U.S. Army soldiers train with new "Sniperscope" equipment during the Burma Campaign in World War II. The 475th Infantry regiment of the U.S. Mars Task Force are seen gathered for a demonstration of the new Sniper Scope. A U.S. Army soldier demonstrates the parts and use of the sniper scope. He shows a carbine equipped with the sniper scope for accurate firing in the dark. He explains the functioning of the scope and how its attached infrared spotlight operates in conjunction with a telescopic sight mounted on the rifle to enable night vision. He looks through the telescope sight. He demonstrates the use of a unit, attached by a cord, that contains batteries and an electrical focusing attachment. He turns a focusing dial on the unit. The American soldiers examine the carbine and look through the telescopic sight. Narrator explains that the night scope will be used primarily in preventing night infiltration of U.S. held positions.
The United States in preparation for World War II. Men stand in line for physical examination. Navy doctor checks lungs of each man with stethoscope. Young American men enlisting and new recruits being sworn in as Naval Reserves at the Naval Reserve Station in New York. Men working in war production factories to manufacture aircraft, ships, guns, and armament as part of the war production effort building war materiel. Large gun and artillery barrels are shown in production factories. Coastal guns fired. U.S. military tanks, jeeps and trucks advance. Aircraft in flight. Tanks advance in training drills over land obstacles, including ramps that cause a tank to become briefly airborn. Lines of tanks in practice drill maneuvers at night. Machine gun emplacements firing tracers at night and hitting practice targets.
A U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) training film on instructions to fly USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in the United States. An officer turns on a radio switch. Trainees wear head phones. Men check fuel pressure gauge. Governor control is operated to get desired revolutions per minute ( RPM). The RPM gauge shows readings. A system engineer communicates with men in aircraft. A gauge shows flap position. The flaps are turned down. A dial shows zero flap position. A compass chord, a hydrolic pressure gauge and a suction gauge show readings. A trainee turns a vacuum pump switch. He checks for oxygen cylinder pressure. An officer checks filter warning lights. A trainee turns on an output switch. A pilot communicates with a man in a control tower. A crew man gives hand signals to a man on the ground. The man removes wheel chokes. Switches and handles are operated as the aircraft taxis. The pilot locks the tail wheel. The aircraft taxis past other parked aircraft. Th pilot turns on the automatic control switch. The tail wheel is unlocked.
Japanese people near stations in Japan. In Osaka : people on a street. People at a station. Two men talk. People wait for streetcars. People load the streetcars in front of the station. People walk around at the station. In Tokyo : people wait for trains and walk along streets.
German and Romanian forces of the 17th Army, evacuate Kuban Bridgehead, at Taman, in Caucuses, and cross the Kerch Strait to Crimea, in World War Two. German and Romanian Officers study a map. S-mines aka 'Bouncing Betty' and Teller Mines are laid and barbed wire strung to impede the Russians. A convoy of trucks carries supplies. Some of local population evacuate along with the military. People carry their belongings in horse pulled carts. Many depart on railroad trains. Romanian troops set off charges that destroy sections of railroad behind them as they depart. Supplies are carried to ships at Port Kavkaz on the Russian shore of the Kerch Strait. Men roll drums in a dock area. Supplies are also transferred on the German-built aerial tramway, capable of transporting 1 thousand tons a day across the Kerch Strait.
Vichy French officials and youth in the Sahara Desert in Africa. French youth labor on Oran-Dakar railroad in the desert. Vehicles driven. Men lay a railroad line. A train on a railroad track. Vichy French officials including French Navy Admiral Francois Darlan arrive at a desert outpost. They review an Arab honor guard. They witness dances and Arab cavalry maneuvers.
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