Guards of the King, The Corazzieri, special force of 100 men undergo training in Italy. They jump over from a high stone wall and perform stunts on horseback. Officer on horseback with his troops. Italian ready to escort the sovereign. Troops march on horseback with flag in hand.
Italian Fascist Premier Benito Mussolini reviews the troops in Rome, Italy. Troops on horseback, blow bugle. Italian Army troops march with flags in hands. Soldiers march on ground while Benito Mussolini reviews them from stand. Troops on vehicles tow artillery. Tanks advance. Cyclists ride bicycles followed by troops. Soldiers load artillery. Men patrol on snow covered area. Soldiers aboard ships. Fleet of aircraft in flight.
Animated map shows Italy and Yugoslavia. United States aircraft makes an emergency landing at an airfield. Airmen speak with the pilot. Engineer inspects aircraft wheel. Number of airplanes parked on the ground. Engineers check the aircraft engine. Yugoslavian ships bring food for the Yank Island. Soldiers unload goods from ship. Troops disembark from a B-47 aircraft. Man gives hand signals. (World War II period).
Experimental activities of United States Army Air Force in the Mediterranean. Air Corp personnel look at shell. Airman fires at shell placed on tire for target practicing. Bullet holes on the shell. Airmen hold model of German B-1 Aircraft. Aircraft drops bomb over target. (World War II period).
The Ledo-Burma road shown on animated map of China and India. The Ledo Road or Stilwell road (named after General Joseph Stilwell) under construction. Chinese man takes picture. Workers fall trees. Crane uproots tree and clears the area of debris. Rocks blasted and bridge built. Chinese engineers work inside a large pipe.
January, 1945, on the Western front during World War 2. Troops of the U.S. 8th Infantry Division test new white camouflage coveralls for use in snow. They patrol in snow covered forest areas on the Western Front. A sergeant makes outdoor field adjustments to the coveralls using a knife and captured German sewing machine. He helps a soldier who tries on his new coverall. The material used is from old mattress covers. Several soldiers are seen putting on the camouflage coveralls. Scene shifts to U.S. troops with a jeep towing a 20mm Italian dual purpose gun for use in Germany. On January 2, 1945, they set up and fire the gun at targets a half mile away. In Belgium, U.S. Army engineers of Company B, 238th Engineer Battalion, improvise remote controlled bazooka shells as road blocks. They set them up on fence posts and fire them by ordinary flashlight batteries. U.S. soldiers from a Signal Company of the 99th Infantry Division are seen using a Weasel vehicle (officially designated an M29C light cargo carrier) to lay communication cables through snow in the 1st Army Sector, Belgium. Views of the wire spool on back of the weasel, and soldiers pulling wire from it.
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