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The uses and the importance of colored grenades in a combat (WWII)

'Colored smoke grenades: their use in combat' shows the types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during combat in WW2. Colored smoke grenades burst. An orange smoke grenade burns. Grenades piled up in a crate. A soldier picks up a grenade from the crate and removes the outer can. He throws it on the ground and orange smoke rises from it. An aerial views of an area along a coast. Units advance in a field. An aircraft in flight. Different units burst different colored smoke grenades to pass on the information about their position to their Commander. The aircraft drops a colored grenade to get some information from the unit on advance. The unit sets off a purple grenade as an answer. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042930
The use of colored grenades by a unit cut off from its headquarters during combat in WW2.

The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during combat in WWII. An enactment shows a unit in a forest which has been cut off from its headquarters. The leader of the unit sights a friendly reconnaissance plane and throws a green smoke grenade to signal their position. Another grenade burns indicating their immediate need. The pilot of the aircraft throws a sign grenade. He signals them the way to be followed by throwing a red smoke grenade along the road to be followed.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042931
Use of colored grenades by a unit to know the direction of the enemy fire during WW2.

The types, uses and importance of colored smoke grenades during WWII. An enactment shows units during an advance. Laying out a cloth in an arrow sign indicating the direction of an enemy fire and burning a smoke grenade near it. The smoke signal indicates the help required by the unit in knowing the direction of the enemy fire. A reconnaissance plane surveys the combat area and enemy installations. A pillbox being located and smoke grenades being burst. Soldiers fire 4.2 mortars at the pillbox and smoke rises. Smoke engulfs the pillbox. Ground units attack the area. A soldier sets off a colored smoke grenade to indicate cease fire. Soldiers advance and smoke from colored grenades rises.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042932
Singer Al Trace along with his band, sings the song, "Let's All Back the Attack, during World War II bond drive. Scenes of War in Pacific.

Film opens showing Al Trace with his orchestra, singing a song entitled, "Let's All Back the Attack." As he sings in the background, scenes of American military operations in the Pacific theater are shown. U.S. troops jump from Landing craft during an amphibious assault in the Pacific during World War II. Troops leave the USS LCI(L)-343 (Landing Craft Infantry, Large) via side ramps during an amphibious landing. U.S. Marines carrying a wounded Marine on a stretcher during Battle of Tarawa. American Marines hunkered down next to a landing vehicle tracked (LVT). They attend to wounded on the sand and carry some out toward landing craft for evacuation. View from flight deck of a U.S. aircraft under attack by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft. Black flak clouds near a low-flying Japanese plane. Sailor ducking as he runs across the flight deck. Deck crews scrambling on the flight deck as a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" passes dangerously close and its wing falls off. Glimpse of a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter on the carrier flight deck. Glimpse of the ship's antiaircraft guns. The Zero crashes in the water with a huge explosion. Scene shifts back to Al Trace and orchestra continuing their song. Closing scene exhorts audience to buy an extra war bond today.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043013
Recognition, capabilities and similarities of Japanese Zero fighter plane and United States P-40 Warhawk (WW2)

Recognition and capabilities of Japanese World War II Zero fighter plane. Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero in flight. Animated diagram of Zero fighter plane shows its wings, tail and engine. Animated picture of Zero fighter plane and United States P-40 Warhawk. The similarities and differences of both the aircraft is shown. United States P-40 Warhawk in flight. Actor Ronald Reagan dramatizes the experience of mistakenly shooting at a P-40. Officers converse with each other. Pilot looks at pictures of P-40 War Hawk on wall. Airmen discuss the differences and similarities between Japanese Zero fighter plane and the United States P-40 Warhawk. Pilot seated in cockpit of P-40 Warhawk. Airmen ask questions of Ronald Reagan. Pilot Ronald Reagan then takes to the air, correctly identifies a Japanese Zero fighter plane and shoots at it.

Date: 1943
Duration: 19 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043014
United States Army soldiers make artificial rocks that camouflage in rocky terrain during World War 2.

Camouflaged dummies and decoys in World War II. Realistic looking artificial rocks made by United States soldiers. Framework made of wire. Soldier lifts the framework from ground and places white paper on it. A group of soldiers paints the covered framework with natural mud color. The wired framework is removed from inside. Black paint sprayed on the imitation rock. Soldier removes cover from ditch on ground and emerges with a rifle in his hand. Soldier enters a camouflaged rocky area on ground. Tents covered with nets.

Date: 1943
Duration: 5 min 39 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043270