A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. Two men in a house where one of them is wearing a head-phone and listening through a transmitter / receiver equipment. It is night time and two men in an open field are watching an airplane in flight. A parachutist ejects from the plane in flight. Parachutist descends and lands on the ground. The two men receive the parachutist. A ship moving, a small boat coming from the ship towards the shore. Two men are rowing the boat and they reach the shore. (World War II period).
A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. Two men in apron can be seen working in a kitchen and talking. A well dressed man steps out of a tram, starts walking. The man checks out various hotels and houses from outside, meets a lady in alleyway. Finally he enters a hotel named 'Europa Hotel'. View of boat moving in water. A man and a woman sitting in a restaurant and talking, A man sitting alone on a different table. Woman leaves the man and sits with the other one. They talk. (World War II period).
A dramatized training film created by OSS (Office of Strategic Services) for training of secret agents. A man in a hotel room moving to and fro. He is thinking, then he just sits down, reads something in a newspaper. He stands up and starts getting ready. A housekeeper comes inside the room. Man speaks to a lady. Man then goes out of hotel and walks on the alleyway, encounters a Nazi policeman on the way, speaks to him and then proceeds.
Film reenacts events in lives of American pioneers migrating West via wagon trains in the early 19th Century. They are seen traveling in the day, and then resting for the night by a fire, where a family bows their heads as the father speaks a prayer of thanks for their progress. He ends the prayer with an “Amen.” Next, the wagon train sets out again, during the daylight. A series of illustrations shows scenes of a small town in the winter with snow on the ground. People are shown going about their ordinary activities, using horses and sleighs. Some are seen ice skating on a pond. Others are shown visiting relatives.
A U.S. Navy Training demonstrates the methods of chancery against low frontal attack, arm drag and the leg pick as part of training in hand to hand combat, United States. Two sailors show chancery against low frontal attack. One of the sailors attacks the other from front. The other sailor puts one of his arms beneath the shoulder of the attacker, passes his other arm beneath the attacker's neck to lock it and delivers a kick to the opponent. Next they demonstrate the Arm drag. The second sailor uses one of his arms to hold the wrist and secures the elbow of the opponent with his other arm. He stamps on the foot of the attacker and drags at his arms which cause both to fall. Now they demonstrate Leg pick up. The second sailor grasps both the legs of the attacker just above his knees, raises him, holds him and drops him on the floor. (World War II period).
The Chindits or the Indian 3rd Infantry Division of the British Indian Army in Burma in World War 2. The troops with a pack train consisting of mules enter into a Burma village. They load and fire mortars and machine guns. A Chindit looks through a pair of binoculars. Firing in the village toward Japanese held Mogaung. Chinese troops move to join the Chindits. The soldiers and the pack train move forward. The Chinese troops in a reunion with the Chindits exchange hats and greet. A plane strafes Japanese positions. Smoke due to explosions. Machine guns are fired. Japanese forces abandon Mogaung and Chindit and Chinese soldiers move in to the destroyed area. Dead enemy Japanese soldiers amid the ruins. Three Chindits posing near a Burmese Pagoda, honoring the mythical creatures that are their namesake guarding a Pagoda.
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