Views of various structures and objects after being exposed to atomic explosive test shot "Apple 2" during U.S. Army Exercise Desert Rock VI. A wooden frame house splintered by the blast. A low concrete structure, relatively intact. An overturned Army vehicle. An unsheltered low-wing monoplane, number NG 489851, with skin stripped from its horizontal stabilizer and wing tips. A P-47 aircraft appearing relatively intact. A badly damaged two-wheel trailer. A relatively unscathed auxiliary power unit on a stabilized trailer. Vehicles reduced to rubble. Radar unit and accompanying truck and power unit, seemingly OK, but dish antenna may be damaged. Three soldiers stand around an M2HB heavy machine gun knocked from its stand. A B-29 bomber sits on a ramp with a sign in front of it warning of radiation. A ground crewman sprays the bomber down with a pressure hose to decontaminate it by washing off radioactive particles. A soldier rides a jeep out to check radiation readings on a vehicle that had been exposed. Troops walk back from ground zero and undergo personal cleaning with brooms and checks by geiger counters. A soldier being checked, including his boots. Soldiers sweeping dust from M48 tanks used in the exercise. A soldier being "interviewed" by another, about means of coping with atomic weapons on the battlefield. A formation of soldiers marching, led by one carrying a Corps of Engineers Guidon with the number 14 on it. [Note: According to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, from February 18 to May 15, 1955, the United States conducted Operation Teapot, a nuclear test series at Yucca Flat and Frenchman Flat on the Nevada Test Site in the continental United States. During the test period 14 nuclear shots and 1 non-nuclear shot were detonated. Several thousand scientific, military (army, air force, navy, marines), and civilian contract personnel participated in the organization, planning, and execution of the test series. Military exercises undertaken during and following the shots took place under the name Desert Rock 6.]
An emergency practice training of U.S. Army National Guardmen in the United States. A car drives through streets and arrives at a National Guard Armory. A National Guard soldier, not yet in uniform, gets out of a mid 1950s sedan car and runs into the building, where he and other uniformed National Guardsmen are issued rifles from a rack and depart on their mission. They run up a flight of stairs. They get in jeeps and advance through streets of New York City, near the United Nations building, during a practice training alert. An officer issues instructions and is saluted. A National Guard sentry guards an essential military site.
United States Army post Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Aerial view of Fort Benning. Faith Middle School and hospital buildings. The Infantry Chapel, theater, and Fort Benning Main Exchange at the army post.
The U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. A statue in front of the U.S. Army Infantry School. An officer teaches infantry soldiers in a classroom. They attend a mechanical training to learn tactics. Men from the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force arrive for training. Men work on publications in the correspondence school operated by the infantry school. Infantry soldiers undergo practical training under the guidance of experts. The soldiers take down notes. 'Follow Me' is the motto of the school. Infantry soldiers learn to advance and fire artillery during field exercises.
The U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. 'Follow Me' statue in front of the school. An infantry soldier fires a rifle. An officer instructs soldiers during a training fire course. Under expert instructions the soldiers learn the handling of weapons and firing them at fixed and changing targets. A soldier learns to detect a target and fire from different positions. The infantry soldiers learn to fire machine guns and use hand grenades.
The U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Infantry soldiers learn to use grenade launchers. An officer instructs the soldiers on the use of flame throwers. A soldier uses a flame thrower and other uses a machine gun.
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