A U.S. Army training film on Rifle Marksmanship with an M-1. Rapid Fire: An officer takes a training session for soldiers seated on the ground. An M-1 rifle on the table nearby, and a board in the background reads 'Preparatory Marksmanship Training'. The officer gives instructions about rapid fire exercises. Soldiers in prone position with M-1 rifles at a firing range. Soldiers in bushes. Soldiers in supply detail walk on a path through the jungle. They run into an ambush, take position and fire from behind trees. Soldiers in a defensive position, enemy soldiers charges towards them. A soldier dives into a shell hole, gets into the kneeling position and shoots straight. (World War II period).
Training maneuvers during Operation Alligator Hide at the White Beach Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, United States. An M-48 tank parked in a grassy area. Marines on the top hatch of the tank. A portion of the tank in view parked in a bushy area. The tank with the Marines moving over a grassy field. A helicopter flying low over fields and hills. The parked M-48 tank and the Marines standing beside the tank. The Marines holding M-14 rifles looking towards several other Marines with M-14 rifles moving across a dirt area. A Marine standing beside a barbed wire and wood fence speaks to other Marines. One of the Marines with a PRC-25 radio. One of the Marines kneels on the ground with an M-14 rifle at the ready. A bushy area in view. Simulation: The Marines moving in the area with two villagers. One of the villagers is wearing a straw hat. The Marines with the villagers standing in a dirt area. View of the Marines standing and talking in the dirt area. Two Marines with M-14 rifles at the ready walk while escorting a prisoner who has his hands behind neck. One of them has a PRC-25 radio on his back. One of the Marines turns and motions his hand as another prisoner enters. A few Marines with M-14 rifles at the ready, stand guarding the prisoners standing with hands behind necks.
New class of replacements go through the 3 day course at the 1st Air Cavalry Division Combat Training Center in Vietnam. Soldiers (replacements) of 1st Air Cavalry load and fire M-16 rifle. Views of soldiers fire M-203 grenade launcher attached to M-16 rifle. Soldiers fire M-203 grenades. (Vietnam War period).
2nd French Armored Division training in a field near Sledmere, Yorkshire during World War 2. French Moroccan Spahis soldiers move a 57 MM gun M1 on carriage M1A3 into place in a field. Men adjusts the 57mm field gun to be ready for firing by opening the breech and looking through sight. A half-track drives past. Half tracks and soldiers on side of road. A half track is attached to the carriage M1A3 and tows the 57 MM gun M1 away.
A training film on M-16 rifles starts. Three men seated inside a room in a conversation, after which they leave. A soldier hidden in a foxhole in a forest area, carrying an M-16 rifle, setting target. Another soldier joins him. Silhouette of a man walking in the forest, man is shot and then is carried away. Six soldiers standing in a line, carry M-16 rifle in hands, set targets and shoot.
Sequence begins with views of German He-111 bombers in formation,during World War 2. Scene shifts to Squad of U.S. Army antiaircraft artillerymen surrounding a Sperry Gyroscope M7 director system control unit, in a sand-bagged position, as the soldiers train in the United States. View of a single He-111 is inserted. Battery of U.S. 90mm antiaircraft guns is seen firing under guidance of M7 director system. Scene shifts to a German Me-110 aircraft maneuvering evasively through flak bursts from antiaircraft guns, somewhere in Europe, during World War 2. Scene shifts again, back to Narrator describing operator actions in using M7 artillery control unit, as it is shown in images.
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