U.S. Army IX Corps combat operations at desert training centers in California. Landing strip and desert training center area. Four aircraft being parked on the strip. Camouflaged HQ (headquarters) behind the bushes and trees. Aircraft camouflaged with trees and bushes. Soldiers at work on the plane engine under camouflaged netting. Water tank truck leaves a water point. Soldiers refill portable gasoline cans. Crew refuels and starts a U.S. Army Medium Tank M-3 (M3 Lee) tank. A jeep pulls into the camouflaged HQ area. Two African American soldiers at work on a telephone pole. (World War II period).
U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at desert training centers in California. Half-track mounted with 50 cal Machine Gun moves. A tank moves on. A soldier on truck and another soldier on ground. Many camouflaged tanks move ahead. Soldiers on the barbwire boarder. A soldier in a trench. Another soldier with a gun inside a foxhole. A soldier digging trench. Two soldier in trench aims Bazooka. Soldiers on the barbwire boarder. Anti tank mine field..Three soldiers unloading mines from a truck. 155 mm Howitzer camouflaged. Four soldiers take stance with 75 mm AA (anti aircraft) gun in preparation for firing. A soldier sees through binoculars. Some more soldiers near a camouflaged trench. A soldier making calculation on the map using drafting instruments. Another soldier sights through transit.. (World War II period).
U.S. Army IX Corps soldiers during a simulated attack on 03 July 1943. Soldiers lie in rutted desert terrain behind smoke screen and barbed wired barricades. 0630: Men and equipment moving towards action. Half track tanks, trucks and troops proceeding through valley. Soldier sitting on ground and shaving. (World War II period).
Film begins with camera panning over the desert at the U.S. Army IX Corps camp in California during World War 2. Moving vehicles spew smoke, forming a thin smoke screen across the background. Military vehicles of various kinds are maneuvering over the site. Two M3 Lee tanks raise dust as they move toward the camera. Closeup of one with gunners in the main and the sponson turrets of the tank. Various military vehicles, including half M3 half track armored personnel carriers, jeeps and trucks move along a dirt road. An M3 lee tank moves down from an upper road to a lower one, creating dust clouds as it does. It passes between some foot soldiers and an M3 armored personnel carrier (M3). Lots of dust is raised by the tank.
Tanks and troops moves across the desert at U.S. Army IX Corps camp in California during World War II. A smoke generator mounted on a truck throws a heavy smoke screen. Billows of smoke rise up.
World War 2 training film teaching U.S. soldiers about decontamination of combat vehicles, at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. Soldiers during a decontamination procedure with real mustard gas. The soldiers in armored vehicles. A group of soldiers prepares for the decontamination. An aircraft flying at low height. A stationary U.S. Army Pershing tank. Two soldiers in a jeep. Soldiers wearing gas masks decontaminate a vehicle. Flashback scenes to August 1918 in World War I in France, with many mustard gas attack victims being cared for at a field hospital (which narrator says is Field Hospital number 326). Medic washing eyes and face of a World War 1 gas attack victim. Next view is a soldier in 1942 with mustard gas burns on his hand, being treated by a medic. Next scene returns to World War 1 in 1918, showing mustard gas burns on arms, hands, legs, and feet of U.S. Army soldiers.
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