During World War 2: Armed U.S. Army guard standing watch just outside the gates of Arlington National Cemetery, on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, at Memorial Bridge. Army vehicles nearby. Guards standing along with soldiers in the area. Tents of Arlington Cantonment in the background. Views toward Washington DC: Memorial bridge with the Lincoln Memorial in the background. Armed U.S. Army soldier guard standing and pacing with Memorial Bridge behind him. Alternate view of armed guard marching on patrol during World War 2, with Washington Monument in the distance across the Potomac River.
U.S. Army Air Corps Third Aviation Instruction Center in Issoudun, France during World War I. Salvage of aircraft on the ground. Men repair an aircraft. Prisoners operate an incinerator.
The U.S. Naval Training Center in Great Lakes, Illinois. A U.S. Navy sailor recruit gets a haircut. A barber using a hand clipper shaves a boy's head. Dental check up of a recruit.
U.S. Navy cooks at work in the Great Lakes Naval Training Center (Naval Station Great Lakes) during World War I. Interior of a kitchen. The cooks put meat and then some eggs in a grinder. A man turns the handle of the slicer. A cook mixes and shapes a meat loaf. He places it in a pan. The cook takes meat loaf out of an oven. He slices it. He takes a pan of baked potatoes from the oven and places them on a platter. He dishes soup from a vat into a kettle. Creamed peas in a vat. Steaks are cooked on a stove top. A man draws coffee from a huge urn into pots.
U.S. Navy sailors in training during World War I take time to play cards for fun. Sailors seated around a table at the Naval Station Great Lakes. They play cards. Several other sailors watch them playing.
At start, this film shows a U.S. Military tent camp somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II. Heavy rains create breeding grounds for Anopheles mosquitos as seen when a Navy technician holds up a sample of water containing mosquito larvae. A jeep rides through mud, creating road ruts that become mosquito breeding grounds, which are seen swarming around them. Two scenes of bulldozers is being used to destroy soft surface, rutted roads. One employs a disc harrow. Closeup of the discs. Two men step under barbed wire and look at sign reading: "Use Authorized roads only." Scene shifts to American infantry moving cautiously through the jungles and engaging Japanese with hand grenades and small arms. A field clinic where a malaria patient is being treated. A soldier uses a sprayer inside his tent quarters to kill mosquitos. Troops marching back to a field headquarters, benefitting from taking precautions against malaria.
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