United States Army Air Force 8th Fighter Command gun camera footage of attacking targets in Europe during World War II. Lieutenant E J Timony of 63rd squadron 56th fighter group flying the aircraft. United States Army Air Force aircraft attacking the ground targets as seen from gun camera footage. High altitude view of the area. Strafing and bombing of train. Explosion on ground. Strafing of electrical substation. Aircraft crashes. Smoke arises due to the explosion. (World War II period).
British Army maneuvers. British soldiers march along a road with their field gear and Vickers Armstrong Utility Tractors, each towing a small trailer. They disperse into training area and set up positions. A crew mans a machine gun and fires it. The soldiers take time out to eat. Cooks ladle out soup with potatoes.
America prepares for World War II. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (codified as 54 Stat. 885). He signs and dates September 16, 1940. A blindfolded man reaches into a large glass container and draws out the number of the first young man to be drafted under the new law. He gives the selected number to President Roosevelt. American soldiers march past a line of tents at an Army Camp. They drill on the parade field.
The Battle for the eastern Gustav Line. Snow covered mountains in Italy. British troops being re-supplied with food fuel and ammunition by means of mule trains run by Italian Army troops under Allied control. Wounded British soldier on stretcher is carried high above the snow on shoulders of comrades. British artillery directed toward German positions in Majella mountains. New Zealand troops unloading supplies at their position less than a mile from the Germans. The supplies include snow capes to camouflage the infantrymen. The New Zealanders don the snow capes and proceed through the snow. (World War II period).
A U.S. Navy recruitment film about interest of high school students in the Navy in the United States. A man asks a group of students to give their views about navy training school and its similarity with normal high school. The students give their views. An African American teenage boy exercises lifting weights, his friend describes about his voice and acting in play Hamlet. His friend ask him why he wants to join the navy? He says that a boy like him has better opportunities there.
United States Army training film about the attitude of athletes and soldiers of the United States in World War II. The film is titled 'Fighting Men', 'Kill or Be Killed'. Narrator contrasts fair fight tactics in sports in the United States versus the kill or be killed attitude necessary to win in war. Opens with series of scenes of players playing various sports, seemingly at college and professional level for most: boxing, baseball, basketball and ice hockey. Two young boy boxers compete in a boxing ring with a referee looking on who is wearing a Navy sweatshirt. Runners at a race track in a track and field race. A tennis player preparing to serve a ball. A football game. Soldiers run in a field and fire while in prone position. A soldier fires machine guns while the other holds the bullet belt. Bomb explosion on a battlefield. Artillery and soldiers at a front during a war.
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