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Steel being produced in a mill and tanks roll out of an assembly line in California, United States during World War 2.

Steel being produced in a mill in California, United States during world War II. Machines in operation as steel is being produced in the first steel production facility on the U.S. West Coast. Famous industrialist and shipbuilding titan, Henry J. Kaiser, looks at the production process in the mill. Tanks roll out of an assembly line. Many lines of completed medium tanks and heavy tanks lined up in depots and ready for use in World War II.

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065879
Nearly 2500 tanks maneuver in the desert of California, United States.

United States Army tanks during a maneuver in California, United States. Aerial view of several tanks in the desert of California during a maneuver. Nearly 2500 tanks roll ahead.

Date: 1943
Duration: 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066014
Trainees advance through smoke during a gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. An aircraft flying low over a field leaving a thick gas obstacle course. Landing crafts arriving on a beach carrying troops. Troops on tanks during a training. A sign board reads 'C.W. (Chemical Warfare) School, Gas Obstacle Course'. A pictorial map showing the course in a woody terrain. The map shows six stations along the terrain. Each station gives trainees a specific gas combat situation. The trainees at a decontamination building where they are given protective clothing, coveralls, boots and gloves. The trainees wearing the protective clothing. Two men preparing nitrostarch explosives and other explosives and fireworks to simulate enemy fire. The trainees divided into squads. The trainee squads moving in columns. A board reads 'Station No.1, Attack thru Smoke'. The trainees advancing into the woody terrain. A man from a control tower signals and an instructor blows a whistle alerting the squad. The first mine is exploded and the squad advances on the terrain. The squad advancing among trees to a wire fenced entangle. Simulated enemy fire from bombs, fire crackers and rockets explosions. The squad advancing among the trees. The trainees moving in a trench. Simulated enemy lays down a huge envelope of smoke blown from smoke generator jets. Clouds of smoke spreading over the area. Igniting HC smoke pads and white phosphorous land mines are released adding to the density of the clouds. CN grenades are tossed by the instructor into the smoke to teach lesson that smoke masks a gas attack. Smoke in the air in the wooded terrain. The members of the squad put on masks to avoid further attacks. The squad moving through the smoke. The barbed wire entangle in view. The squad moves under a wire fence and proceed to station no.2. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 7 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066397
Trainees inspect a German cellar during a gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A training squad at station no.2 during the gas obstacle course. The squad leader moves with team members towards a captured German command post. A sign board reads 'Station No.2, German Command Post'. The team beside the command post. The leader opens the door of a cellar and signals to his squad. The team members enter the cellar and one of the team members lets off a booby trap. Smoke rises from the explosion. The squad moving in the cellar. One of the team members inspects a German gas mask. Another team member inspects another equipment. The team emerges from the cellar. The team standing in a group on a grassy ground. One of the squad members writing a consolidated report.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066398
Trainees identifying duds during a gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A trainee squad at Station No.3 in a woody terrain during the gas obstacle course. An instructor and trainees standing beside a canoe near trees. The instructor tells the members of the squad to identify duds (unexploded ordnance) since the enemy used some agents of an unknown type in shells. The members of the squad walk through the woody terrain trying to identify duds. One of the trainees identifies a shell in a dug. The trainee jotting down notes. One of the officers sprays CND from a chemical cylinder into the air. The trainees in the terrain identify all the dugs. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066399
Trainees in a contaminated area during a gas obstacle course at Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland.

A gas obstacle course at the Chemical Warfare School in the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, United States. A signboard reads 'Station No.4, Reconnaissance for samples of vesicants'. Trainees on a woody terrain where the enemy has shelled with an unidentified gas. A trainee collecting a shell holder and testing it for contamination. The trainee then takes a soil sample in a bottle for analysis and wraps it with a wax paper to prevent leakage and burns. The trainee squad moving through a contaminated area. An explosion of mustard gas in the area. Soil, plants and trees are contaminated. The squad wearing impregnated coats moving through the contaminated area. View of shoes of the trainees covered with particles of mustard. The squad beside a wire fence entangle. The squad moving through trees to the next station in the course. (World War II period).

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066400