U.S. Army soldiers train with new "Sniperscope" equipment during the Burma Campaign in World War II. The 475th Infantry regiment of the U.S. Mars Task Force are seen gathered for a demonstration of the new Sniper Scope. A U.S. Army soldier demonstrates the parts and use of the sniper scope. He shows a carbine equipped with the sniper scope for accurate firing in the dark. He explains the functioning of the scope and how its attached infrared spotlight operates in conjunction with a telescopic sight mounted on the rifle to enable night vision. He looks through the telescope sight. He demonstrates the use of a unit, attached by a cord, that contains batteries and an electrical focusing attachment. He turns a focusing dial on the unit. The American soldiers examine the carbine and look through the telescopic sight. Narrator explains that the night scope will be used primarily in preventing night infiltration of U.S. held positions.
U.S. 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment attacks Wurdinghausen, Germany during World War II. Soldiers wave at German soldiers to come across a field and surrender. German soldiers walk across the field with their hand raised. Prisoners are searched. The soldiers get into a house. Soldiers advance past a German 20mm gun.
U.S. 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment attacks Wurdinghausen, Germany during World War II. Soldiers fire 30 caliber machine guns from railroad embankments. Soldiers run out of a house, cross a street and enter another house. Soldiers run behind pillars of a stone railroad embankment for cover.
U.S. 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment attacks Wurdinghausen, Germany during World War II. A soldier puts a clip of bullets into an M-1 rifle and fires it. Soldiers lying in prone position. The soldiers advance along a road. They force open a door and enter a house. They pass from under a wrecked railroad bridge.
U.S. 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry Regiment near Herne, Germany during World War II. Soldiers walk through streets of the town. Soldiers fire Browning Automatic Rifles from the window of a house. Soldiers run past a roadblock. Two members of the Volkssturm carry one of their wounded from a cart into a house. A soldier checks dead Germans lying on a street.
U.S. 35th Infantry Division, 137th Infantry Regiment near Herne, Germany during World War II. A group of German prisoners carries a wounded on a litter. Soldiers run down an embankment and up the other side. Boats anchored. Soldiers run out of a house.
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