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U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt signs Selective Service Training Act of 1940. American men are drafted for military service
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses officials in Germany. German military aircraft in flight . Bombs falling on targets. German troops march through streets. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at a desk in his office, signs the Selective Service Training Act of 1940. Officials mix serial numbers in a glass container. President Roosevelt announces the serial numbers of the men drafted into the U.S. Army. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets await the announcement. Selected men are shown in all places and in all walks of life, in the United States, including an African American man. The men undergo a medical and physical checkup at the induction center to begin service as new military recruits. Those inducted receive basic training and begin tours of duty in the U.S. Army. (World War II period). Background music during recruitment scenes is a chorus singing "This is the Army Mr Jones" by Irving Berlin.
Training of American draftees before World War II; also Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Roosevelt's request for declaration of war.
United States soldiers and new recruits at a camp in the U.S. before outbreak of World War II. New recruits and U.S. Army soldiers in training run obstacle course. Soldiers in their uniforms march through the camp area. Tents in the background. Newly drafted U.S Army soldiers learn to fire weapons on firing range using artificial wooden rifles. U.S. soldiers seen training with wooden replica machine guns and using empty Adelphi beer cans as substitute artillery ammunition for training purposes. Teams of soldiers compete in moving a giant ball. They compete in blindfolded boxing on their knees. Lacking adequate war materiel for training, they make do by pretending that trucks are tanks and labeling them with such signs. They pretend with wooden guns and throw flour sacks instead of grenades. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor raid by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941. Views of the USS Arizona being hit and various ships on fire soon after the attack. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen addressing Congress, where he asks for a declaration of war against Japan.
Demobilized Army soldiers at an academy and National Guard soldiers march on a field in the U.S., post WW2
Demobilization at the end of World War Two. Servicemen being mustered out at a separation center and returning home to resume normal civilian lives following discharge. Servicemen going home on a train. Some servicemen decide to remain in the armed services. They interact with fellow soldiers. Peacetime soldiers playing baseball, during leisure time, while others watch them and drink cokes. U.S. National Guard men march on a field. Some soldiers join Army Reserve units where they keep up their ratings and skills. A reserve gun crew loads shells and fires artillery. Officer looks through binoculars.
The three U.S. Army components are : the Army Reserves, the Regular Army and the Army National Guard.
Components of the U.S. Army. A poster in the United States reads 'All for One,One for all U.S. Army'. The three army components are : the Army Reserve, the Regular Army and the Army National Guard. A poster reads ' Serve in the Army Reserve'. Men of the Army Reserve join the Active Army during a summer training in field exercises. A large group of U.S. Army soldiers marching on a field. Soldier works on a typewriter. Other soldiers learn to load and fire artillery.
U.S. Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps undergo technical and physical training in the United States.
U.S. Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps in the United States. A poster reads 'US Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC)'. Students attend classroom teaching. The students stand in formation on a field. They receive caps and uniforms from soldiers at a counter. The students gathered on a field for technical training. They march and train on obstacle course during their physical conditioning.. They learn to load and fire artillery.
U.S. Army Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker calls a conference for the senior commanders of all U.S. Army components in the U.S.
U.S. Army components in the United States. Aerial view of the Pentagon armed forces installation in Arlington, Virginia, just outside of Washington DC, and ground level views of the Pentagon from nearby roads such as the Shirley Highway (Interstate 395) and possibly the George Washington Memorial Parkway. A sign board in the Pentagon reads ' Department of Defense'. View of Secretary of the Army Wilbur M. Brucker. Two newspaper headlines about the Cold War, space race, and the space satellite programs of the Soviet Union. U.S. Army soldiers at attention during inspection in their barracks. Men of U.S. Army National Guard and Reserve Units march across a field. A formation of many L-2 observation planes flies very low over the marching troops. Close up views of faces of U.S. Army soldiers. They perform calisthenics exercise drills during their physical training and stand in formation.
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