The U.S. Army Ranger combat training school at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States during World War 2. Men seated on ground. An instructor explains the use of Water cooled Machine Gun. Soldiers learn to fire various weapons. An instructor explains a gun. Men perform drills with various rifles and machine guns, including Thompson submachine guns. A man loads a gun. Men practice firing guns at target.
The U.S. Army Ranger combat training school, during World War 2, at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States. Men crawl on ground with knives and learn to hit enemies in trench. Instructor explains various moves and positions with knife. He explains the moves with another man. Soldiers practice with knives. The instructor targets knife on ground near foot of a man. Men sit on ground. Instructor explains how to snatch knife from an enemy. Men practice the tactic. Instructor shows way to smash enemy with knife on a dummy. Weapons designed by the students being displayed. Visitors seated on hill and some stand.
Soldiers go through the assault course with gas masks, under fire, at the U.S. Army Ranger Combat Training School in Fort Shafter, Hawaii, during World War 2. Opening scene shows several trainees in gas masks carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, advancing through rough terrain in which tear gas fumes are seen. Closeup of one soldier, wearing steel helmet and mask, but otherwise stripped to the waist, as he bayonets a stuffed dummy target on the course. He uses his bayonet on another dummy that drops down on him as he scrambles out of a tunnel. Views of other soldiers passing through the same portion of the training course. As they leave the tunnel, they encounter more gas that billows across their path. Change of scene shows the soldiers climbing over obstacles placed in their path. Closeups of some trainees scrambling over obstacles. Some soldiers are seen crawling as camera pans to sniper firing from a palm tree. Next, they must traverse another obstacle and engage two more dummies with their bayonets, next to barbed wire fence. As they pass a steep hill, an explosion occurs raising smoke and causing rocks and dirt to fall down towards them. Next, they must make their way along a ravine lined with barbed wire. One fires his rifle. Closeups of several trainees climbing out of a water filled ravine and crossing a stream on makeshift footholds. Soldiers must run on a log to cross a creek, as explosive charges explode around them. They emerge from a tunnel and charge up a steep dirt hill to encounter another dummy to bayonet. Film ends displaying a sign that exhorts soldiers to embrace killing and reminding them survival requires that they KILL or be KILLED. It is signed by Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It ends: "WE are not going to be killed!"
Eruption of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii,United States. Animated map shows the location on Mauna Loa volcano. Eruption at crater. Smoke rises due to eruption. Park engineers with pack horses pass the mountain. Fiery spouts of lava over crater. Fiery lava sputters from crater. Red hot lava flows. Observers seated by red hot lava stream near crater. The lava sputters and smoke rising from the lava. Red hot lava stream. Flaming geysers of lava. Red hot streams of lava flow.
Eruption of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii,United States. An observer seated by red hot lava stream near crater. The lava flowing. Red hot lava stream. The lava flowing down the mountainside. A view of the lava flowing.
Eruption of Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii,United States. An observer seated by red hot lava stream near crater. Red hot lava stream. The lava sputters. The lava flowing. The lava sputters and flows down the mountainside.
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