United States soldiers and new recruits at a camp in the U.S. before outbreak of World War II. New recruits and U.S. Army soldiers in training run obstacle course. Soldiers in their uniforms march through the camp area. Tents in the background. Newly drafted U.S Army soldiers learn to fire weapons on firing range using artificial wooden rifles. U.S. soldiers seen training with wooden replica machine guns and using empty Adelphi beer cans as substitute artillery ammunition for training purposes. Teams of soldiers compete in moving a giant ball. They compete in blindfolded boxing on their knees. Lacking adequate war materiel for training, they make do by pretending that trucks are tanks and labeling them with such signs. They pretend with wooden guns and throw flour sacks instead of grenades. Scenes of the Pearl Harbor raid by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941. Views of the USS Arizona being hit and various ships on fire soon after the attack. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt is seen addressing Congress, where he asks for a declaration of war against Japan.
Jewish orphans liberated from Nazi Buchenwald Concentration Camp leave Weimar, Germany in a train after World War II. Jewish orphans look out from the windows of the train. A Jewish flag hanging from a train window. A sign reads 'Buchenwald'. Signs hanging from the displaced persons train: "Orpheims Juifs de Buchenwald" (Orphaned youth of Buchenwald) and "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill".
Jewish orphans leave Buchenwald, Germany in a train at end of World War II in Europe, and following liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Jewish boy and girl orphans look out from the windows of the train. A Jewish flag hanging from a train window. Jewish children posing. Smiling faces of displaced Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and French, Jewish orphans. Close up views of faces of some of the orphan children and groups of orphaned children, survivors of the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Signs on a side of the train such as, "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and "Orphaned youth of Buchenwald."
Leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Marshal Tito talks with his Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Vladimir Clementis in a train. View of Prague Petrovice station. Other men in group talking. A crowd at a station. Marshal Tito at a window of the train acknowledging the throng's greeting. The train moves off. The crowd waves. Marshal Tito at a window. Marshal Tito leaves the train in Prague and is greeted by Czech Prime Minister Zdenek Fierlinger and others. A crowd waving at Prague station. A car pulls away. A huge poster on a building with Tito's picture. The car enters the Prague Castle (Hradčany, 119 08 Prague 1, Czechia). Marshal Tito reviews an honor guard.
An American hospital train in Toul, France during World War I. Wounded U.S. soldiers on litters are removed from ambulances. The wounded soldiers leave a truck at a rail road station. They embark on an AEF (American Expeditionary Force) hospital train. Soldiers on litters are carried into the train. Wounded soldiers in the train.
A film titled: 'Paratroops' on general and special training of U.S. paratroopers. Paratroopers descending with the help of parachutes in the United States. The paratroopers march in formation. They exercise during their training. They are being trained on a tower mock up. An instructor trains them. They practice with parachutes and a wind machine. A man jumps from the tower mock up. He is being hoisted by a cable. Men packing a parachute. Paratroopers climbing out from a dummy airplane. They jump from the tower mock up with an already inflated parachute.
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