Part of the U.S. Army training film describes the role of Light Weapon Infantrymen. Squad members ready to defend their area from enemy attack. Positions constructed and area is well camouflaged. Enemy tanks advancing. Supplementary positions taken and communication trenches dug. Squad leader informs platoon leader of advancing enemy infantry. United States soldiers open fire on enemy. To counter attack, the enemy blows a gap in the tactical wire. Squad reorganizes before another enemy attack
Officer Young explains the importance of word spacing and letter spacing while sending a message. Depiction of Dits and Dahs on screen. He explains by examples that the message sent was 'We got here' but due to difference in spacing receiver will read 'We go there'. Another example shown on screen 'We train today' will become 'Wet rain today'.
View of damaged French railroad yard and destroyed rail track on a bridge. Destroyed rail tracks, damaged trains and electric pole can be seen. French workers weld girders, repair rail engines and rail tracks at a devastated French railroad yard. Workers repair the rail track on a bridge. Instrumental soundtrack in background.
Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich Molotov and other dignitaries arrive at railway station in Moscow. General Charles de Gaulle gets off a train and is greeted by Molotov. They salute while a Russian band plays 'Marseilles'. Soldiers march behind General de Gaulle. (World War II period).
Tanks being transported on Military train. Soldier drives a military jeep onto a United States Army Air Force Aircraft. Military tanks, jeeps and ambulances are loaded onto container ship. United States trucks and tanks parked in order. Various images of battlefields of Philippines, Italy, Pacific Theater and battle-scarred beach in France. Wrecked military trucks, tanks and damaged guns. Salvage collecting crew members reclaim helmets, guns and other parts that can be repaired and reused. Damaged military truck towed.
Battle wrecked tanks and trucks being towed to an assembling point by United States salvage collecting crew members working in Europe. Soldiers sort out wrecked tanks and tents at an army yard focused on salvage and reclamation to avoid waste of materials. Laborers unload damaged clothes and shoes from a train. Laborers and women sort out the clothes which can be altered and reused.
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