U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. A soldier attaches a message to a carrier pigeon's leg. The soldier opens the door of the cage to release the bird. The carrier pigeon sits on the roof of a military tent.
U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. A hospital flag outside an open tent hospital in a field. A patient taking treatment inside the tent. Rail tank cars on a rail siding. Several gasoline cans stand beside the cars. Soldiers unload the refrigerator car. The soldiers operate the U.S. 75 mm anti-aircraft guns. A U.S. fighter aircraft. In a pan area the gasoline cans being camouflaged by bushes. A ponton bridge. A military truck passes over the bridge. Soldiers guard the bridge with a machine gun.
U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. Spadra General Hospital. The army hospital buildings in the desert. Patients walk on a road. Hospital nurses at the mess. African American soldiers in the mobile laundry trucks. The soldiers operate the laundry. RHD Niland. The aerial view of the desert area. A railhead in the desert. Soldiers with the cartons at the railhead. A few military trucks in the background.
World War 2 training film teaching U.S. soldiers about decontamination of combat vehicles, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Soldiers during a decontamination procedure with real mustard gas. The soldiers in armored vehicles. A group of soldiers prepares for the decontamination. An aircraft flying at low height. A stationary U.S. Army Pershing tank. Two soldiers in a jeep. Soldiers wearing gas masks decontaminate a vehicle. Flashback scenes to August 1918 in World War I in France, with many mustard gas attack victims being cared for at a field hospital (which narrator says is Field Hospital number 326). Medic washing eyes and face of a World War 1 gas attack victim. Next view is a soldier in 1942 with mustard gas burns on his hand, being treated by a medic. Next scene returns to World War 1 in 1918, showing mustard gas burns on arms, hands, legs, and feet of U.S. Army soldiers.
U.S. soldiers train for gas attack and chemical warfare decontamination at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland during World War II. A scientist working in a chemical laboratory with many vials before him. Two soldiers spreading a protective ointment in their hands. A soldier decontaminating a tank. A soldier wearing a mask spraying a protective liquid on a gun. A soldier spreading the protective ointment on his helmet. Many soldiers in front of U.S. Sherman tanks decontaminating cloth covers. Soldiers sitting on a tank cover it with a decontaminated cloth. Two soldiers issue impregnated clothing to a soldier. A World War 2 soldier covers himself with a protective cellophane cover. A soldier decontaminating a half track using Decon filled with DAMC. Soldiers filling a truck with chloride of lime containers.
U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. U.S. soldier is wearied after exercise wearing gas mask . He is tired and sits besides tree after 15 minutes of exercise. He takes off his gas mask and lights a cigarette. In contrast, a company of soldiers returning from a five mile hike in gas masks show no undue weariness.They remove their helmets and masks and appear fine. A platoon commander inspects his troops wearing gas maskes, prior to entering a gas chamber for training.
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