Forty thousand United States soldiers and National Guardsman of the third Army in military combined arms training maneuvers at Camp Shelby,and Desoto National Forest, Wiggins, Mississippi. U.S. Army Air Corps BT-9 Yale aircraft flying over tents and seen flying overhead. U.S. Army written on the wings of the planes. Troops moving in trucks and running across a field. Teams of horses pulling field artillery. Horses cooling off in canal water after the exercise. U.S. Army M2 Light tanks in maneuvers. Gun crews firing machine guns and field artillery pieces.
United States Army trains mules for war at Fort Lewis in Washington. Soldiers of the 99th Field Artillery train horses. They carry artillery equipment on a mountain terrain. Cavalier soldiers on their mules run down steep hill. Some soldiers fall off their mules.
United States armed sentry at guard post outside military building. Another armed soldier on the roof. Sentry checks soldier entering in a jeep. Numerous school children in an orderly line, entering their school building. Workers using hoes cultivate a pineapple field. Woman placing cloth on barbed wire fence. A formation of U.S. aircraft flying overhead. A building surrounded by barbed wire. Workers loading crates of pineapples onto a truck. Women weaving cloth strips into camouflage netting.Views of mountains and clouds. Hawaiian civilian workers stretching chicken wire over vertical poles. Workers cultivating pineapple plants with hoes. View from vehicle driving toward, and over a bridge guarded by armed sentry. Road signs indicate intersection of U.S. Route 1 and local Route 130. Sign on building reads: "Haleiwa." U.S. Navy sailors walk at Honolulu Harbor past the "Aloha Tower" covered in camouflage paint. (World War II period).
Men of 121st Infantry (Guerrilla) Regiment of the Philippine Army awarded medals at Luna in North Luzon Philippines, a month after World War 2. Filipino women seated in spectator stands fanning themselves as they watch a military award ceremony for their relatives and friends, who served with the Philippine 121st Infantry (Guerrilla) Regiment during World War II. A Filipino soldier, on crutches (missing his left leg) with Purple Heart medal pinned to his uniform blouse. Colonel Russell W. Volckmann, commander of United States Armed Forced in the Philippines, North Luzon (USAFIP-NL), is seen shaking hands with and presenting Purple Heart medals to other Filipino soldiers as they stand in a line, most of them on crutches. Filipino soldiers parade in honor of the medal recipients.
Soldiers of 26th Infantry at 1st Infantry Division Stand Down Center of the United States Army in Vietnam. Two soldiers walk and pick up their barrack bags and rifles. Soldiers walk towards stand down center quarters carrying their luggage. Soldiers unload luggage and combat gear into Conex container. Soldiers enter and exit from direct exchange facilities building. Two soldiers wearing only paints try to open a cardboard box. (Vietnam War period).
Soldiers at an award function at 1st Infantry Division Stand Down Center of the United States Army in Vietnam. First Infantry Division band plays as their master instructs. Soldier marches forward to receive a gallantry award. The awarding officer Colonel Frank D Conant Junior salutes. Troops in formation. Colonel Conant Junior attaches medal to the shirts of soldiers in ranks. (Vietnam War period).
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