The series 'The Big Picture' about armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. A board reads 'Nelson Pass Tactical Area'. An instructor briefs trainees. The trainees sit and listen. They move out of a hall and pick up ammunition from the ground. Tanks are driven away. Instructors in a jeep along with the tanks. A trainee speaks over a radio device. High ranking officers observe from an observation pole. An aircraft spreads a smoke screen. The tanks are driven forward. One of the tanks fires artillery mounted on it. The tanks are driven back after the completion of the task. A trainee writes a letter to his parents. Master Sergeant Stewart Queen speaks about the successful completion of the training.
A steam locomotive, pulling a passenger train of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad arrives at a railway station in Michigan. Passengers get off the train. Curved railroad tracks in the foreground. Parked cars. A train pulls out of the railway station. People on a railway platform. Buildings and a water storage tank near the railway station.
Film about the city and industry of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Automobile and pedestrian traffic on the roads and streets in Chicago. Skyscrapers and the Wrigley Building on Michigan Avenue. Exterior of the Merchandise Mart building. Interiors of a factory in Merchandise Mart. Hot metal being lifted from a furnace. Steel manufacturing plant scenes. Material being heated in a furnace. Men work to assemble parts of a machine in a factory. Women work assembling new typewriters in a factory. Men paint and prepare a Pullman Palace Car railroad car at the Calumet Works near Lake Calumet - the railroad train car's main manufacturing plan. It is marked as being for the New York Central railroad. The assembly line of diesel railroad locomotive trains in La Grange. A newly manufactured locomotive pulling train cars as it exits the factory area.
View from inside an AC-119K Stinger Gunship during live fire training missions. Hand of a crewman on the fire control panel in the gunship. He flips toggle switches enabling the four GAU-2/A miniguns on the AC-119K. Views of a gun firing in broad daylight. Another view of firing in dusk with stream of tracers visible. The gunship is with the 4413th Combat Crew Training Squadron with home base at Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio. But the live fire gunnery training is being carried out in the vicinity of Hurlburt Field, Florida.
Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, United States (home of the Tuskegee Airmen). Instructor explains gauges inside the Piper Cub training aircraft. View of the direction gauge in the aircraft. Instructor points to the RPM meter on panel of aircraft. Oil gauge in the aircraft. Temperature and altitude gauge in the aircraft. The instructor and student in the aircraft. An airman removes the stop in front of wheel of aircraft. African American student looks out of the aircraft. African American crew member rotates propeller of the aircraft.
Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (home of the Tuskegee Airmen) during World War 2. A signal flag on pole. Instructor removes oil tank cap of the Piper Cub training aircraft. He tightens the cap. Fuel supply switches on panel. Engine of the aircraft. African American student or crew member rotates propeller of aircraft and looks at the engine. Student places the kit inside the aircraft. Aircraft taxis on a field.
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