U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. Food cartons piled on the loading platform. The soldiers load them onto the military trucks. A soldier cleans the rail car. A board depicts headquarters regulation station D.T.C. at Colton regulating station. A few buildings in the background. Soldiers stand near a board which shows the parking position of tanks and trucks. A soldier marks the parking position with paint. A military tanker. Fontana am depot : A freight car in a desert terrain. Pomona Ordnance depot : Military tanks along with jeeps and trucks at the depot.
U.S. Army IX Corps maneuvers at the desert training center in United States during World War II. Spadra General Hospital. The army hospital buildings in the desert. Patients walk on a road. Hospital nurses at the mess. African American soldiers in the mobile laundry trucks. The soldiers operate the laundry. RHD Niland. The aerial view of the desert area. A railhead in the desert. Soldiers with the cartons at the railhead. A few military trucks in the background.
Destruction of ammunition by the army in United States. Piles of ammunition. Wooden cartoons of ammunition. A note on a cartoon reads "Issues prohibited". Soldiers unloading the cartoons of ammunition from a truck. An unfilled ammunition condition report. Authorized methods of ammunition destruction include dumping at sea, detonation or burning. Burning: ammunitions lying on a table. Ammunition to be burned includes bulk TNT (Tri Nitro Toluene), composition C-4, dynamite, black powder, solid propellants, primers, detonators, boosters, fuzes, small arms ammunition, pyrotechnics and hand grenades, photo flash bombs, hand grenades high explosive, rocket head and 240 mm projectile. Two soldiers reading a map. A soldier draws a circle using a compass. Burning site is one that is safely away from a public highway, habitation, railroad, and observation point. Two soldier working on a map on a table. One of them rolls down the map.
Ammunition destruction in the United States. Black powder cans arranged to form a pyramid. Soldiers come one by one and pick up a can. Two soldiers take a can in an open ground. One soldier opens the can. He spreads it on the ground to form a line. At the end of the line so formed the soldiers put some dry grass. Three soldiers standing near a barrack. A soldier then burns cotton and then all the soldiers move inside the barrack. All the black powder burns away.
U.S. Army soldiers prepare to destroy ammunitions in the United States. A soldier puts some ammunition on the ground. One soldier stands while another spreads black powder on the ground. Three soldiers standing near a barrack move inside. The ammunition burns away. A soldier attaches a wire to the spread black powder. Soldiers then move away and the black powder burns with huge flames.
U.S. Army soldiers prepare to burn ammunition in the United States. Two soldiers stand near a hole in the ground. Some soldiers near a pile of wooden cartons. The hole in the ground is filled with lots of dry grass and broken wooden cartons. A soldier pouring kerosene in the hole. The soldiers covering the hole with sheets. Three soldiers near a pile of wooden cartons. One soldier opens a carton of cartridges. The covered hole burns with fumes. A group of soldiers digging the hole. Three soldiers filling a carton with cartridges. They place the carton inside the hole which is filled with broken pieces of wooden cartons. The soldiers cover the hole with sheets.
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