Film opens showing Saint Michael's Archangel Church (310 Pulaski St, Bridgeport, CT 06608, United States) in the Polish section of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Snow is seen on some church stairs. But the main entrance is cleared, and some parishioners are entering there. Many others are emerging from other exits. (The Marchlinski brothers, Joseph and Anthony, have been identified walking towards the left at TC: 00:24 through 00:27.) Various views of parishioners leaving the church. All are in winter clothes. Closeups of some as they pass the camera. View of church cornerstone displaying the date: September 2, 1907 and St. Michael Church (in Polish). Closeup of men conversing on sidewalk near the church. Most wear fedora hats. But one, who seems somewhat elderly, wears a bowler hat. Ladies and gentlemen are seen wearing hats.
A Big Picture production about use and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Sergeant Stuart Queen at a desk as he speaks about the importance of marksmanship. A reconstruction depicts soldiers loading shells in a canon. A soldier with a rifle. An old U.S. flag with 13 stars flies from a pole. The Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts. Exteriors of the armory and a sign reads '1794'. A sign reads 'Museum'. The original Blanchard lathe at the museum. Billinghurst Requa Battery gun at the museum.
A film about uses and importance of weapons since old times in the United States. Past events depict smoke rising from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii after Japanese attack of December 7, 1941 during World War II. American soldiers fire machine guns during the war, from a jungle area in the Pacific. The soldiers run through muddy waters. Sky filled with parachutes, as seen from the ground, as U.S. Army paratroopers descend and land for an airborne invasion. American Army Infantrymen on a snow-covered landscape in Europe fire M-1 rifles at enemy German positions during World War 2.
United States Marines at Khe Sanh Marine camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Marine snipers in a sandbagged bunker sight through rifles. A Marine looks through binoculars. He drinks water from a canteen. He passes the canteen to other sniper. The sniper drinks water.
United States Marines at Khe Sanh Marine camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A U.S. Marine sniper behind sand bag mounds as he looks through binoculars. Another sniper comes out of a sandbagged bunker and the two snipers move along trenches to look out points. The Marines fire rifles. Concertina wire encircle the camp area. Snipers in a bunker as one of them sights through a gun and another looks through binoculars and points out.
United States Marines at Khe Sanh Marine camp in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Marine snipers behind sand bag mounds as one of them sights through a gun and another looks through binoculars. Concertina wire around the camp area. A sniper loads a gun as he smokes a cigarette.
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