Making of perfect women in Italy. Girls perform group drills in athletics at an academy in Orveito, Italy to become perfect women. Girls march and perform drills.
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows camouflaged aerodromes which are covered with chicken wire and feathers in jungles of the Solomon Islands. A man opens a window of an Italian hot dog stand which was actually a German pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as a farmhouse. A U.S. Army soldier handles mats of a matted house. A soldier looks at windows painted on a pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as an entertainment outlet. A dummy building which hides a bridge. A German airfield disguised as a decoy village in Belgium. Buildings in the village. A jeep drives on a road in the village. Men move a sliding wall of a phony building. Helmets and shirts on branches to appear as dummy soldiers. A man near a dummy soldier. Vehicles roll past in France. An artillery piece hidden in thick vegetation. U.S. soldiers watching the film in a theater in the United States.
Opening scene shows cadets at the Imperial Japanese Military Academy in Tokyo, practicing Kendo martial art using bamboo swords (shinai) and wearing protective armor (bōgu). Next the cadets run an obstacle course. We see them leaping over a wall and then running over wooden poles across a deep open pit. They then leap another wall and climb out of a deep ditch and over a stone wall to the top. Next, students are seen demonstrating kendo in a courtyard at the a Military School in Kobe, Japan. Many spectators watch the demonstration.
New Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) recruits from urban areas are examined by doctors at Army processing center during the Great Depression. Men stand on city sidewalk, with their luggage, waiting for bus to take them to the CCC processing center. One man stands in front of a large tent. Several men in civilian clothes, with luggage, line up at a discharge office, after completing their term of service. Army supervisor reads from a list as recruits respond by raising their hands. Recruits run from their tents, carrying their mess gear, as mess call is sounded. Recruits walk through a mess line and receive hot food. They sit and eat at large tables in a mess hall. Recruits are issued blankets, clothing, and personal items from Army quartermasters. Scenes of recruits making beds. A cot with a recruits belongings laid out upon it. Several recruits pose in their civilian clothes, and then in their uniforms. CCC men march, carrying shovels, and commence work on a construction project. Men, with wheelbarrows, work on the project.
Liberated French prisoners as they walk out of railroad station.Some wear sprigs of flowers in their lapels. A civilian official controls the size of groups leaving the station. White-coated medical personnel and nurses are present. French tricolor seen on truck and on uniforms of some soldiers. Nuns mill about. Liberated Frenchmen get on trucks and the trucks depart. Several Liberated Frenchmen greeted by French women. Men get on vehicles. Several French military officers are seen, as well as one American Military policeman. (World War II period).
Tyndall Field Tactical School of the Air University. Aircraft in formation. Pilots discuss a map at an airfield. Interiors of school show officers studying and participating in simulated missions. Students gathered around search radar on tower.
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