Demonstration of ordnance material at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. U.S. Army General William R. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Edward M. Shinkle and other officials standing with West Point cadets. The cadets and officials watch the demonstration of a 16 inch coastal gun. Smoke rises as the gun is fired.
Demonstration of ordnance material at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. U.S. Army General William R. Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Edward M. Shinkle and other officials standing with West Point cadets. They watch the demonstration by a keystone bomber. Men load a bomb in the bomb bay of an airplane. A man inserts the primer detonator in the fuse assembly. He threads the end of the arming wire through one set of holes in the arming vane. Smoke rises as the airplane drops the bomb.
Activities of West Point cadets in the United States. The cadets attend ordnance exercises at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Officers aboard an armored car moving along the ground. The car moves along a ramp. Trees in the background. A cadet looks through a pierced armor plate which was pierced as a result of firing a 12 inch armor piercing projectile. Men look for the projectile which bursts after piercing the armor plate. The cadets gather for the demonstration of a 16 inch seacoast gun. Officers stand nearby and fire the gun. Smoke rises as the gun is fired.
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).
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.
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).
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