Film based on advantages and procedures of using U.S. Army training films. U.S. soldiers watch a training film in a film projection room. U.S. gun crew fire heavy artillery gun after being trained. Shows how German army made use of military training film to carry out successful invasion during World War II. German officer and troops plan an invasion and review a model of landscape. German paratroopers are seen leaping from German Junkers Ju-52 aircraft, dropped by Nazi planes over Greek island of Crete during World War II. Includes scenes from inside aircraft of German paratrooper soldiers jumping out aircraft door, and scenes of paratroopers in the sky descending. U.S. soldiers watch an army training film. A U.S. soldier teaches his buddy how to put on a gas mask and application of knowledge gained by training film. U.S. troops aboard landing craft heading for beach. U.S. soldier ducks in a foxhole while enemy tanks advance. U.S. troops undergo training in rifle fire and hand to hand combat on a training field.
U.S. 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortresses bomb targets in Europe during World War II. A B-17 drops bombs over a city. Aerial views of small islands along a coastal city. Smoke billows up from explosions. Formation of B-17s.
United States ships and a landing craft convoy underway in the Pacific Ocean during the Battle of Tarawa of World War II. The shoreline of an island. A transport in the foreground. Marines in camouflaged helmets underway at sea in the foreground.
A U.S. Army Air Forces C-47 airplane carrying movies among its cargo bound from New Caledonia to troops stationed at Bougainville, Solomon Islands, during World War 2. Views inside the airplane cabin, where troops sit alongside the cargo. Glimpse from cockpit of aircraft on final approach to land on the airfield. Troops unloading canisters of movie films from the C-47. (Handing the movie reels out of the C-47 is Russ Laming of the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron, a.k.a the Thirsty 13th.) Army truck carrying mail bags and movie films driving away from the airfield. U.S. soldiers walk to their makeshift movie tent from foxholes and fortified positions. Sign on the tent reads: "Bougainville Roxy, Tonights feature." Movie projector seen inside the tent, as soldiers enter. Views of movie theaters made out of logs and other available materials at various locations in the Pacific theater of operations. They range from simple and rugged to more elaborate, at rear locations, away from the front lines. U.S. servicemen racing to get the best seats in a theater, as the doors open for a movie. Servicemen walking into an open air theater. They are called to attention as the unit commander arrives and takes his seat. View of wounded soldiers recuperating in a hospital,where a movie camera is being set up in the ward. They are tended by a French nurse wearing a "flying nun" hat (possibly North Africa). Servicemen and women being seated in an outdoor theater, and other places, waiting to watch movies. Allied troops join Americans to watch U.S. movies. A theater sign announcing the week's movie program at a Royal New Zealand Air Force post in the jungles. Courier carrying film canister from a jeep into a jungle theater. Soldier mounting the film on projector. U.S. troops watching a movie outdoors, during rain storm.
1st U.S. Marine Division undergoes training at Wagga Wagga Island in Australia during World War 2. Australian Wirraway trainer airplanes fly low over the training ground assault course. Marines advance on an open field. They approach bayonet training dummies, thrust and fire at the dummies. Explosion occurs, raising dust, as they exit the bayonet area. They jump over low barbed wire obstacles. A pair of Wirraway aircraft fly over at treetop level.More explosions occur in the field as Marines arrive at barbed wire obstacles that they must crawl under.They encounter more dummies to bayonet; climb over wooden walls; and rope ladders. A huge explosive charge is set off raising lots of earth near the trainees. Medical team examines someone injured.
U.S. 1st Marine Division undergoes training at Wagga Wagga Island in Australia during World War 2. Marines train on assault course, under fire. They advance across an open field firing with rifles and jump into a trench. Marines crawl from the trench. Explosions occur as they move ahead on the course. Wirraway trainer airplane flies low overhead. U.S. Marines cross hurdles; climb rope nets and negotiate a rope bridge over marshes. An explosion throws water high into the air next to a Marine crossing the rope bridge..
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