New recruits engage in close order drill with rifles, at the U.S. Great Lakes Naval Training Center in World War 2. They execute the manual of arms with their rifles. A dozen or more recruits in a dory, practice rowing in unison. Change of scene shows sailors responding to general quarters manning guns aboard a USS Pennsylvania class battleship. They fire the ship's guns. A bow view of the battleship making way as her forward triple turrets are firing to port. Recruits standing at attention when an officer enters the barracks. Navy commissioned officers displaying the same courtesy when a superior officer enters their ward room.
Naval reservists at the Naval Station Great Lakes training center in Illinois, United States, circa 1917. The World War 1 U.S. Navy reservists standing on the parade ground and demonstrating their activities. The reservists demonstrating stretcher drill. People gather on the ground and watch the sailor demonstrations. The reservists demonstrate a machine gun. The soldiers firing the machine gun. Smoke rises from the firing of the machine gun.
View of 2 long parallel lines of American men in civilian clothing, carrying suitcases, and arriving at a U.S. Army training camp in the United States during World War 1. The new recruits or draftees heading into camp. Next scene shows a large field area filled with newly uniformed American soldiers. An officer stands on a platform above the soldiers. The soldiers all take seats on the ground for an address. The officer addresses the soldiers. The soldiers stand again at the end of the address.
United States Marines in the Arctic region. Marines walk on a snow covered surface. Tents in the background. A Marine speaks over a phone. The Marines walk with rifles in hand. An explosion on a hillside. A board reads 'Cold Weather Battalion'. Marine Cold Weather Training Camp. The American flag on a pole. The Marines arrive at the camp by a bus. 'Camp Pendleton' written behind the bus. The Marines in trucks. An instructor instructs a group of Marines. Two Marines learn to pitch a tent in snow. A Marine sleeps in a snow cave. The Marines shave and clean their feet with hot water.
United States Marines at a Marine Cold Weather Training Camp in the Arctic region. The Marines with rifles in hand walk on a snow covered surface. A Marine in camouflaged clothing. The Marines rest in their camps. They defend their ground during a sudden attack. A Marine fires a rifle form a trench. The Marines load and fire artillery.
The Cryptology Training Institute in Pensacola, Florida. A security guard at an entrance gate checks visitors A cryptologic officer briefs a group of trainees. He shows them how to take readings on an instrument. A radar screen. The trainees operate controls. Two women read a manual. A fleet of aircraft in flight. Cryptologic officers with headphones operate controls. A submarine and a ship underway at sea. A cryptologic officer seated at a desk in his office reads documents. Vehicles on a road. A tree in the foreground.
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