Slow motion demonstration of the main bayonet attack sequence. Guard position, long thrust attack, withdrawal, short thrust attack, withdrawal, jab attack, back to guard position. Narrator says the names of each movement of the sequence as the soldier demonstrating reaches them.
Pre World War 2: U.S. Army description and demonstration of the use of the training stick in bayonet practice. The training stick is a long stick with a loop at the base end and padding at the far end. Footage of two soldiers practicing and switching roles by throwing the training stick and bayonet to one another, then practicing again. They practice on a large field, with suspended straw dummies behind them. Further in the distance, more soldiers can be seen walking in a line.
1930s U.S. Army training film describes how to disarm an opponent attacking with an underhand knife attack. Closeups of training knife and late 1930s U.S. Army uniforms. Two soldiers practicing the move slowly and at full speed, before practicing both disarming moves at will, switching roles with each disarm. Narrator advises attacking in pairs of two over footage of soldiers practicing a two against one scenario. Large group of soldiers practicing with bayonets by performing long thrusts and withdrawals on suspended straw dummies. Narrator advises that soldiers should practice bayonet skills on straw dummies each day while training.
Aerial views from aircraft flying low over and around red sandstone mountains in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, Arizona, United States. View of long straight Monument valley road leading from the Park.
Health care services for Appalachian Mountain residents in the area of Campbell County, Tennessee. Woman straps saddle on horse and mounts it. She rides horse on dirt road, carrying a sick or injured child. She arrives at a building and another woman carries the child into the health facility. Another nurse on horseback picks up an infant child from a concerned Appalachian resident to take to the clinic. Group of men carry a child on a stretcher up a long flight of stairs to a health center. 1930s automobiles navigating rough mountain roads to get to patients. Women arriving by car at a white building atop a hill.
NASA Project Mercury candidate Captain James W. Wood, USAF, undergoes psychological and stress test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Doctors measure candidate's pulse and blood pressure before and after a "Flack" test. The subject must blow continuously into a tube to maintain a column of mercury at a specified level for as long as possible.
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