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.
A steam locomotive train arrives at a train station in Arak, Iran during World War II. Iranian and Indian Sikh soldiers meet and shake hands in train station. United States soldiers disembark to go into the mess area at the station and greet each other on the train platform. American soldier pulls out a cigarette and puts it in his mouth.
A steam locomotive train carrying freight pauses in the desert in Iran during World War II. Train engineer and brakeman exit the train and receive new orders from a dispatcher. Iranian train engineer reads dispatch before climbing back into the locomotive.
United States General Joseph Stilwell discusses plan with Major General Frank Dow Merrill during World War 2. Insignia of the China Burma India Theater (CBI). Nationalist Chinese soldiers march toward a United States Army Air Force transport plane to India. USA Army Air Force plane takes off, heading for India. At the U.S. Army Chinese Training and Combat Command at Ramgarh, India, Chinese soldiers train under the United States Army leadership. Aerial view of tents and buildings at Ramgarh. General Stilwell personally instructs Chinese soldiers as they shoot at targets while in prone position. Chinese troops charge out of a trench, crawl with guns under barbed wire, and avoid gun fire and explosions. India Command Formation insignia. British General Archibald Wavell inspects soldiers in formation. General Archibald Wavell shares a map with Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, who was made Commander in Chief, India, for the British. British Indian soldiers seen in training, as they lift logs, jump over obstacles, climb ropes, and practice jumping from a parked airplane fuselage during parachute training. Next, soldiers are seen jumping out of an aircraft in flight with parachutes. British Indian soldiers descending with parachutes. United States soldiers unload supplies. Allied soldiers marching. Indian infantry marching in farmland. Gurkha soldiers from Nepal march with donkeys. Naga headhunters from Assam and northwestern Burma. East and West African soldiers. British colonial regiment, the Burma Rifles marching. Soldiers from the Kachin people of Burma and Southwestern China. Allied soldiers in India coming from various races- Scots, Irish, English, Welsh, Australian, New Zealander, Indian, Gurkha, Burman, African, Chinese and American. Multinational army from Allied countries.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II arrives by train to witness the 1918 Spring Offensive (also known as the Kaiserschlacht or “Kaiser’s Battle”) during World War I. A moving steam locomotive train. Kaiser Wilhelm II salutes to a senior German military official after disembarking from the train. Kaiser Wilhelm II speaking with a senior German military official. A smiling military assistant salutes Kaiser Wilhelm before joining him on the train station platform. Military officers put coats on Kaiser Wilhelm II and the senior military official before assisting them into the car.
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