The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps delivers laundry and myriad other services in the South Pacific during World War 2. Opening scene show a cartoon sign by the 464th Quartermaster Laundry Company featuring Bugs Bunny in a jeep pulling mobile laundry equipment in wagons. Next, U.S. troops are seen in jungles subject to rain and mud of the South Pacific. A soldier crouches in a riverbed and washes his clothes. A mobile laundry installed near a river. Soldiers using washers and dryers in the facility. Views of larger fixed installation Quartermaster laundry, such as in New Caledonia; Fiji; and the New Hebrides. Quartermaster salvage and repair workers operating sewing machines as they repair military clothing. A sign identifies "Island Quartermaster C&E Repair Shops" (Clothing and Equipage Repair Shops). Here workers sort, repair, and remark sizes on salvaged clothing. Two workers sit in a mound of garments that they cut into rags and toss into a heap behind them. Two workers repair broken shoes. Soldiers' feet seen walking through mud. A stack of army shoes needing repair. A team of army workers using modern machines to repair them. View of finished shoes, as good as if repaired in the U.S.A. Sign identifies Orthopedic Department where a man works on specially designed and fitted shoes prescribed for an injured soldier by a medical officer. A nurse and a doctor place the special shoe on a patient. A nurse assists the patient to walk. Typewriters needing repairs line shelves. Technicians are seen at work stations, repairing typewriters. The final sequence begins with a sign reading: "Tent Repair, Drive in here. All tents must be clean, dry, and folded properly." Quartermaster workers raise a tent inside a shelter and then identify and repair a hole in it by applying fabric glue and a patch.
Opening scene shows German shephard puppies and their mother in World War 2. Several dogs and their handlers are seen. A dog being aggressively trained by a heavily padded trainer inciting the dog to attack him. Scene shifts to a sign reading "40th QM War Dogs" (40th Quartermaster War Dog Battalion).It is on a rustic compound fence in a jungle area of the Pacific. Dogs here are not aggressive, but are trained to be alert reliable companions to their respective handlers. Next, several soldiers and their companion dogs are seen walking along a jungle trail. Scene shifts abruptly to a completely different aspect of Quartermaster activity: Graves registration. Army pallbearers carry a fallen soldier on a stretcher, covered with an American flag, into an established military cemetery in the Pacific. Soldiers commence burial procedures. Views of the cemetery from a structure therein, showing numerous white crosses, and an extremely tall flag pole displaying the American flag. Scene shifts, to Quartermaster troops assembled in a chow line, as a bugler blows. Two GIs eating by a large tree.
U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. U.S. soldier is wearied after exercise wearing gas mask . He is tired and sits besides tree after 15 minutes of exercise. He takes off his gas mask and lights a cigarette. In contrast, a company of soldiers returning from a five mile hike in gas masks show no undue weariness.They remove their helmets and masks and appear fine. A platoon commander inspects his troops wearing gas maskes, prior to entering a gas chamber for training.
U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. Troops, in training for chemical warfare, wear gas masks and enter a gas chamber in the United States.One soldier lacks confidence and must be encouraged to enter the chamber. Soldiers come out of the chamberand remove their gas masks. The reluctant trainee is now enthusiastic about the experience.
A division commander of Chemical Warfare Service tells assembled World War 1 trainee soldiers that, properly trained, they should be able to perform their duties, in simulated combat, for at least one hour, in full protective gas masks, without loss of efficiency. Soldiers seen training in field wearing gas masks. Officer in charge of gun crew is wearing new diaphragm microphones so that gun crew can hear while wearing their gas masks. He drills gun crew with commands.
Chemical Warfare Service training in the United States during World War I. An officer addresses a group of soldiers, giving last minute advice as they prepare to depart for active combat in France. He discusses persistent and non-persistent agents and conditions of temperature inversion favorable to gas attack.
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