An audience of well-dressed people at railroad construction site watch as an old man drives the final spike to complete a section of railroad in a rugged part of the Western United States. The scene shifts to views from a train inaugurating travel over the new rail line. It passes between rocky walls and through a short tunnel. View from locomotive as it proceeds around a curve, revealing a long line of passenger cars comprising the train.
U.S. Army gun crews manning railroad guns as they proceed along a railroad. A field filled with massive columns of thousands of American soldiers in precise formations, performing drills. Army demolition teams blowing up parts of hillside to prepare defensive positions. Bulldozers and steam shovels removing rock and earth. Railroad gun crews maneuver their gun barrels as their train is in motion. Steam locomotive train moving and pulling the railroad guns.
Training flights at Floyd Bennett Field, New York. Officer trains the Naval Air Reserve airmen in a hall. They study the map on a wall. Officers arrive near airplanes parked on the airfield. They board the planes and the planes take off. Planes in formation.
The 71st Infantry Regiment of the 44th Division, New York / New Jersey National Guard arrive at a Fort Dix, N.J. for training. Guardsmen and new recruits coming out of train at railroad station. They march towards the camp. They are seen erecting tents and setting up a complete camp on the field. Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, First Army commander, in glasses, wearing campaign hat, and Major General Clifford R. Powell, 44th Division commander, wearing garrison cap, pose in front of the Fort Dix Officers Club. Soldiers taking their belongings to the tents. KPs and mess attendant peel potatoes for a meal. One soldier sets up as a barber and shaves others. After camp is set up, some soldiers are seen resting on cots inside their tents. (World War II period).
Between World War 1 and World War 2, training for French citizens for possible air raids in Paris, France. Members of a volunteer group supported by the government are trained for action against an air raid menace. The volunteers wear gas masks and gas-impregnated clothing and come out of air raid shelters. They get in a jeep and ride through the city streets. They escort civilians into gas-proof shelters. Dramatize film showswhat destruction might look like during an air raid. Dramatization: Aircraft shell the city. Bombs explode, fire in the city and buildings get damaged. Actual footage of practice drills in Paris where 'Victims' of the air raid are removed from the streets and are carried to the shelters.
Damage caused to rail road trains and tracks due to Vietnam War. Map of South Vietnam. Passenger cars of a train in yards. Engine pulls on a track. Several cars lay off a track due to debris on the rail road track. Cars derailed. Group of villagers stand on a porch.
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