Armored combat training at Fort Irwin and the National Training Center (NTC) in Mojave, California. U.S. trainees fire from guns mounted on tanks. The trainees fire on targets at a firing range. An officer gives a signal from a tower and speaks into a radio device. The trainees clean the guns.
The 1st Cavalry Division moving across the field in Southern California. The cavalry ford a stream. Trees in the background. Soldiers swimming and crossing a waterway. The mounted troops moving on the field. Soldiers coming downhill. The soldiers cross a field. (World War II period).
Mount Whitney and other peaks of the High Sierra as seen from Mojave Desert. View of Mojave Desert as seen from an elevated position. View of other peaks and ravines adjacent to Mount Whitney and rocks of Alabama Hills (oldest geological formation in the United States). Huge boulders in hill formation in Mojave Desert can be seen.
Military training of OSS cadets provided by the Office of Strategic Services in the United States, for agents who are assigned a military cover during World War 2. The OSS cadets get off a truck. Lieutenant Hamilton calls out the cadets' names. The cadets come and stand in one row. Lieutenant Hamilton gives them instructions. The cadets turn back and go away. They enter a building. They attend a lecture given by Lieutenant Hamilton.
A flight over Mt. Lassen in the Shasta Cascade, California. United States Army Air Service (USAAS) Airco DH-4Ms take off from Mather Field. DH-4M, strut and wing wires of DH-4M airplane. A DH-4M aircraft flies over snow-covered, wooded and mountainous terrain. Mt. Lassen seen. Wing wire bracing of the airplane in the foreground. A pilot in the cockpit. Mt. Lassen in the background. The pilot looks out from both the sides of the cockpit. Snow-covered Mt. Lassen. Volcano top of Mt. Lassen. The DH-4M aircraft flying over the crater of Mt. Lassen. The aircraft flies over the snow-covered precipice of Mt. Lassen. The airplane circles over the crater. The wingtip of the airplane is visible as it circles the peak. Lieutenant Carlyle Ridenour and Lt. Eugene Batten pose beside their DH-4M aircraft.
Invading German advancing into rural Polish regions in 1939. Trucks, motorcycles and infantry follow along the path of a shallow river bed and ford it over rocks near the remains of a wooden bridge. German troops riding in an Sd.Kfz. 11 special motorized vehicle (Sonderkraftfahrzeug) towing an artillery piece, make their way through shallow water. Another military vehicle moves across remains of a destroyed steel bridge in the background. Closeup of smiling German soldier and his comrades, all shouldering M42 machine guns, as they enter the city of Warsaw on October 1, 1939. German infantry march into the city through smoke and debris to parade for Adolf Hitler on October 5, 1939 (not seen). In the background the twin towers of All Saints Church dominate Grzybowski Square. Mounted officers lead marching infantry along a Warsaw street. Views of German soldiers receiving newspapers as they proceed deeper into Poland. They read them as they march informally. Closeups of German infantry making their way in the company of horse-drawn wagons carrying troops, supplies, and towing artillery pieces. Staff cars, trucks, and motorcycles move over dirt roads near piles of debris.
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