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Allied soldiers and French civilians during the Tunisian Campaign in Tunisia.

The Tunisian Campaign in North Africa. A man rides a motorcycle. Allied soldiers walk on either side of the road. A terrain and road marker reads 'Bizerte 10'. French civilians on road. A man holds flag of France. Civilians wave. (World War II period).

Date: 1943, May 9
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021182
TBF Avengers, F6F Hellcats, A-25, SB2C and SBF Helldivers land on the deck of 'The Fighting Lady' in the Pacific Ocean.

U.S. Navy Documentary highlights functions, duties and crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A sign reads 'US Naval Communications'. Women work in a room on typewriters. TBF Avengers, F6F Hellcats, A-25, SB2C and SBF Helldivers fly out towards the carrier. Aircraft in flight with insignia of the United States. A ship 'The Fighting Lady' underway. Crewmen stand on the deck. A plane lands on the deck. Planes in flight in background. Wire barriers on the deck in case the plane fails to land on the resting gear. A landing signal officer on the deck. The plane lands on the ship's deck. People stand on the deck. The planes are to be rearranged for a take off. The skipper of the ship stands on the deck. The crew stand on the deck. The skipper reproofs the flight deck. He asks the deck crew to arrange the planes properly. A diagram of the carrier and an account of the hangar deck. A structure on the mid ship.

Date: 1943
Duration: 6 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021553
Sailors perform tasks and drills like loading of guns, firing the guns and work on 5 inch gun fire control on USS Yorktown

U.S. Navy Documentary highlights functions, duties and crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. A sailor looks through binoculars and telescope. A sailor ties a rope. Sailors with various crew jobs stand in a group and talk. They work on instrument and equipment on the ship. The sailors load guns and fire during practice drills. Signal flags being hoisted. Sailors with headphones work on fire control of 5 inch guns. Smoke due to firing. A sailor paints the letter 'E' for "efficiency."

Date: 1943
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021554
A Navy butcher, a cook, a pharmaceutical unit and a hospital on USS Yorktown; and sailors enjoying food in galley

Functions, duties and crew activities aboard 'The Fighting Lady', pseudonym for the USS Yorktown, CV-10, in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Housekeeping activities aboard the ship. U.S. Navy sailors on the deck do exercises and lay under the sun. A man plays with a dog (the ship's mascot, named Scrappy). The ship leaves the Panama Canal. Reserve, specialists and pilots eat food. Non commission personnel stand in a mess line and serve themselves food. They sit at a table and eat food. One of the sailors smokes a cigarette. The non commission personnel peel vegetables like potatoes and cabbage. A navy butcher cuts slabs of red meat and a cook at work. A pharmaceutical unit and a hospital on the ship. A tailor, a cobbler and a dry cleaner work on the ship.

Date: 1943
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021555
Montage of scenes involving military equipment and operations emphasizing signal corps communications

'The Signal Corps Fights' depicts the role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Montage of military equipment and combat scenes (some staged). Opens with glimpses of: massed formation of U.S. Army soldiers; similar formation of bombs in a munitions factory; row of P-47 fighter planes parked on an airfield; a huge radar antenna; battery of U.S. 120 mm M1 anti-aircraft guns; troops marching toward the camera; Martin B-26 Marauder aircraft dropping bombs, that explode on the ground; formation of German He 111 bombers in flight; U.S. battery of 120mm anti-aircraft guns firing; gun camera views of U.S. fighter strafing German aircraft on the ground, and attacking a German Messerschmitt bf 109 head-on (The tail is blown off and the pilot bails out at the last instant); fire engulfing some soldiers. Next, a soldier is seen at a large signal corps field telephone switchboard, and other communications switchboards are shown with operators. Momentary glimpse of troops, ostensibly engaged in combat. A soldier communicating from under a camouflage netting, and one holding a rifle and talking in a phone as he strings wire from a spool in his backback. A german soldier ostensibly cutting a U.S. communications cable that he discovers in the field. A U.S. soldier crawling along the line to find and repair the damage, followed by a staged "attack" by the German soldier. They engage in a knife fight. Soviet infantry advancing on the Eastern Front. Soviet T-34 tanks advancing. Soviet soldiers engaged in combat. An unusual U.S. tank with two guns, and side protection over track wheels. M3 Stuart light tanks going down hill with infantry in france during World war 2. Hand of signal corps soldier using a key to send morse code message. Soldier in bunker using field telephone. Signal corps soldiers communicating with field switchboards during combat. Momentary glimpse of German Messerschmitt bf 109 and another aircraft speeding past. Bomb exploding. Huge clouds of black smoke billowing, behind camouflaged German military vehicles parked. Twisted frames of German wrecked vehicles and rail cars. Huge number of German soldiers marshaling to retreat from advancing Allies. German officers conferring.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021719
U.S. Army Signal Corps officers train at Fort Monmouth and production of signal communication items in the United States.

The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. U.S. Army Signal Corps officers train at the Signal Corps Officer Candidate School (OCS) Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Officers train at telegraph machines under the supervision of an instructor. Officers seated at desks in a classroom. Instructors take classes with the help of charts, diagrams and black boards. Officers seated atop electric poles for training. Two officers train in hand-to-hand combat at the OCS. Officers learn to use Radio Relay. Students listen to an instructor as he demonstrates the process. A U.S. soldier lays field wire across a hilly terrain to establish wire communications in the European Theater during World War II. Soldiers on the hill. Soldiers set up a sending station at the point where the wire can't go forward. A receiver is set up at the point from where the wire can go forward again. A soldier receives a photograph of a map through facsimile. Items of signal communication including radio relays, receivers, walkie-talkies, radio boxes and fuses to be produced and distributed by the USA Signal Corps to all other ground forces, navy and the Allies. New, modern, improved efficient signal communication equipment. A soldier displays two old type fuses and their counterparts.

Date: 1943
Duration: 2 min 2 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021720