Cowboys approaching ride horses into a stable. Cattle graze. Oil wells and military airfield from overhead. Distant view of Dallas Texas city skyline. Night view of streets and signs in Amarillo Texas. Daytime view of a tall skyscraper building and wide street in Houston Texas with cars and traffic View of the Hotel Nimitz in Fredericksburg Texas. Downtown Fort Worth Texas city street with shops, offices, and cars. Downtown area in Pampa Texas. Street corner view in Kerrville Texas. Two different views of The Alamo and surroundings in San Antonio, Texas. A water tower and oil rigs in Kilgore Texas. Downtown area of El Paso, Texas from elevated view. Street view in downtown Beaumont, Texas. Downtown view in Wichita Falls, Texas. Downtown San Angelo Texas views. Distant view of the city of Austin Texas from an elevated position, and then in downtown Austin featuring the State House Capitol building. Cattle, sheep, and sorghum farming views. Rice fields and Turkey ranches. Many oil rigs and oil wells. A busy shipyard in Texas making ships for World War II war effort. A sprawling aircraft factory. Oil rigs pumping oil. Farmer on tractor plows wheat field. View of rice harvesting (Massey Harris Self Propelled Harvest Brigade). Men stack magnesium bars. Magnesium factory next to ocean in Texas. Hand cotton picking and view of a mechanical cotton picker. Tractor pulling sorghum harvester. Sulfur mining and Helium plant in Amarillo. Black clouds in sky from burning natural gas in making synthetic rubber for war effort. Cliff of sulfur dynamited and loaded by railroad train crane. Cowboys herd cattle and view of Fort Worth Stockyards and Exchange. Angora goat farm and turkey farming. War time production workers busy in various manufacturing and industrial jobs, showing both men and women workers contributing to the effort. View of sign pointing to the Alabama and Coushatta Native American Indian reservation. Flag with many service stars for men in the war from the reservation, on display at the Indian Agency Office. Native American Indian children with an elder and workers busy at an Indian logging camp. Close-up views of faces of some Native American Indian boys as they listen to the man speak. Campus of University of Texas, with mostly female students walking on the campus. View of State Capitol building in Austin. Well dressed women exit Dallas department store. Narrator points out an attractive woman waiting for someone. View of a large church building with people departing after the end of the church service.
Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Dramatization: A Corvair stops in the middle of a road. Two men get out. They take out hand guns and semi-automatic guns and wait in ambush for a Cadillac limousine. A woman sits on a motorbike she signals kidnappers using her walkie talkie handheld radio device. The men with guns come in front of the Cadillac limousine and stop the other car. Close up view of hands holding and firing a semi-automatic assault rifle. They shoot the driver and kidnap the passenger, putting a blindfold over his head as they put him into a van. Newspaper headlines about kidnappings, including the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. California State Police logo. View of cars weaving through traffic cones in parking lot, learning evasive maneuvers. POV through front seat of police patrol car being driven at high speed. Shot of chauffeur polishing a Mercedes Benz. View of damaged cars in a junkyard, including a Trans Am and a Buick Riviera. Even though the Riviera has considerable front end damage, it is started easily by technicians. The narrator explains that cars can be used as weapons to get out of an ambush.
Vehicle Ambush Counter-attack techniques. Cars are driven through road barricades as narrator explains use of a vehicle as a weapon to push aside cars that are being used to ambush. Cars are hit in the rear or front quarters by the escape vehicles to demonstrate disruption of an ambush. POV driver side of car as gunmen drive alongside and shoot the driver. Wide shots of same ambush on driver as it takes place on road curve. Defensive maneuvers by driver include hitting the brakes hard to throw off the aim of gunmen. View of motorcycle on same curve. View of Molotov cocktail being thrown at a car. Narrator explains that having the window up helps to ward off a Molotov cocktail attack as views of burning car are seen. A chauffeur waits on the street in front of a Cadillac limousine. A man emerges from an office building and gets into the limousine. POV of limousine driver as he drives to evade attackers, and reaches under dashboard to turn on a siren. Woman in 1970s fashions sits on a motorcycle radioing ahead to attackers on her walkie talkie.
An Italian war orphan celebrates the anniversary of her adoption at destroyer escort USS George E. Davis in Florida. Nine year old Maria LaVecchia is the foster daughter of 200 men crew. She cuts a cake. The crew eats the cake. She is surrounded by the crew men. She is adopted under the 'Foster Parent Plan'. The foster fathers kiss her on the adoption anniversary.
Southern California wins the 55th Annual Collegiate Games in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 100-yard dash event in progress. Frank Wykoff, the winner of the event. The hurdles event of the Games. Victor Wilson emerges the winner. Participants take their jump at the long-jump event. The pole vaulting event in progress. Bill Graber climbs over the bar at 14 feet ½ inch to win pole vault. Southern California is fourth time victorious in the Annual Collegiate Games.
US Army Air Force training film on the A-N Gun Camera - Scoring of Gun Sight Aiming Point Film. Army Air Forces AT-6 aircraft towing a target sleeve as other AT-6s shoot at it. AT-6 training aircraft in flight with gun camera installed in the aircraft. Pilot seen in cockpit. The aircraft, parked on ramp. Pilot climbs out of cockpit, wearing seatpack parachute. An armorer removes the film magazine and then completes a scoring data form. The film is taken to a laboratory to be developed and scored. A Lieutenant explains gun camera scoring to a group of Air Force personnel, in an auditorium. He winds the film on a 100 foot reel, removing any damaged or unused film and splicing a leader on to it. He writes pilot and mission information on the film leader. Lecturer then illustrates scoring process, using a blackboard, and demonstrating with a scoring device adapted from a 16mm motion picture projector. Finally he displays charts dealing with trajectories of 30 caliber ammunition and relationships of range, span of target, and image size. He performs arithmetic calculations on the blackboard. Animated diagrams illustrate points being discussed. A Lieutenant in the audience asks about ground targets, and the instructor discusses that and also responds to several other questions from the audience. (World War 2 period.)
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