The role of women in in the United States Army. A nurse helps an injured soldier in a hospital. A physiotherapist moves the leg of a soldier. A women dietitian works in the laboratory. View of Congress, on June 1948, during passage of the Women's Armed Services Act. Colonel Mary A. Hallaren being appointed as the first WAC officer in the regular Army of the United States. General George Marshall witnesses the appointment and swears in Sergeant Bates, as the first enlisted woman in the regular Army, as Colonel Hallaren witnesses. Women recruits arrive at WAC processing center by train. They get into a bus. Women enter the WAC training center. They are issued uniforms. Women being taught military matters in open air classrooms. WAC in close order drill, and donning gas masks.
Australian Army jungle warfare training school students trained in jungle warfare in Canungra, Australia. Australian students charge through the woods, sight target and fire. Men advance through the jungle fall to the ground and return fire. Troops move along the road and conceal themselves in growth along the roadsides. (World War II period).
Views from a moving railroad train, of a raging river. The train travels along a track at the edge of the river and passes by a station platform with stairs descending towards the river bank.
Italian Equestrian teams at a training center in Pinerolo, Italy. Cavalry officers jump over fenced area as part of the training. They climb raised platform and jump down the fence. Building in the background.
Kyoto Firemen Training School, Japan. Japanese student firemen go through various phases of training. Student firemen run. Buildings in the background. Student firemen stand at attention in front of a wooded area. Two jeeps in a garage. The jeeps of firemen taken out of the garage. Several firemen stand on one of the jeeps, some jeep get down. They take out the fire hoses and join the others. Two men unload equipment from jeep.
Military Training Grounds in Montreal, Canada during World War 1. Canadian recruits, in uniform, are given realistic training in trenches similar to those in the battlefields of Europe for World War I. They crouch in trenches and fire their weapons including machine guns. Two men climb a raised platform and fire a machine gun concealed by brush. Officers stand outside a sandbagged bunker as new recruits, still in civilian clothes, follow several uniformed soldiers out of the bunker. Sign on bunker reads: "Enlist Here." Recruits in uniform, work in field digging trenches and dugouts.
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