Mineral resources in Texas. Film titled 'Glimpses of Texas'. Map of Texas. Location of Texas and its size in United States. Natural gas field at panhandle. Map shows areas containing gas and oil reserves. Oil towers and oil drilling machines. A crude oil refinery. Oil refinery in Texas manufacturing petroleum products. Cliff side gas and helium field in Texas. Exterior of main office building of helium plant in Amarillo Texas, with sign on building, "United States Bureau of Mines Helium Plant." View of office and men working near large gas storage containers. Views of sulfur producing wells. Sulfur piles and railroad train at a sulfur plant.
A U.S. and Royal Air force training film on Fighter Tactics against B-29 aircraft, similar to those of allied U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress in United Kingdom. A UK Royal Air Force (RAF) officer addresses a group. Models of B-29, C-47 Skytrain and C-82 Packet aircraft on desk. B-29 stationary and crew lined up in front of a plane for inspection. A pilot inspects the crew in front of a plane. Crew gets into the bomb bay of B-29. The guns being revolved, top turrets, side turrets, tail guns all being tested on the ground. A pilot hold hands out of window and signals to ground crewmen. The engines starting. The engines starts. B-29 taxis out from taxiing area. A tail section of B-29 and 15th Air Force insignia on tail. Large letter 'W' on tail. B-29 takes off. Aerial formation of B-29. An English officer addresses the group then goes over to wall and points out B-29 group tactical formations on bombing runs. The chart and pattern for B-29 formation. RAF pilots sit and listen to a briefing officer. (World War II period).
Japanese troops in Vladivostok, during Russian Civil War and World War 1. Opening scene shows Japanese soldiers in a bayonet sparring exercise using wooden rifles and Samurai style protective gear. They engage each other in pairs. Next scene shows Japanese soldiers in front of railroad cars serving as their housing. Some of them are cooking food. View along the rail platform where many Japanese soldiers are walking about. A Japanese soldier is seen inside on of the boxcars, smoking a cigar. Several others are seen inside their boxcar home, where they have a stove to heat it. A soldier stands guard atop war material stacked in low open rail cars. Views of vast rail yards filled with train loads of supplies of all kinds. Smoke issuing from steam locomotives in the distance. Another view of boxcars used as "barracks" for troops. Camera pans over the rail yards.
Czechoslovak Legion Generals Stefanik, Gaida and Syrovy, converse on a train platform of the Trans Siberian Railroad. They march forward and salute. The Generals inspect Czechoslovak Legion troops. The troops stand in formation and hold rifles. The troops salute. A building in the background. Time frame is Russian Civil War and also during World War 1.
Czech Legions in Siberia, Russia during Russian Civil War (and World War I). Czechoslovakian General Stefanik, General Gadia and Jan Syrovy step from railroad car of the Trans Siberian Railway and are greeted by officers and assembled Legion troops.The flag of the 2nd Czechoslovak Fighting Regiment is displayed by the troops. The Czech Legion Generals drive in a motorcade from the railroad train station, past cavalry on horseback, who then follow them, along with horse-drawn artillery pieces.
Czechoslovak Legion troops quartered in railroad cars on railroad sidings at a depot on the Trans Siberian Railway, during Russian Civil War (and World War 1). The Czechoslovakian troops exit from their rail cars and begin assembling. They pose with a large Czech flag. Former White Russian General Mikhail Dieterichs (Diterikhs), now Commander of the Czech Legion in Siberia, poses with some of his staff. An officer orders troops into formation and marches them away from the train depot, shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets. Cavalry and horse drawn artillery wagons begin to move out as well.
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