German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses officials in Germany. German military aircraft in flight . Bombs falling on targets. German troops march through streets. U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, at a desk in his office, signs the Selective Service Training Act of 1940. Officials mix serial numbers in a glass container. President Roosevelt announces the serial numbers of the men drafted into the U.S. Army. A large crowd of civilians gathered on the streets await the announcement. Selected men are shown in all places and in all walks of life, in the United States, including an African American man. The men undergo a medical and physical checkup at the induction center to begin service as new military recruits. Those inducted receive basic training and begin tours of duty in the U.S. Army. (World War II period). Background music during recruitment scenes is a chorus singing "This is the Army Mr Jones" by Irving Berlin.
A training of U.S. Army Ranger Regiment at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. The Army Rangers mud fight and run through a field during a training. The rangers crawl in a barbed wire covered trench. They cross hurdles and crawl from under a wooden trunk. They wrestle with each other. They climb up a wooden wall and cross a river using a rope. The rangers cross a rope bridge. They learn repelling and mountaineering technique. The rangers disembark from aircraft and advance through a field. They walk through a jungle and cross a river during a patrolling mission. Trucks, jeeps and tanks loaded with rangers drive through a field.
A training at the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. Trucks loaded with infantry soldiers drive through a field. Paratroopers descend from airborne aircraft. The soldiers jump from a wall and somersault during their training. They jump from a tower using ropes and then using parachutes. They jump from aircraft in flight. They also learn to carry their supplies and equipment
Communication training at the U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning in Georgia, United States. A soldier drives a jeep through a jungle. Another soldier communicates with others over a field telephone. Soldiers receive training for installation, operation, maintenance and repair of communication equipment. They learn to operate radio telephones, teletypes and radio teller tapes, telephones and telephone switch boards. A soldier carries wire reels to be laid for communication. An officer talks over a field telephone and orders the soldiers to advance through a field.
Training of U.S. Army infantrymen in the United States in the year 1928. Infantrymen read notes during their training. They learn to handle causalities in better ways. They learn to load and fire artillery. They also learn air raid techniques.
Training of U.S. Army infantrymen in the United States in the year 1940. Infantrymen climb down a net during their physical training. Supplies are carried down. They do push ups on a field. They learn to advance on a field. They climb obstacles and cross obstacle courses. War scenes depict infantrymen advancing on the battlefields in the European and the Pacific Theater. They load and fire artillery.
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