A training film in the United States depicts training of soldiers in the army. The soldiers getting off a train. They board army trucks with their personal belongings. A soldier performing an interior guard duty outside a building. The soldiers marching along a field and digging foxholes. A tired soldier sits near a foxhole. An officer orders him to go on with the work. He again digs the foxhole. (World War II period).
A training film in the United States depicts training of soldiers in the army. An officer instructing the soldiers about map reading. The soldiers sitting around him. The soldiers lined up. An officer inspects them. The soldiers practicing with rifles under camouflage. Physical training of the soldiers. They run through obstacle courses holding rifles and other weapons. The soldiers lying in prone positions fire rifles. Smoke rises from the firing. A board outside a building reads: 'Post Exchange'. Two soldiers standing outside the building and talking. The soldiers inside a building having drinks and hamburgers. Other soldiers seated on the ground and talking. The soldiers in a recreation hall, others watching movie in a theater and some dancing inside a hall with women. Exterior of a church. The soldiers entering the church. A board reads: 'Library Chaplain's Office'. A soldier talking to a chaplain. Interior of a Red Cross building. A soldier talking to an officer. Men and women inside a club. They dance and enjoy. Two of the soldiers discuss about army jobs. Soldiers digging foxholes in a field. (World War II period).
Film titled 'The Air Weather Service of the USAF.' Clouds in the sky. Aerial view of a flooded area. U.S. F-4 phantom fighter airplane lands using drag chute. F-100 aircraft refueling from a KB-29P tanker aircraft. C-130 aircraft dropping paratroops. Flight of 4 F-4 aircraft in formation. A B-52 bomber in flight. A rocket climbing after launch. A helicopter hovering over a river. Briefing underway with Air Force personnel of Air Weather Service of the Military Airlift Command. Various means of gathering weather data all over the world about temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed and visibility. Data collection devices shown at various airfields or air bases. Radars in operation. A Military Airlift Command Weather Service C-135 airborne, collecting weather aloft. Arctic weather station. Aircrews getting weather briefings from Air Weather Service meteorologists. Headquarters of U.S. Air Force Japan, 5th Air Force.
A United States Air Force Weather Service meteorologist points at a large synoptic chart and briefs about the weather, while being recorded and broadcast via television. USAF operators in a control tower as an airplane lands on a runway. To provide information to the pilots observation stations of the Air Weather Service are located at the end of the runways. A man enters an observation station. He works on equipment. Voice messages using pre recorded words translate machine weather data into understandable information for pilots.
Sign reads "Welcome to GAFB, elevation 504 feet" on the Base Operations Building at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. View of exterior or Operations Building. View of a radar screen is shown as narrator discusses expansion of radar network for gathering data. Improved radars are shown being used for routine observing and reporting. A Vertical Viewing Radar unit is shown at the air base. An Air Force weather technician records readings.
A snow covered area. Transportable weather stations being used according to requirements. These mobile units can be transported anywhere. A man gets inside a weather station. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Parachutes being dropped from the airplane. A soldier stands holding an air balloon. Another soldier stands nearby. Humidity, temperature and air pressure are being measured. A rocket being launched for the purpose.
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