Sailors learn methods of attack and counterattack of hand to hand combat during a training program of the Navy in the United States. Two sailors demonstrate how to disarm an assailant with pistol in back using the outside turn. One sailor who poses as the assailant points a pistol in the back of another who raises his hands. The other sailor disarms him using the outside turn. Next they demonstrate how to disarm an assailant with pistol in back using the inside turn. (World War II period).
Sailors learn methods of hand to hand combat attack and counterattack during a training program of the navy in the United States. Two sailors demonstrate how to disarm an assailant with a pistol aimed at head. One of the sailors poses as the assailant and aims a pistol at the second sailor's head. The second sailor swings his arm to cause the pistol to drop and delivers a kick in the groin of the assailant. (World War II period).
Sailors learn methods of hand to hand combat attack and counterattack during a training program of the navy in the United States. Two sailors demonstrate how to disarm an assailant with an automatic pistol or a revolver. One of the sailors poses as the assailant and points an automatic pistol at the other sailor. The second sailor disarms him. (World War II period).
Sailors learn methods of hand to hand combat attack and counterattack during a training program of the Navy in the United States. Two sailors demonstrate how to disarm an assailant with a pistol pointed at the abdomen. They demonstrate the use of outward twist, inward twist, downward twist and side ward twist to disarm the opponent. The sailors also demonstrate different methods of attack and counterattack. (World War II period).
'Tunisian Victory' shows preparations during World War 2. Film opens showing a sailor in the crow's nest of a ship in a convoy of American warships. Aerial glimpse of the convoy. Sailors working on teletype machines in s communications center aboard an American warship. Ships exchanging light signals at night. Scene shifts to a British naval convoy moving across the sea. View from bridge of forward guns on British King George V-class battleship. A single stack Navy destroyer ship. HMS Rodney with 3 over 3 forward gun turrets leads another warship protecting the convoy. The aircraft carrier, HMS Illustrious in camouflage paint. An American Navy Douglas Dauntless dive bomber seen from a ship. A U.S. Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina aircraft over the convoy. Brief view of a four-engine bomber flying over the convoy. Scene shifts to sailors on ship's deck in the American convoy. The British flag on one of its convoy ships. Scene shifts to the White House on June 18, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arriving with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car. Lights burning at night in the White House. Closeup of hats of the British and American staff officers on a rack. World Globe showing German army thrusts to the North by Field Marshal Fedor von Bock into Ukraine and the Caucasus, and another by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel South toward Egypt. In Asia, the conquests of Japan are shown. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are seated at a desk. Behind them are Roosevelt's assistant, Harry Hopkins and two uniformed officers. View of relief map showing planned joint offensive. British and American staff officers seated at a planning table. Pertinent maps being printed for the offensive. Closeup views of woman's hands typing on typewriter. Tight closeup view of a teletype tape coming across a machine that reads "ANFO GAZE ACROBAT RE NO K" A typist at a teletype machine with tape being made. A busy military communications center. A plan marked "secret" moving across a sliding document mechanism or slide. American and British war production workers arriving at military equipment production factories for work; large groups of war production workers. Workers at military equipment plants and factories in the the U.S. and the U.K., including many women workers involved in war production. A document labeled "SECRET OCSigO" Staff officers in planning session. U.S. Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, seated with British Field Marshal Sir John Dill. More views of the Combined Chiefs of Staff at work viewing wall maps and table maps and plans. Steel mills in operation. American army troops training and preparing in battle drills, firing machine guns, battlefield advance training, swimming under water below flamethrower flames and below oil slicks on fire, leaping into water, practicing paratrooper jumps into water. New ships including Liberty Ships and warships being launched at American shipyards. War production workers inside a plant building B-17 bomber aircraft. An early version of Sherman tank (external bolts showing) and Sherman tanks being built in factory. Shipboard twin anti aircraft guns being test fired. Giant yards filled with newly manufactured weapons, armor, trucks, tanks jeeps, searchlights. U.S. Army generals walk in a group inspecting equipment. War materiel and troops and tanks being transported on railroad trains in America and Britain. Covered Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft being towed by trucks past a watching British police (Bobby) at night. Ships being loaded at docks. Troops and war materiel being loaded aboard ships in the U.S. and Britain. Crowd on dock (mostly women) waving goodbye to soldiers on a ship. Soldiers look out portholes and from deck as troop transport ships get underway. Hand sets ship engine control to slow. Soldiers entertain themselves. Soldier playing piano on deck of ship as fellow soldiers listen and tap feet on top of console piano. Closeup view of hands on piano and a soldiers boot nearby on the piano case. Soldiers smile and enjoy the music.
Vice President Alben Barkley and members of Congress, including Senator J William Fulbright of Arkansas, pose by the DC-6 Presidential aircraft, the "Independence." Vice President Barkley takes off his hat and waves. Closeup of Senator Fulbright. An officer stands nearby. Members of the party wave their hats as they board the aircraft, which then taxis out for takeoff.
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