An electric railway at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany. People standing at the railroad station. A train moving at the railway track. Driver at the controls of the train. Mountains in the snow covered area. Exterior of a building. A hotel amidst the snow. People seated on chairs in the balcony of hotel and watching the area. Cable cars carry people to the top of a mountain. People walking towards a building and watching the area.
A film features the training of U.S. soldiers. A statue of soldiers in the U.S. Soldiers marching in a field during World War II. They hold rifles. The soldiers standing at attention. They are being trained for various jobs. The soldiers learn to fire artillery. Skiers learn skiing basics on a snow covered area. Some soldiers aboard a jeep learn various maneuvers. Soldiers aboard a tank. Others working on an electric pole. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Aerial view of soldiers marching in formation. A painting of a historical war in which the soldiers are standing aboard a boat and holding a U.S. flag. The soldiers standing at attention.
A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States, featuring women recruits of the Army during World War 2. A railroad train moving on a track toward camera, with smoke or steam billowing out locomotive stack. Animated map shows training centers of the WAAC. Women walking towards a center with their personal belongings. Some of the women coming out of vehicles. They talk amongst themselves. 'Reception Center' written outside a building. Their measurements are taken for shoes and uniforms. A doctor undertakes their physical examination. Aerial view of the camp. Women inside barracks. Women wearing uniforms and getting out of the barracks.
A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States during World War II. WAACs parade at the end of their training period. Officers review them. Recruits stand at attention and are ready to serve the army. An officer seated at his desk in an office. A woman stands nearby. A woman driving a jeep. Another woman repairs a jeep. The WAACs prepare food for soldiers. Animated map locates work areas of the women. A train passing on a railway track. Newly assigned WAACs arrive at their quarters. Ships in a harbor. The first WAAC detachment in North Africa. Clerical, technical and other types of work done by the WAACs. They work with soldiers. They draw military maps and charts. Group of African American women soldiers relieve African American male soldiers working as switchboard operators. Women are shown serving as dispatchers, as typists, developing film in photographic laboratories, serving as pigeoneers who handle carrier pigeons used in war communications, serving as radio operators, issuing clothing in quartermaster houses, working in post offices, fingerprinting, and collecting rations at a commissary. Female African American soldiers and and female white soldiers work at a motor pool. The WAACs marching.
The United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARS) working in the Atlantic City, New Jersey. Long lines of women seated in chairs inside a building during radio training. They complete a five months radio course to be radio operators during World War 2, freeing more men for duty on the war front. Women marching outside Coast Guard buildings. A board on a building reads: 'US Coast Guard Training Station'. The women receive radio operator certificates, awarded by Commander Dorothy Stratton during a ceremony. Women SPARS in Coast Guard uniforms smiling after receiving their certificates.
U.S. soldiers at a training camp in the United States during World War I. Soldiers standing on the grounds of the training camp. A group of African American recruits standing in a line. Closeup views of U.S. Army African American soldiers in uniform. Buildings of the camp in the background. Group of soldiers march holding rifles. They pose.
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