Cavalry officers ride horses at cavalry school, Tor Di Quinto in Rome, Italy. Horses gallop at great speed in open field. They jump over raised hurdles one at a time. One of the horses falls down.
German teacher teaches young boys and girls in a classroom. Children sing in praise of Adolf Hitler and give Nazi salute. Picture of Hitler with the Nazi flag. Italian children in uniforms at school salute images of Benito Mussolini. Young Japanese boy children are led in a Banzai cheer by a military instructor in Japan. German Hitler Youth play drums and trumpets in a band during a rally. German boys in the band march with drums as others stand by. In Japan, view of young Japanese boys in military uniforms marching beside drill instructors. In Italy during World War II, a group of Italian boys in military uniform march in a parade. A very young toddler boy stands in uniform and raises his left hand in a fascist salute but is corrected by a nearby adult who helps him to raise his right hand instead. Pairs of Italian boys and girls salute each other with raised fascist salutes. Italian youth in military uniforms march in front of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II in Rome (the Altare della Patria also known as the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II or Il Vittoriano).
Camera pans across U.S. soldiers engaged in live fire maneuvers to maintain readiness for ground combat. Scene shifts to weary American soldiers taking a break in World War II. One smokes a cigarette. Another smokes a cigar. Scene shifts again to U.S. soldiers on maneuvers, walking along a wooded trail. Others are seen marching in a desert environment.
Smoke rises from exploding shell. U.S. Army soldiers crawl across a field and into trenches, with live machine gun fire directed low over their heads. They employ their weapons, including flame throwers, and attack several buildings, cutting their way through barbed wire in the process. Smoke fills the area.
U.S. cadets test defense guns at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Cadets from West Point fire 155 mm guns and antiaircraft rifles at a beach. Cadets load shells into guns. Guns being fired guns.
U.S. Marines disembark from USS Bayfield (APA-33) during amphibious exercises in Okinawa, Japan. A crewman tends to the winch on the deck of USS Bayfield (APA-33). A I-JV telephone talker and a BM (Boatswain's Mate) on the deck of the ship. A crewman at the controls lowers down an LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the ship. Members of the crew handle lines. The BM gives a signal. The marines disembark from the ship onto the LCVP. The marines climb down cargo nets and onto the LCVP. The marines in LCVP head for the beach. USS Bayfield in the background. A coxswain in one of the landing craft.
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