A documentary titled 'How Good Is A Gun' depicts the importance of good guns in World War II. A valley in North America. Damaged buildings. The rubble and dead bodies in the town. U.S. soldiers carrying guns walk on the rubbles. They are seated and talk about the good guns and weapons. The soldiers smoke and drink. The soldiers enter a building and are seated in a hall. Demonstration of various guns that can help the soldiers in different situations. A soldier firing the light carbines. A soldier fires a M-1 rifle. Fire by the machine guns that makes a hole in the 4 inches concrete wall. Troops in prone position and in the same line as they fire from a BAR (Browning Automatic Rifles) five times faster than a rifle. Two troops fire with a 30 caliber machine gun that cuts a tree. Air- cooled light machine gun that can fire within three miles and cuts the hill stone. Soldiers stand around a 60-mm mortar and fire. They put shell in the 80-mm mortar and fire. Smoke arises due to fire. A bazooka rocket powered and a killer tank. Troops pulls a 37-mm anti tank gun, they fire and look through binoculars. The troops around a 105-mm howitzer. The wooden logs arranged in a heap and are put three miles away. Howitzer fires and the heap being shelled. 155 rifle that lifts the roof of a German plant 15 miles away. Soldiers seated around the rifle. The rifle and the damaged German plant. A view of a war at the Italian Front. Troops pull away into positions along with artillery on the Italian front. They move forward along with the Howitzer,rifles and a Sherman tank.
Sign reads 'Welcome to Ellsworth AFB South Dakota. Formation of clouds. A B-47 aircraft parked along taxiway. A transport jet plane, with 4 tail-mounted engines, taxis in after landing, and comes to stop. Mrs Richard M Nixon disembarks from jet. Mrs Nixon talks with waiting officials and gets into sedan. Convoy of cars leaves airbase.
Armored vehicle evaluation of the 34th Armored Regiment, 4th Infantry Division in the United States. U.S. M48 Patton tanks move through elephant grass. Tanks move in single file into a jungle. Wave of tanks fire machine guns as they cross the field. A tank stationed.
Activities of U.S. 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II. An M5 High Speed Tractor (HST) tows a field gun along a snow covered road. The vehicle skids on the road, and troops throw sand on the road to increase traction. American troops walk on the icy road, including a Browning 1919A4 machine gun crew.
United States Army 4th Cavalry Regiment advancing through Grevenbroich,Germany during World War 2. Soldiers look at encouraging German messages to workers written on the Erftwerk factory walls. Soldiers aboard M8 Greyhound Armored Car fire 50 caliber machine gun and 37mm gun at buildings on the outskirts of the factory, where German forces may still linger. Vehicle moves forward and soldiers fire machine gun.
Assault made by elements of U.S. 10th Army consisting of 1st Marines, 6th Marines, 77th and 96th Army Divisions on Shuri line in Okinawa during World War 2. Two Marines firing Browning M1919, 30 caliber machine gun, from a high ridge. Several bodies of fallen Japanese soldiers. (Note: Marine firing the machine gun might be Robert Sorensen, C-1-5 USMC, who recalled being filmed on Okinawa, while firing his machine gun from a ridge at about this date. He served with Company E, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division.)
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