A U.S. Army Sergeant at a blackboard explains the concept of moments in mathematical terms to a classroom of soldiers. Next, soldiers are seen in a shop equipped with electronic equipment. An oficer watches as a soldier removes a motherboard from a bank of early computers. As the officer refers to a wiring diagram, the soldier checks the board. Scene changes to outdoors where several infantrymen are seen running alongside an M4A3E8 76 mm armed Sherman tank, as it climbs up from a ravine and moves forward. Next, two views of a Flame Thrower Tank M67 are seen as it fires a jet of flaming fluid. Field artillery pieces and tank guns and machine guns fire and destroy various targets on a field. A soldier presses plunger to remotely launch a tactical rocket. More views of tactical rockets being fired. A mushroom cloud created by the explosion of a tactical nuclear weapon. Camera pans over a variety of Army artillery, tanks, self-propelled guns, missiles and other field weapons.
United States Army soldiers' uniform in the United States. U.S. Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks about soldiers' uniform in the earlier days. Caps kept on a table. A soldier in a uniform. A poster for the U.S. Army.
The Big Picture telecast in the United States. Animated globe rotates. The U.S. Army presents the Big Picture which is an official report for the Armed Forces and the American people.
People celebrate in the United States. Costumed people parade and dance in the street (possibly Mummers parade in Philadelphia). Women models in swim suits walk on a ramp during a beauty pageant. Paul Whiteman conducts his jazz orchestra. Women dancers in swirling gowns.
Lifestyle of American soldiers between the World Wars. Soldier sounds bugle on a field in the United States. Soldiers leave their tents. Soldiers loaded on covered wagons pulled by mules. Army vehicles operating during training. Soldiers on firing range. National Guard and Army Reserve personnel referred to as "Civilian soldiers." They eat in their camp. They enjoy ice cream cones. They play Army band instruments while some of them dance and a soldier plays the saxophone.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses officials in Germany. German military aircraft in flight . Bombs falling on targets. German troops march through streets. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at a desk in his office, signs the Selective Service Training Act of 1940. Officials mix serial numbers in a glass container. President Roosevelt announces the serial numbers of the men drafted into the U.S. Army. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets await the announcement. Selected men are shown in all places and in all walks of life, in the United States, including an African American man. The men undergo a medical and physical checkup at the induction center to begin service as new military recruits. Those inducted receive basic training and begin tours of duty in the U.S. Army. (World War II period). Background music during recruitment scenes is a chorus singing "This is the Army Mr Jones" by Irving Berlin.
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