Pilots receive 'avigation' training in Rockwell Field, California. Pilot students in an airplane, which departs for Rockwell Field. Pilot looks at a map. Aerial view of downtown San Diego and the Hotel del Coronado. View of the fields, mountains, and ship at sea. Student pilots disembark from plane. Two officers give instruction regarding instrument flying and navigation. A map on a board in the background. Various bullet points regarding ground and air instructions for instrument navigation appear on the screen.
Avigation training to students in Rockwell field, California. Instructor in rear cockpit of O-38. Student under blind flying hood in front cockpit of O-38. Instructor talks on the radio. Student pulls the blind flying hood over front cockpit. Plane takes off. Man works on the engine. Chart shows how radio compass operates in connection to radio range station. High altitude view of radio towers on the field. Chart shows entry and approach of the plane making landing by use of radio range stations. Chart shows line and angle of approach of planes landing by the use of radio.
Motorcade of Imperial limousines with motorcycle escorts proceeds through gates of an officer's training base in Japan, during World War 2. Emperor Hirohito, on a white horse, is accompanied by other mounted military officers as he rides past officer candidates drawn up in formation. The emperor salutes the candidates. A number of officer candidates in white uniforms, and steel helmets, carrying rifles, demonstrate their skills running through an obstacle course, including a high barrier that must be scaled, as senior officers watch. Several candidates demonstrate gymnastic skills, performing giant swings on horizontal bars. The emperor stands alone, observing, as other candidates perform stunts across various barriers.
U.S. Navy World War 2 training film about artillery in landing operations. Opening scene shows a marine reading artillery settings aloud. Then gunners load their 105mm howitzer and fire it. Next scenes show more howitzers in a field also firing. View of a control tent, where marines wearing headsets communicate with the howitzer batteries. The batteries receive the instruction: "CSMO" (Close Station March Order). Firing ceases and gun crews police up their positions and board jeeps to their command post. One the way, one marine sitting in the back of an MZ jeep, talks on a TCS radio. At the Command Post, several battery leaders meet over a planning table where they receive orders for an amphibious exercise. Amphibious vehicles (DUKWs) arrive, equipped with A-frames. Film shows how the A-frame is set up and employed to raise a howitzer. Then another DUKW backs under the suspended field piece which is lowered into its cargo space. Other guns and DUKWs arrive to repeat the process. Gunners are shown spreading a tarpaulin and placing it on their howitzer, in the DUKW, as extra protection against water. Other DUKWs arrive with the battery's howitzers and marines rig tarps on them as well.
United States Navy training film on 'Disorientation Crashes'. Animated film describes disorientation and how instruments solve the problem when flying.
Cadets in uniform march in formation at the Naval Aviation Academy in Pensacola, Florida. They march in front of the buildings of the Naval Aviation Academy. They learn discipline, team work and spirit of service in the Academy. Cadets on the ship at sea trained about the working of the ship. They learn signaling and about guns use. They learn to operate the ship . Cadets in cockpit of a plane. The plane taxis in water. They learn various hand signals like bringing up left wing and turn left. Plane in flight. Other planes take off.
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