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Mission and operations of the U.S. Army Service Forces during World War II
Film opens with an explosion at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941, during the Japanese attack in World War 2. The USS Arizona sinking. Newspaper headline reading "U.S. Declares War." Relief map globe of the world. Narrator speaks about accomplishments of the U.S. Army Service Forces since the Pearl Harbor attack. Glimpse of two M4 DV early Sherman tanks moving on a road. The famous Uncle Sam recruiting poster. Huge number of massed U.S. Army troops marching toward the camera lined 16 abreast. Army supply service personnel inspecting providers of all manner of supplies needed to feed, clothe, and equip the U.S. Army. Brief views of supply operations underway involving food and fuels. An Army truck and a P-38 lightning airplane (under wraps) being loaded aboard a ship. A warehouse stacked from floor to ceiling with military supplies. Forklifts moving in the aisles. Group of officers sitting around a table. Some wear shoulder patch of Army Service Forces on their uniforms. The processing of millions of volunteers and draftees for military service. Men in recruitment office being guided by staff. Lines of new recruits undergoing physical exams and then arriving in civilian clothes, with their baggage, at a training center. Barracks being constructed at a training camp or base in the United States. Camera pans across a large completed military camp. Soldiers forming up in front of barracks. Sign reads "Dispensary, Recruit Reception Center." Recruits lined up and receiving vaccinations against tropical and other diseases according to the regions to which they are being sent. An Army Sergeant assessing recruit qualifications for various military assignments. New recruits eating in a camp dining hall and also in a chow line at an outdoor field mess. Views of industrial workers picking up tools and assembling military equipment in war plants. A coal burning electric generating plant with 8 smoke stacks. A furnace with hot steel visible. An Army agent and an industrialist or business man signing contract documents. Glimpses of women war production workers placing items on a conveyer; guns being assembled by men in an armory; railroad train carrying freight across rugged U.S. territory; ocean-going ships ready for loading; cargo stacked up at ports; numerous 55 gallon drums ready for loading; rope slings of cargo being loaded for shipment; numerous army trucks ready for shipment to Allies, under "Lend Lease;" a nurse checking medical supplies for shipment; Many U.S. Army M3 tanks ready for shipment. Views of British forces engaged in the North African campaign, before the U.S. entry in World War 2. U.S. soldiers marching along a Camp road past a sign reading: "Headquarters, 725th Railway Operating Battalion" (Located in New Orleans). Rapid glimpses of various supplies, equipment, etc. being loaded for shipment abroad. Women war production workers in plants. Men in outdoor yards filling long lines of jerry cans. Close up views of clock hands moving, and gears of clock working. U.S. Army soldiers shooting automatic weapons (including tracer rounds) at a firing range.
Army Service Forces recruits undergo training in the United States.
images of Army Technical training manuals dealing with gas masks; camouflage; heavy tanks; and machine guns. U.S. Army Service Forces (ASF) recruits rushing down a hillside into waters of a swift river and swimming across. They undergo Live Fire Exercises near \end of their training. The must crawl while trainers fire rounds from a Browning M 1917 machine gun over their heads. An explosive charge goes off as the recruits crawl past. ASF troops are briefed about invasion techniques, by an instructor using a realistic small scale mockup of a port city. Recruits crouch over a model of front line terrain. Model trains operate as a training aid. Students at doorway of the U.S. Army School of Military Government. Numerous student studying in the library. In a classroom, a military officer instructor discusses the mission of governing an occupied country with cooperation of the existing governing officials. Closeups of officers discussing the occupation of Germany, at length. (World War II period).
Armed Service Forces men and women ready for invasion of Europe in World War 2, including printing of invasion money.
Armed Service Forces (ASF) personnel at work in the United States during World War 2. Interior of a building. Men and women working. They print invasion money (temporary currency for use in Europe after the Allied invasion, until local currencies can be stabilized). Bills passing through printing machinery. The plan of actions is seen being typed on a typewriter and passed through the ASF network command. An officer talks on phone.
War materiel is loaded on ships to support the Allied invasion of Europe in World War II
A ship being loaded at a U.S. port of embarkation with war materiel to support the Allied invasion of Europe in World War 2. A group of Army dock workers enters the port building. A sign on the front office reads: "U.S. Army Transport Service." Steel structural items and large steel boiler are loaded aboard the ship. Men steady supplies lowered on deck in nets. Men place boxes in the ship's hold. A 2x4 Army truck being lowered into the ship.Tanks and artillery pieces, covered with canvas on the ship deck. A 155mm long tom gun being loaded on the ship More views of equipment and supplies being loaded aboard ship. The covered fuselage of a P-38 Lightning fighter plane being lowered onto the deck. Two civilian men in a wash room talk about upcoming invasion. Troops in full field gear coming aboard the transport ship. Men looking out the port holes of the ship. An invasion convoy getting underway. Soldier on deck, silhouetted against the sky. View of the Pentagon Building in Virginia. Army Service Forces officers meeting in Pentagon. Officers walking in the Pentagon halls. One exchanges salutes with a guard as he leaves the building.
U.S. recruits being classified for assignments and being informed about the progress of World War II and why they fight.
New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another news map and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and other refugees boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.
The Signal Corps recruits being trained and study communication equipment in the United States.
A U.S. military training film titled "Pro Patria Vigilans" on the wartime and peacetime activities of the U.S. Signal Corps. United States Army General Douglas MacArthur aboard the U.S. Army Battleship USS Missouri during the Japanese surrender ceremonies of World War 2 in 1945. General MacArthur speaking on board the ship at the closing of the surrender proceedings. Aircraft flying in formation overhead. Antiaircraft guns directed towards the aircraft. Signal Corps recruits train at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The recruits dive and swim across water. The soldiers attend lecture by an officer. A sign reads: 'Field Radio Course'. Men working in the radio room are trained. Views of soldiers learning to operate radar. Various radar dishes. Closeup views of radar screens. An officer training the soldiers with the help of a model. The coastal defense training of the soldiers. The soldiers study the communication equipment. Soldiers working on communication switchboard equipment, telegraph, and teletype machines. A small messenger aircraft takes off and lands near the message center. A sign outside the building reads: 'Master Message Center'. Soldiers receive a map and clear it through the message center. Spinning equipment in the message center (possibly related to decoding or encryption). Officers seated at a desk, discussing a map.
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