Republic of Korea Navy sailors at recreational activities while under training at a training center in Korea. Two sailors in an arm wrestling match. Sailors laugh during the match. Sailors play in a band. Other sailors enjoy listening to the band. Sailors wrestle thumbs. A sailors reads. Sailors sleep. An officer flashes torch light on the sailors on a night round. The sailor lights a candle and takes out a book from a shelf. The sailor reads from the book.
Pilot training on the Piper J-3 Cub training aircraft from Tuskegee University in Alabama, United States (home of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War 2). Moveable horizontal stabilizer of the Piper Cub is demonstrated. The aircraft "S" taxis on a field (proper for tail wheel airplanes, because of limited forward visibility). Trees in the background.
Streets and a subway train in Prague, Czechoslovakia. A man arranges flowers in a flower shop. Flowers arranged in a pot. Traffic on a road in the background. The roof of a subway station. A train pulls into a station. Overhead electrical lines and a signal pole at the station.
Training of high school dropouts from poverty areas in Brooklyn Navy yard, New York. Students learn truck driving at the New York Transportation Training Center. A man starts up a film projector that shows an instructional film to students learning driving skills in a classroom. A students backs a vehicle in a narrow fenced area. A student backs a tractor trailer.
World War 2 training at the U.S. Army Ranger combat training school at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States. Soldiers lying on ground listen to the instructor as he explains booby traps. A instructor speaks on microphone and points to the trap set up. A man throws a Molotov bomb. An ignited Molotov cocktail on ground.
Soldiers go through the assault course with gas masks, under fire, at the U.S. Army Ranger Combat Training School in Fort Shafter, Hawaii, during World War 2. Opening scene shows several trainees in gas masks carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, advancing through rough terrain in which tear gas fumes are seen. Closeup of one soldier, wearing steel helmet and mask, but otherwise stripped to the waist, as he bayonets a stuffed dummy target on the course. He uses his bayonet on another dummy that drops down on him as he scrambles out of a tunnel. Views of other soldiers passing through the same portion of the training course. As they leave the tunnel, they encounter more gas that billows across their path. Change of scene shows the soldiers climbing over obstacles placed in their path. Closeups of some trainees scrambling over obstacles. Some soldiers are seen crawling as camera pans to sniper firing from a palm tree. Next, they must traverse another obstacle and engage two more dummies with their bayonets, next to barbed wire fence. As they pass a steep hill, an explosion occurs raising smoke and causing rocks and dirt to fall down towards them. Next, they must make their way along a ravine lined with barbed wire. One fires his rifle. Closeups of several trainees climbing out of a water filled ravine and crossing a stream on makeshift footholds. Soldiers must run on a log to cross a creek, as explosive charges explode around them. They emerge from a tunnel and charge up a steep dirt hill to encounter another dummy to bayonet. Film ends displaying a sign that exhorts soldiers to embrace killing and reminding them survival requires that they KILL or be KILLED. It is signed by Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It ends: "WE are not going to be killed!"
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