ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) military training centers and schools in Vietnam. ARVN students gathering at the practice exercise area. South Vietnamese officers orient cadets seated on the ground. Cadets attacking simulated Vietcong village. Cadets with guns in a field. They advance under enemy fire and take cover. A military jeep on the road. Soldiers running in the field and across the road. Cadets lined up before the officers. Two officers seated at a table under a cloth roof. A cadets salutes and moves on. A cadet searches another cadet posing as a captured Vietcong stretched out on ground. (Vietnam War period).
ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Special Forces Training Center in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. Trainees march along side of the highway. Trainees in fatigues and camouflage hats march with guns. Military trucks and other vehicles pass by on the road. A scooter parked off the road. Trainees walk past a stone structure. Concertina wire by the roadside. Cracks in the road. A soldier smiles as he walks past a patch of grass. Hills in the background. (Vietnam War period).
Hungarian mine sappers (engineer soldiers) trained in Hungary during World War II. The sappers at work. They remove stones, rocks, dig and clear the area. Road rollers at work. Soldiers clear the area. A road roller moves over the road. Sappers collect logs. Logs loaded into horse carts and transported. The soldiers work on a wooden bridge. The bridge under construction.
During World War 2, young German women are trained as telephone and teletype operators in Athens, Greece. Operators put on their uniforms. Women seated at desks, wearing headphones, and practicing telephone and teletype operations. Women operate telephones and teletype machines. They plug and unplug switchboard cables. The instructor supervises. The trainees run up stairs in swim wear to a rooftop area or terrace. They do group callisthenic exercises together. The girls swim. The trainees visit The Acropolis. They tour the monument.
U.S. Army Air Forces Eighth Air Force, VIII Fighter Command operations in Germany during World War II. 15 April 1944: Lieutenant General JN Mcelroy of the 355th Fighter Group 358th Squadron attacks ground targets. He strafes an airdrome and a train. Smoke due to the bombardment and firing. An aircraft on the ground. Black smoke rises up into the air.
U.S. OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officers train Burmese recruits in Burma during World War II. American and Burmese instructors with the students on a path in the jungle. The instructor gives instructions and demonstrates mine laying near huts in a clearing. The students watch. The y mark positions on either side of the road and lay mines. The recruits in camouflaged hats. The instructors demonstrate and inspect. The students lay mines in the thick foliage. Dust flies on the jungle path.
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