United States Army soldiers' uniform in the United States. U.S. Army Sergeant Stuart Queen speaks about soldiers' uniform in the earlier days. Caps kept on a table. A soldier in a uniform. A poster for the U.S. Army.
The Big Picture telecast in the United States. Animated globe rotates. The U.S. Army presents the Big Picture which is an official report for the Armed Forces and the American people.
People celebrate in the United States. Costumed people parade and dance in the street (possibly Mummers parade in Philadelphia). Women models in swim suits walk on a ramp during a beauty pageant. Paul Whiteman conducts his jazz orchestra. Women dancers in swirling gowns.
Lifestyle of American soldiers between the World Wars. Soldier sounds bugle on a field in the United States. Soldiers leave their tents. Soldiers loaded on covered wagons pulled by mules. Army vehicles operating during training. Soldiers on firing range. National Guard and Army Reserve personnel referred to as "Civilian soldiers." They eat in their camp. They enjoy ice cream cones. They play Army band instruments while some of them dance and a soldier plays the saxophone.
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.
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.
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