U.S. Army training film depicts operations and uses of tanks during World War II. A M4 Sherman tank moves on a field in the United States. Smoke arises due to firing from the tank and from that of the enemy firing. Men loading and firing guns from the tank. A smoke screen is laid by the tank. Animation shows maneuvers of the tank. The laying of a smoke screen by a tank and thus escaping the enemy.
A film on the logistics and the psychology of war. Primarily shows training exercises, combat simulations, and dramatizations. Images of soldier and explosions. A U.S. sailor firing a Mark 4, 20 mm. anti aircraft. Gun from a ship. A U.S. M3 Stuart light tank heading toward the camera. American soldiers ostensibly falling to enemy explosions and gunfire. A shell exploding where American troops are hunkered down. Artillery batteries firing at night. A soldier cutting barbed wire and triggering a booby trap. . Troops under fire during amphibious assault. Soldiers manning an M1919A4 .30-caliber Light Machine Gun. Troops advancing through forest under fire. Some fall. Staged encounter between U.S. infantrymen and German soldier. The kill each other. Entire battle front erupting in explosions and smoke. Newspaper article by Ernie Pyle about too little training of U.S. troops. New York reporter's article noting that U.S. soldiers in Europe don't understand why they aren't fighting the Japanese who attacked America. Staged hand to hand combat between a German soldier and two American soldiers.
A training of tank destroyer crews in the U.S. during World War II. Trainee soldiers train in front of their supervisors. Trainee soldiers in water. They train under fire and crawl under barbed wires. They are in front of a house while learning the techniques of street fighting. A soldier crouches behind a wall. Another comes out of a door with a pistol in his hand. The trainees operating M3 Gun Motor Carriage half tracks armed with 75mm M1897A4 Guns. They fire their guns at targets including tanks and buildings, creating explosions.
During the Vietnam War, views of armored vehicle evaluations of the 34th Armored Regiment, 4th Infantry Division on training grounds in the United States. Wave of tanks fire machine guns as they cross a field. U.S. M-48 Patton tank stuck in dense bamboo growth. A tank with dozer blade helps to pull the stuck tank out of the bamboo growth. Soldiers chop bamboo beside the tank. Tanks in single file move into dense jungle. Aerial view of wave of tanks crossing the field.
Armored vehicle evaluation of the 34th Armored Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, on training grounds in the United States. M-48 tanks and one M113 armored personnel carrier (APC) deployed in a grassy field. U.S. M-48 Patton tank firing machine gun into a jungle. M88 armored recovery vehicle in front of the knocked out M-48 tank. Aerial view of M-48 tanks moving through the field full of bomb craters.
A training film depicts operations and uses of tanks during World War II. M4 Sherman tank moves on a field in the United States. A model of an enemy pillbox is attacked. The tank fires at the pillbox. Smoke arises due to explosions. Animation shows a medium tank firing. A target board being fired at. M3 Stuart light tank approaches target. Machine guns and other guns are fired.
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