U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War 2. U.S. aircraft in terrain. Soldiers on military trucks. A truck carries a 155mm howitzer. Another truck carries a 75 mm howitzer. Soldiers with a howitzer. Soldiers with their rifles march in the desert. The dust clouds at their feet. The military jeeps and trucks moves across the terrain. The camouflaged M-3 tanks in the maneuver area. The mobile laundries in the desert. The water pumps at the water edge. The soldiers stand near the water pipes. The sunset at the desert.
U.S. Army Air Corps 1st Provisional Wing at an annual training in California, United States. Pilots of the 95th Pursuit Squadron being briefed by Major Carl Spaatz and Captain Hugh M. Elmendorf prior to aerial maneuver. Pilots don leather flying suits and face masks for high altitude flying. A pilot seated in P-12B cockpit. P-12Bs taxi along the field and take off. Vapor trails in the sky at a high altitude due to engine exhausts. Flight crew reports the results to General William Gillmore after the maneuver. General talks to the pilots at the rear of P-12B aircraft.
Cabin of USAF AC-119K Stinger gunship of the 1st Special Operations Wing, Lockbourne Air Force Base, on live fire training mission. Gunner adjusts Vulcan M61A1 20mm cannon aboard AC-119K. He sights and fires the cannon. Spent shells tumble down chute (including several unspent with light blue noses). View of GAU-2/A 7.62 minigun firing. Spent rounds dropping into container under the gun. Brief view of tracers streaming toward the ground.
A U.S. Army advisor holding an M2 carbine with enlarged 30-round magazine, as he trains South Vietnamese soldiers, seated nearby. Closeup of several American advisers, all displaying parachutist badges on their caps. An advisor going over a map with a South Vietnamese soldier, in the field. View of ARVN (Army of Republic of Vietnam) soldiers slogging through jungles, carrying weapons and gear. ARVN troops firing weapons as they cross field of tall grass. A Viet cong (VC) in black outfit with white conical hat, seen running. Troops running under heavy small arms fire. ARVN escorting captured VC, under guard. They have their arms tied back. Vietnamese tribesmen who were impressed into VC service, are seen, momentarily, seated on the ground. A medical clinic staffed by U.S medical personnel is seen treating local citizens, who form a line waiting to be seen.
American soldiers are assembled on outdoor stands on a sand beach in World War 2. Next, soldiers are seen climbing down rope nets on a stand designed to simulate leaving a troop ship. Brief closeup of some of the soldiers descending the nets. Change of scene to a sandy area shows soldiers in a simulated landing craft rushing out of it in a practice drill. Soldiers in wheeled vehicles simulating landing craft armed with machine guns. Troops, in live fire training, crawl over water-filled ditches as a trainer fires a Browning M1917 30cal machine gun across the area. Shells bursting in the area. A soldier stretches himself in prone position across a barbed wire fence. Other soldiers climb over him to cross the fence. Several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for climbing a barbed entanglement.
Opening scene shows massive military parades in Red Square, Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Huge formations of Sailors and soldiers pass in review before Soviet leaders watching from a Kremlin reviewing stand. Among those seen are Party Chairman, and leader, Nikita Khrushchev, in light suit and hat and at his right side, Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov (in General's uniform). Next a formation of Tupolev Tu-16 (Badger) bombers flies over St. Basil's Cathedral and the square. View from high in Kremlin of towed artillery pieces. Closeup of Russian soldiers standing in the open back of a large artillery tractor pulling a large field piece. Other field pieces in tow. Scene shifts to the United States. Glimpse of an American Army recruiting poster and views of U.S. army recruits. U.S. soldiers on parade and in field training live fire exercises. Soldiers firing rifles in prone position, and then advancing across a field. Army gun crew with an 8-inch howitzer. M75 Armored Personnel Carriers driving across a field. Soldiers on maneuvers wearing personal camouflage and firing heavy weapons from a tree line.
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