A winter warfare training in Germany during World War II. A few men on a snow covered area. A German General and a few officers standing in front of a building. German troops moving in columns on the snow covered ground. The General and military personnel walking on the snow. The troops fire and advance on the snow covered ground during a winter warfare training session. The General shakes hands with the officers.
The United States Army Quartermaster Corps in the United States during World War II. A diagrammatic comparison of army manpower of 8,000,000 in December 1943 as against 1,750,000 in December 1941. A diagrammatic representation of huge increase in volume of obligated procurement in 1942 as against 1941. Men wheeling carts of supplies at a store. Men carrying supplies coming down a gangway from a ship onto a dock. Soldiers with guns standing on the dock. Soldiers moving through a wooded area. Men carrying the procured materials for storing. Officers watching the men. Two soldiers wearing their uniforms. People and vehicles moving on a city street. A signboard on a building reads 'Office of the Quartermaster General War Department'. The headquarters building in view. A map of the U.S. showing locations of different procuring offices across the nation. Men and women working in an office at the headquarters. Petroleum, Subsistence and Textile sections at the headquarters. Officers working in the headquarters. Men getting into a truck. Enlisted men being trained in various quartermaster operations at a training center.
Cadets of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, Long Island, New York, are seen on parade. Crew of the nuclear-powered NS Savannah, will include some graduates from Kings Point. Scene in classroom where highly experienced merchant marine officers and engineers are being trained for positions in the Savannah crew. They are being indoctrinated and trained to run a ship requiring them to operate a nuclear reactor and associated systems. Included are seen students from foreign nations who were invited to attend the classes. Students are seen in various classes, and settings, including a mockup of the Savannah's control room, containing a reactor simulator.
Second Class Midshipmen launch their flight training with a descent into a pool in a Dilbert Dunker at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annaolis, Maryland. A ditching course for training the pilots to learn how to correctly escape a submerged airplane. The Dilbert Dunker descends into a pool. A pilot seated in the Dilbert Dunker. He gets it out and swims.
Japanese repatriates return to Japan from Russia. Japanese ship Daiiku Maru underway in sea. Mountains in the background. Smoke rises from the chimney of a ship. Japanese repatriates stand near the railing of the ship. A sign on the ship reads : "Daiiku Maru". The repatriates arrive in a truck at a center. Trucks loaded with prisoners. The prisoners get off from a truck. Interior of a train: The repatriates seated in a train. A sign outside a building: " Maizuru Repatriates Relief Bureau" in Maizuru, Kyoto.
Contrasts innocent play of children in America with military play and training in Axis countries during World War 2. View of children playing games and on jungle gym in United States. Scene changes to Germany, with German boys climbing over and around artillery pieces under watchful eye of a uniformed German official. Next shows children in Japan staging military training and a charge across a mock battlefield. Next scene shows boys in Italy in uniform engaged in a mock battle charge and putting on gas masks between advances. Also seen during the clip: The Japanese flag is raised, as well as the Nazi flag and an Italian flag. Slogan of the Japanese Army: ' To die for Emperor is to live forever'. Back in the United States, a woman collects funds to help Japanese children affected by an earthquake. Children pass by the collection bin and place money in the jar.
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