View from aircraft-mounted camera. Aircraft approaches airfield where multiple enemy German aircraft lie. The aircraft strafes one of the planes on the ground. Scene changes to second pass over the field, where the previous target aircraft is seen destroyed and smoking. Aircraft fires on a second and third aircraft. Third pass over an industrial building, a second USAAF aircraft flies ahead, also firing at the building. Damaged buildings in the background. Additional passes are made to strafe enemy German bomber aircraft parked on the ground. Taken from aircraft of First Lieutenant H. F. Grenning, 434th Squadron, 479th Fighter Group, VIII Fighter Command, during WW2 in Europe.
Pre World War 2, overview of U.S. bayonet qualification course. Narrator describes the course as the visuals progress. View of a wide field with many wooden and straw dummies. Some of the dummies have cardboard circles pasted on them to provide targets for bayonet thrust. Some dummies have poles sticking out to force a parrying motion before thrust. Scene changes to a series of instructional graphics of the different training dummies. The narrator again describes which actions should be taken for each unique dummy type.
View of U.S. Army bayonet qualification course, pre WW2. A U.S. Army soldier lays prone at the starting line, springing to his feet at a command. He runs toward the first practice dummy and executes a parry and thrust with his bayonet. The soldier continues through the course, appropriately parrying and thrusting each type of dummy along the way. Additional medium and close ups of soldiers running through the course, attacking the straw dummies. A soldier lays at the start once again, and proceeds to run the entire course while the narrator describes his actions with help from instructional graphics. At the end of the course, the soldiers simulates loading and firing one round at each of two targets.
Demonstration of bayonet qualification course, narrator describes action during film. Soldier lays prone on the ground at the starting line, hops to his feet at the instructor's command. The soldier runs through the course, approaching each of eight different dummies and performing the required parries and thrusts. At the finish line, the soldier simulates firing his rifle at two distant targets, and an instructor clocks his time. The soldier and instructors walk back toward the start through the field of dummies. Pre WW2.
Training film of bayonet assault drill in 1938, pre WW2. A group of U.S. Army soldiers run through a field with bayonets pointed forward, a line of training dummies in the background. The soldiers lay prone in a grassy field, firing upon their mock enemy. Shot of the "enemy" soldiers, cowering in a trench to protect themselves from the gunfire. Now pinned in the trench, the group of soldiers in the field stand up to advance on the enemy with bayonets. The men charge the trench with bayonets at the ready. The "enemy" soldiers in the trench flee in disarray.
U.S. Military establishes new positions in the Aleutian Islands to support offensive against Japanese. A convoy of U.S. ships sail through foggy waters in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. Dozens of U.S. Army soldiers stand on the deck of a ship. Distant view of a harbor near Kiska Island. Under the cover of the fog, U.S. soldiers climb aboard small assault boats. The boats arrive at the island and soldiers spill ashore carrying supplies. Close ups of vehicles and large weaponry coming off Higgins boats (LCVPs) onto the island. Long human chains "bucket brigades" move supplies onto the beaches from the boats. Soldiers wade through the shallow water, laden with supplies. Wider shot of the beach with stacks of supplies and soldiers moving about. An artillery gun rotates, alert and scouting the area.
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