft. Board of 'Photo Mail' and 'V Mail' (Victory Mail). Machine prints these letters and men arrange the letters. Soldier distributes letters to troops. Soldiers aboard tank, beside artillery, digging in trenches, and other soldiers read letters. (World War II period).
Gun carrier tanks on field test fire in United States.
New Gun carrier meets army test. Gun carrier tanks on field test fire in United States. Tank descends from hillside. (World War II period).
Preparation of penicillin drug at laboratory in United States.
Penicillin drug saves Allied forces lives. Women fill bottles with liquid penicillin. These bottles are sterilized in large ovens. The molds are incubated in bottles. The liquid is poured from the bottles and then powdered. Bottles filled with powdered Penicillin. (World War II period).
Demonstration of rocket principle in nature using plants, the cotyledons frees with a jerk when disturbed in United States.
An animation showing mountain peaks and 20 km marked on a vertical line. Picture of sky with moon and stars. Animation showing distance between moon and earth, 400000 km marked on a straight line plotted between moon and earth. Demonstration of rocket principle in nature using plants. Cotyledons of a seedling is touched from among a pot of seedlings. The cotyledons frees with a jerk.
World War II Training film about U.S. Marine artillery units preparing for amphibious operations.
U.S. Navy World War 2 training film about artillery in landing operations. Opening scene shows a marine reading artillery settings aloud. Then gunners load their 105mm howitzer and fire it. Next scenes show more howitzers in a field also firing. View of a control tent, where marines wearing headsets communicate with the howitzer batteries. The batteries receive the instruction: "CSMO" (Close Station March Order). Firing ceases and gun crews police up their positions and board jeeps to their command post. One the way, one marine sitting in the back of an MZ jeep, talks on a TCS radio. At the Command Post, several battery leaders meet over a planning table where they receive orders for an amphibious exercise. Amphibious vehicles (DUKWs) arrive, equipped with A-frames. Film shows how the A-frame is set up and employed to raise a howitzer. Then another DUKW backs under the suspended field piece which is lowered into its cargo space. Other guns and DUKWs arrive to repeat the process. Gunners are shown spreading a tarpaulin and placing it on their howitzer, in the DUKW, as extra protection against water. Other DUKWs arrive with the battery's howitzers and marines rig tarps on them as well.