Attitude of United States Army soldiers towards their jobs and World War II. Soldiers stand in formation. Chart reveals their ignorance of jobs. Soldiers march with flags. Charts of the Signal Corps and Corps of Engineers show the percentage of the ASF liking their own jobs most. Soldiers parade. Buildings in the background. The study reveals that most of the United States soldiers not like their job. The percentage of the soldiers in the army reduced to 50 percent in the last few months. A study is made to find out other information. An airplane in flight. Soldiers were asked about their understanding of their jobs, what do they feel about combat and the effects of war films on them produced by the army. They were also asked about their opinion as which country do they feel is trying hardest to win the war.
Chinese officers and cadets in the United States. Chinese ordnance officers study at Northwestern University. They study modern production techniques. An officer gives lecture. Chinese ordnance officers attend the lectures. Chinese airmen graduate from their training in the United States. Airplanes parked in the background. Cadets stand in a line.
War dogs return home after World War II demilitarization in the United States. United States Army soldiers stand with German Shepherd dogs and conduct training exercise. Dogs bare teeth and bark ferociously at targets during training. Certificate of training. Dogs in a vacation camp fetching sticks, running, and swimming to unlearn military training. A man and woman take their dog with them to their home. The dog in a crate in the back of a station wagon. A German Shepherd dogs runs up a walkway to greet his family. The dog sniffs a young child. A young girl petting her dog.
Preparation for flight and Captain jumps from balloon during Project Excelsior in United States. Technicians work on gondola at night. Sign on gondola reads: 'This is the highest step in the world'. Captain Joseph Kittinger talks with other officials. Technicians unroll the plastic balloon. Captain puts on his uniform for flight. He gets into the gondola. He wears oxygen mask. Balloon inflated and released. Captain in gondola. Gondola lifts off from truck through a crane. Release and ascent of gondola. Balloon and gondola rise above clouds. Captain steps out of gondola. Parachute deploying and captain landing. United States Air Force personnel help Captain Kittinger out of heavy clothing and equipment. He boards CH-21B. The plane in flight.
A review of research and development in guided missiles by the United States Air Force from 1919 to 1948. GB-6, a heat seeker missile, is assembled in a work laboratory. Men attach the homing device to the heat seeker unit then attach the same to the nose section of the GB-6 airframe. They test the heat seeker missile by holding a match flame in front of the same. Activating section of the heat seeker missile. A B-17 flying fortress in flight launches the GB-6 missile. The missile descends.
Harry S Truman appointed President of the United States. The U.S. Capitol building in view. Trees in the foreground. President talks on the phone. Harry Truman attends the 1944 Democratic convention with his daughter, Margaret Truman. People gather holding boards and placards of Truman in hand. A board reads: 'Truman for Vice President'. Franklin Roosevelt seated in a car during his fourth inauguration parade, on January 20, 1945, with motorcade proceeding on Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, and then driving up to the White House. Past events show President Franklin Roosevelt talking to Vice president Truman. Flag at half staff on the U.S. Capitol following death of President Roosevelt. Truman addressing a joint session of the Congress. General Marshall, Admiral King, Secretary of War Stimson all arriving at the White House to meet with President Truman. Also seen are James Byrnes and Truman receiving Lord Halifax, Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Stettinius in the White House. Truman speaks to joint session of congress on April 16, 1945 and expresses desire to continue the efforts and direction set by Franklin Roosevelt, saying, "With great humility I call upon all Americans to help me keep our nation united in defense of those ideals which have been so eloquently proclaimed by Franklin Roosevelt...." He also states, "So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that America will continue to fight for Freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been, and it remains, unconditional surrender. We will face the problems of peace with the same courage that we have faced and mastered the problems of war. In the memory of those who have made the supreme sacrifice; in the memory of our fallen president, we shall not fail."
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