U.S. Naval Fleet Training Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Training in submarine simulator. Naval Commander gives order and the simulator physically emulates movements of a submarine in response to crew actions. View of "trainer controls" panel. Crew members operate the simulated submarine in response to instructions from the instructors. Simulator commences a steep dive.
A large group of soldiers in 1930s U.S. Army uniform practice bayonet attacks in two circles. One soldier is at the center of the circle with the training stick, calling the soldiers in the circle in towards him one at a time to practice with the training stick. Narrator describes the exercise. Soldiers performing the same exercise, this time with their backs turned so that they do not know when they will be called to the center of the circle. Demonstration and description of another exercise, this time a competition between the soldiers for accuracy and proficiency with the bayonet attacks.
German training or propaganda reel from World War II. German paratroopers being dropped from two Junkers Ju-52 three-engine transport aircraft. Their chutes open immediately and billow out. The chutes of the descending paratroops fill the sky.
United States 6th Engineer Battalion in Chateau Thierry, France during World War I.. The 6th Engineer Battalion receives hot chocolate from the Young Men Christian Association (Y.M.C.A) before entering St. Eugene. A cart in the background. A woman pours chocolate in the mugs of the troops. The troops with rifles on their shoulders. A man puts the hot chocolate in a container which is kept on the cart. The troops move in a foxhole carrying rifles and mugs in their hands.
MACV (US Military Assistance Command, Vietnam) Advisory Team assists South Vietnamese soldiers in the evacuation of refugees from Kontum during the Nguyen Hue Campaign of the Vietnam War. Local Vietnamese in coolie hats near bicycles on a road. Soldiers on a tank as it moves along on a road. Billowing smoke on ridge from USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress air strikes. South Vietnamese soldiers, U.S. M-60 tanks and a U.S. Army Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopter nearby. South Vietnamese positions around a helipad. Aerial view of the area. Smoke on ridge. Bomb craters and terrain damage in jungle foliage on the ridge. Officers observing bomb damage through open door of the helicopter. An American officer speaking into the radio headset. The pilot at controls in the cockpit.
Church religious preacher Bishop C M Grace (Marcelino Manuel da Graça, also known as "Sweet Daddy Grace" of the United House of Prayer) baptizes 500 brethren and sisters at the seashore of Newport News, Virginia, United States. Preacher leads them into water and performs the religious ceremony of washing away their sins. African American onlookers watch and hold the baptized women. Many people dance and celebrate, overcome with emotion.
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