A documentary shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a secret training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. A pistol house and trees in the background. A student enters a pistol house. An OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officer seated on a chair wearing a mask. He gives a combat situation to the student. The officer gets up from his chair and the student loads a pistol. They both enter a room and close a door. They both climb up the stairs very cautiously and officer keeps instructing. The student fire with a gun. They both move and take each step very slowly. A enemy and the student fires with the pistol. Both of them advance. The student kicks the door and fires. An enemy fires. Another enemy hidden in the bushes. The student loads a magazine and fires at the enemy.
A documentary shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a secret OSS (Office of Strategic Services) training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. A compass in hands. The students given a night situation to check their techniques and abilities. A wooded area. A student wearing a mask. A student hidden behind a tree. An enemy soldier stands holding a gun. The student attacks him from the back. The German officer walks in between the wooded area and talks. A student wearing a mask hides behind the tree and advances. The soldier attacks the enemy soldier. A student holds a tin can and throws it to distract the German soldiers and advances. The German soldier and officer in a room talk to each other. A U.S. soldier holds a knife, makes a sound. The soldiers run and fire guns. They throw hand grenades. Smoke rises due to explosion.
A U.S. arms manufacturing in World War 1. Hundreds of war production workers seen at shift change, waiting for their respective trolley cars passing on tracks between arms manufacturing plant's buildings. Women at work on metal working machines in an arms factory. Racks of Browning Automatic Rifles (Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918) are being moved about. Assemblers are seen hand fitting parts for the Browning M1917 water cooled machine gun. One man makes final assembly adjustments to one of the machine guns set up on tripod in the factory. He enjoys firing the Browning M1917 machine gun. (Note:The M1917 and M1918 BAR were manufactured by numerous American arms makers. Colt, Remington, Marlin, Royal typewriter, Winchester. Most of the M1917 machine guns were manufactured by New England Westinghouse.)
The U.S. Army introduces its newest air defense missile Hawk. Hawk missiles are launched from a launching carrier. Aircraft overhead being attacked by a missile. Hawk missiles launched from a carrier. The aircraft explodes after facing an attack and it comes down in flames.
A public television program by the U.S. Army entitled 'The Big Picture.' U.S. troops are seen hunkered down and looking through binoculars in a defensive position in Korea, during the Korean War. American soldiers riding atop a Sherman tank on a city street in Germany, during World War II. Ski troops moving across snowy hill in Alaska. U.S. Army amphibious assault training on a beach in Puerto Rico. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, narrator, speaks about America's defense against threat of atomic attack in these times of lukewarm peace. View of mountainous region in Alaska. A cluster of Cup'it Eskimo dwellings is seen on Nunivak Island, in the Bering Sea. Several of the local inhabitants are fishing through holes cut in the ice. Vapor trails are seen from Soviet aircraft flying at high altitude. A sign on a tarpaulin displaying logo of the Army Signal Corps, reads,"Alaska Communication System, Long Distance Commercial Telephone-Telegraph." A tracked vehicle carries a soldier to a facility posting a sign reading, "Alaska Communications System Receiver Station." Several tall antennas loom above the site. The soldier, dressed in arctic gear, steps from the tracked vehicle and walks past several snow shoes, standing upright in the snow, to enter a white wooden building. Inside, a man in civilian clothes works at a battery of telecomunications equipment. He transmits a message about the aircraft sighting, to the Alaska Communication System facility in Fairbanks Alaska (briefly shown) by means of a telegraph key. From there it is relayed to a Signal Corps facility, shown, in Washington, DC. A soldier is seen Inside that facility, in a room filled with computers and telecommunications equipment. A Sergeant handles paper tape messages being sent and received by teletype. Another soldier plugs connections into a communications switchboard. Next, the camera pans over the entrance to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the Pentagon. More views of soldiers attending banks of teletype machines. Animated map displays paths of orders being transmitted to U.S. Air Defense Centers in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, New York, and Atlanta. View from control room, of several U.S. Air Force F-94 Fighter Interceptor aircraft on an airfield ramp. A controller activates a Klaxon horn and pilots on alert, in the Fighter Interceptor Squadron ready room, jump up and scramble to their aircraft. A pair of F-94s taking off. One is number 51-5385. Next, a U.S. Navy F-9 fighter plane is seen taking off from an airfield. It displays tail code AE. It is followed by another F-9 aircraft.
The barrel of a 120mm M1 anti-aircraft gun is seen with a white ring and the name "Buddy Bill" painted on it. Another shown is named "Bashful-Baby." A soldier is in the process of painting a name on his gun barrel. View of the M51 Skysweeper anti-aircraft gun. Closeup of the radar dish atop the gun. View of the numerous controls of the gun. A Skysweeper gun set up in a desert setting, test site. An officer approaches the gun crew and gives an order. A gun crew member lowers the gun barrel, while two others retrieve shells for it. Hand of operator seen adjusting settings on gun controls. An aircraft (drone) is seen in flight overhead. The gun begins to automatically track it. A gunner presses a firing switch and the gun begins to fire shells. Black flak clouds form as shells explode in the air. several rounds are fired, the drone is struck and fall, burning, from the sky. Change of scene shows a Nike surface to air missile in a launch position. A soldier stands near a sign at a test site, reading "Launch Area." Soldiers slide a Nike missile across a set of rails, hook it up to a launch stand, turn on various control switches, and quickly leave the area. Aerial view of several Nike missiles laid horizontal on similar rails. Closeup on the ground of a Nike missile being raised to an uptight firing position. A rotating radar antenna. An Army technician at a battery of controls in a Nike operation center. Soldiers at a plotting table in th operation center. One wears a headset and announces countdown to firing. A visiting Allied military officer observes the activities. A clock on the wall records the countdown. A field grade Army officer with a headset stands near the soldier during the countdown. A hand actuates the firing switch and the Nike missile is seen launching. Men track it with elaborate camera equipment. The Army controller then announces time to intercept, as a dial in the control room shows the countdown progressing. . View of a B-17 target drone aircraft in flight at high altitude. As intercept is announced, the Nike strikes the B-17 which explodes and falls. Views of Nike test launch. View of the B-17 drone leaving contrails as it flies at high altitude, and then exploding and burning after being struck by the Nike missile. Pieces of the aircraft fall off as it burns, including two of its engines. Army Master Sergeant Stuart Queen, host of the "Big Picture" television program, wraps up the presentation.
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