General Dwight Eisenhower advises to pass universal military training in the United States. Officials on stage. Other dignitaries in the Congressional Committee. General Eisenhower talks about compulsory military training. He states that it is an important step towards maintaining peace and protecting America's freedom.
Berea College prepares students for life. The graduates of Berea teach at a school in other coal town. Young children in class. A graduate from Berea teaches them. Students of the school play. School near railway track. Schools in larger community. A Berea trained officer and teacher talk. A modern hospital in mining town. Trained doctors stand outside the hospital, with sign over door that says "Doctor Stacy and Doctor Maw." Doctors treat a patient of mine accident.
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Special Forces Training Center in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Trainees march along side of the highway. Trainees in fatigues and camouflage hats march with guns. Two wheelers pass by on the road. Trainees march through a field towards the training area. Trees on either side of the path. The trainees rest in the shade of a tree. (Vietnam War period).
The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Amphibious landings of the first wave of Allied troops including Signal Corps Units in Normandy, France on D Day during World War 2. The Joint Assault Signal Companies (a Signal Corps Unit that accompanies the soldiers on every beach landing) go ashore in Normandy. Soldiers in landing crafts approach the beach. Landing crafts anchored along the shore line. A U.S. flag on the beach. Crafts approach the beach. U.S. Army Signal Corps combat photographers using motion picture cameras to film the battle that ensues on the beach and in the fields. Gun fire and explosions in the battlefield, filmed by combat cameraman. Allied aircraft in flight. Airmen load weekly film reports of the war in all Theaters made by Signal Corps officers from a van into an aircraft. The films are sent to the Photographic Center in New York. A soldier assembles the films. Technicians organize and arrange the films. They place the film reels onto racks. The film content is used to make training and orientation films for the U.S. troops. Troops watch the films in order to cut down the training period, and stay informed about the order of event in other Theaters of Operation. The films include 'Why We Fight' and 'The Fighting Men' series. Clips and recordings from these films.
Italian troops mobilize during World War 2. Italian soldiers pack their back packs and prepare to march forward. The troops begin to march to trains bound for Russia. The military band plays as they march. A huge crowd of civilians on the streets. Men, women, and children watch as the troops march towards the trains. People hold miniature Italian flags and cheer the soldiers. Civilians gather on either side of the road as the soldiers move ahead.
U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 18 April 1944: Lieutenant Norman of the 355th Fighter Group 355th Squadron attacks ground targets. He strafes a German train, marshaling yards, and a military truck convoy. Smoke from the wrecked train. The bombed marshalling yards and burning trucks.
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