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Sport Parachuting Club at Fort Bragg and the Army Parachute Team during a public demonstration
A sign identifies the "XVIII Airborne Corps Sport Parachuting Club" at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Members of the club are seen standing at an operations counter inside the building. Each of them wears a patch with the club logo. A large open air stadium is seen where the Army Skydiving Team will perform. Paratroop members of the U.S. Army Parachute Team walking to an Army AT-19 aircraft. view of the aircraft in flight and of the pilot at the controls. Army Team members seated in the cabin of the airplane. View of large open area below with markings on the ground. Below, men sit near signal panels used to convey information to the jumpers.The first jumper signals to the copilot who signals back. The jumper goes out and free-falls. On the ground, signal panels call for various maneuvers which the trooper performs. Spectators look upwards to see the maneuvers. View from the plane, as the jumper opens his chute and steers toward a target marked on the field, which he hits perfectly. Another jumper leaves the airplane and repeats the process. View from the jumper of his altimeter. His chute opens and we see the ground target from his viewpoint. He lands.
United States Army soldiers being trained at various training centers in United States
Statue of U.S. Army infantryman (called "Follow Me.") is seen at opening of film. Closeups of some trainees crawling under barbed wire as trainers observe them. Others are seen running and jumping obstacles. Trainees on a firing range training with rifles and M60 machine guns. Glimpse of soldier placing a large round into a mortal tube. Soldier firing an M40 106mm recoilless rifle. Infantry advancing across a field. An M48 Patton tank maneuvering. An M109 155mm self-propelled Howitzer. An M113 tracked Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) moving in wooded area. View of Infantry Hall at the U.S. Army Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia. The statue of an infantryman, called "Follow Me," stands in front of the building. Infantry training in a rugged area. They wear elements of natural camouflage. A 175mm M107 Self Propelled Gun. Scene changes to U.S. Army Armor Center Headquarters, also at Fort Benning. Tanks are seen maneuvering and raising dust in a lightly wooded area. An M60 tank maneuvering and firing its gun. A 175mm M107 Self Propelled Long Tom gun firing. A Pershing missile slowly being raised toward firing position. Gun crew firing an 8-inch howitzer at zero elevation. Shell exploding in distance. Views of elaborate radar antenna system and of Army technicians monitoring instruments and printers in a control center. Green Berets at the the John F. Kennedy Center for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. They tend to a wounded Special Forces soldier in a primitive shelter. Others are seen reading instructions as they sit in foliage. Some maneuver aboard rubber rafts in a river. Two Green Berets set a demolition charge on a rail line. Soldiers engage in unarmed combat practice. Others train surviving off the land. An instructor lectures an audience of officers and men in an outdoor setting. Soldiers in a parachute shop with parachutes of various colors opened for inspection. Lines of parked Army trucks. Jeeps and trucks undergoing routine inspection and maintenance Doctors and nurses tending sick and wounded soldiers.
Airborne operations demonstration shows paratroops and supplies being dropped from C-119 aircraft. 100 ton tank demonstrated
C-119 (Flying Boxcar) Aircraft takes off. Formation of C-119s in flight. Rear door of plane opens and pallet of supplies is dropped. Paratroopers jump from the planes. Paratroopers land. An army 2 1/2 ton truck moves at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. A 100 ton tank is shown next to a normal size tank and it is shown operating in water.
American Civilian Conservation Corps restore Fort Macon in North Carolina as part of conservation work.
Conservation Work in the United States during the Great Depression. View of the Bogue Bank near Fort Macon in Morehead City, North Carolina. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) inspect Fort Macon and restore the fort. Worker measures the breadth of fort wall. Arches and ammunition rooms of the fort. Damaged door inside one of the rooms. Worker inspects doors. Man repairs a damaged window.
The Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC and Paratrooper Demonstration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina in World War II
The Arcadia Conference in Washington, DC, during World War 2, from December 22, 1941 to January 14, 1942. American President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, are seated in chairs on a portico of the White House. ( Roosevelt wears a black arm band, in mourning for his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, who died on September 7, 1941.) Behind them stand representatives from various Allied nations. Scene shifts abruptly to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, June 24, 1942, where Prime Minister Churchill and U.S. Army Brigadier General William C. Lee, ride in back of an open white convertible car to inspect U.S. Army troops at attention in a massive formation. Next, the troops are seen marching. Churchill smoking a cigar is seated on a bench watching as the parade continues, to include soldiers in jeeps, and trucks. Closeup of U.S. Army chief of Staff, General George Marshall, conversing with Prime Minister Churchill. Next, Churchill, accompanied by General Lee, personally inspects Army paratroopers in their jump gear. Among others accompanying him is U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, wearing a pith helmet. Churchill listens on a portable radio, as paratroop commanders in flight give orders for their paratroopers to jump. Formations of U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 aircraft are seen overhead, as hundreds of paratroopers jump from them and descend by parachutes. Churchill, seated on a chair, next to General Lee, watches the paratrooper demonstration. Secretary Stimson, sits behind him. British and American officers and soldiers stand behind and watch, as well. Closeup of Churchill with cigar in his mouth, shielding his eyes, with his hands as he watches the demonstration. The second person seated behind Churchill is British Field Marshal Sir John Dill, with his hand on an upright wood support. More views of parachutes floating down into an area of trees, and of more C-47s dropping paratroops from overhead.
Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visit North Carolina
The Pan American Highway Commission officials received by Cameron A. Morrison, Governor of North Carolina. Governor Morrison and the delegates pose for a photo on steps of a building. The commission visits the Highway Equipment Depot near Raleigh and inspects the machinery. They proceed towards University of North Carolina. Traffic signs and direction boards on road sides. University of North Carolina college students give a cheer and greet the group. The commission buses, cars, motorcycles and motorcycles with sidecars are seen traveling on highway roads in North Carolina. The commission members observe road machinery and try out the machines including early tractors, graders, scrapers, and plows, trench diggers, and steam shovels. Two delegate members ride in the bucket of a steam shovel. They halt at the newly completed Wilcox Bridge spanning the Yadkin River near Spencer, North Carolina. A view of the caravan on the open-spandrel (open support system) Wilcox Bridge over the Yadkin River and then in a North Carolina town. The group entering Bessemer city in North Carolina, where a welcome banner spans the roadway.
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