Soldiers in full battle dress test drive Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. Film begins showing an amphibious jeep backing up in a marsh and then plunging into a river. View of two soldiers standing guard on a bridge, as several jeeps drive under it in the water. Flotilla of jeeps maneuvering in the water. Glimpse of two soldiers standing on the bridge as a jeep passes underneath. Closeup of a jeep driving up onto a river bank. Closeup of one driving past the camera. View from atop the bridge, where the two soldiers are standing. View downward from bridge as a jeep passes underneath. View from bridge as jeeps pass in both directions in the water underneath.
Numerous views of amphibious jeeps racing from land into a river in Army tests of Ford Motor Company anphibious jeeps during World War 2. The jeeps carry Army troops with full field packs. After plunging into the water, a group of the jeeps drives through the water in loose formation at a relatively slow speed. Closeups os several jeeps leaving the water and climbing a river bank.
German prisoners of war gathered near the U.S. Navy Attack Transport ship, USS Thomas Stone, AT-59, at the port of Algiers in World War 2. (The US Thomas Stone was repurposed, after damage, as a floating barracks or processing vessel, especially for handling German and Italian POWs captured.) The German POWs climb a ramp to board the ship. View of them on the ship's deck. U.S. officer and sailor watch as the prisoners board. View of the wharf where lines of German prisoners are boarding. An African American U.S. Navy cook, in chef's white outfit, gives a small card to one of the boarding prisoners. Various views of German prisoners boarding. Scene shifts to view from a small moving boat as it moves out in the harbor.
United States soldiers and sailors participate in amphibious training exercise, in the Chesapeake Bay, during World War 2. Soldier and Sailors exit a Landing Craft Personnel Large, LCPL, and run across a beach towards some woods. Soldiers crouched aboard a Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, LCVP, under way. Note many of the soldiers armed with M-1 Garand rifles, have applied condoms to the muzzles of their rifle barrels, to prevent salt water corrosion. The fleet transport USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, AP-69, flagship for amphibious exercises in Chesapeake Bay., at anchor. A Landing Craft Personnel Large, LCPL passes by in the foreground. Soldiers aboard and exiting a beached Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel, LCVP. An LCVP with 'P69-10' painted on its side hits the beach. Soldiers exit near yellow cloth beach signal panel and run across the beach.
United States soldiers during a landing maneuvers exercise in World War 2. Soldiers look on as a 75mm pack Howitzer carriage is lifted from hold of ship by crane. Soldiers put on gear and disembark from the transport ship to a small Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP). Soldiers crouch in the LCVP as it gets underway.
Officers inspect Thompson submachine gun aboard the USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, AP-69 during landing maneuvers exercises on the Chesapeake Bay, in World War 2. Soldiers crouched in a Landing Craft under way towards a beach. Landing craft from the USS Elizabeth C. Stanton, arriving at the shore. Soldiers on beach advance towards the woods. Soldiers take cover in prone positions and dry fire their weapons.
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