Soldiers run across toggle rope bridges as shells explode around them in Oahu, Hawaii. Lieutenant General Robert C. Richardson looks on. Soldiers in camouflaged uniform and helmets fire rifles at a hut and submachine gun from a window. (World War II period).
American soldiers in camouflaged uniform charge out of hiding in a jungle in Oahu, Hawaii. (World War II period).
Wright Brothers Model C aircraft in a field during a flight in the United States. Two men turn propellers, engine starts and it takes off. It flies low over a field as a DH-4 aircraft also flies. DH-4 and Wright Model C flying low and close to each other. A blimp in flight with DH-4 in the background. (This event occurred well after the 1914 grounding of the Model C by the Army due to a series of fatal crashes).
1946 Film about military and civilian applications of radar and electronics. View of the LaGuardia Airport Administration Building (passenger terminal) in New York, with control tower and various antennas on its roof. A TWA Constellation and DC-3 airplane on the airport ramp, as another aircraft is on the final approach to land. Commercial cargo vessels in New York harbor (Statue of Liberty barely seen in the misty background). A passenger railroad train speeding along the tracks. Radar returns shown on a plan position radar scope, tracking weather returns. Tropical storm hitting a seaside area. Scientists and technicians at work in a laboratory filled with electronic equipment. View of buildings at U.S. Army Signal Corps' Camp Evans, New Jersey. Sign above one entrance reads: "Evans Signal Laboratory." Inside the laboratory, images created by radar signals bounced off the moon are seen on a radar scope, during "Project Diana," on January 10, 1946. View of the Army's GB-4 radio controlled television glide bomb, suspended on a chain inside a building. It rotates around showing various views. Scene shifts to a launching track outdoors at a coastal facility, where a glide bomb takes off raising smoke as it accelerates along the launch path. Next, a GB-4 glide bomb is released from underneath a B-17 bomber in flight. It is seen flying away from the aircraft. Inside the aircraft, a crew member views its progress by means of television images received from a transmitter in the front of the bomb. Glimpse of the television images. View from the ground of the GB-4 bomb gliding to the ground and exploding. Views of a German V-2 rocket at Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Ground , New Mexico, where it was being tested by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department in 1946. Inside a control room, an Army technician gives the signal to launch, and the V-2 rocket fires and rises straight into the sky, with its fiery tail visible as it gains altitude. More views of scientists, engineers, and technicians inside a Signal Corps electronics laboratory. Soldiers being trained in radar technology, seated at an electronic array. An army staff sergeant technician working on radar components. A variety of different radar antennas rotating outdoors.
Private Snafu, an animated cartoon character tries out different branches of military but returns to infantry, thus proving its importance. He becomes an airman, a sailor but finally turns back to the infantry.
A group of United States marines, some of them injured. Marine Private Albert Smith narrates experiences about Gaudal canal campaign. He explains the exchange of fires between Japan and Allied troops. (World War II period).
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