United States Army training film about the attitude of athletes and soldiers of the United States in World War II. The film is titled 'Fighting Men', 'Kill or Be Killed'. Narrator contrasts fair fight tactics in sports in the United States versus the kill or be killed attitude necessary to win in war. Opens with series of scenes of players playing various sports, seemingly at college and professional level for most: boxing, baseball, basketball and ice hockey. Two young boy boxers compete in a boxing ring with a referee looking on who is wearing a Navy sweatshirt. Runners at a race track in a track and field race. A tennis player preparing to serve a ball. A football game. Soldiers run in a field and fire while in prone position. A soldier fires machine guns while the other holds the bullet belt. Bomb explosion on a battlefield. Artillery and soldiers at a front during a war.
Notre Dame and Carnegie Tech play college football at South Bend, Indiana, United States. The Notre Dame team triumphs over Carnegie Tech with a score of 21-7. Huge crowd gathered at the stadium to watch the game.
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida, United States. A man drives his Ford Mustang convertible car across a bridge over a river and reaches the entrance gate of the air station which is headquarters for the Naval Air Training Command. Guard at entrance gate shows the way. Four aircraft of the Navy Blue Angels precision flying team are shown performing aerial maneuvers.. Man views the USS Lexington (CV-16) naval aircraft carrier at dock. Several recent college graduates, all participants in the Navy Aviation Officer Candidate program (AOC) check-in to start the program and greet each other. Officer teaches Principles of leadership in class using an overhead projector. Naval aviation students march and exercise under supervision. They play football. They perform physical exercise drills. A participant struggles with situps. Close-up of the face of a commanding officer drill instructor pushing him along. Naval band plays music. Personnel march in uniform in graduation ceremony after the 11 week program. Officer presents graduation degree one by one to them. Four U.S. Navy North American T-28 Trojan aircraft fly over the field in formation. African American commissioned officer and his wife walk up to their apartment door, off-base, carrying grocery bags. Other graduates carry luggage to Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) and arrange photographs of women on a table and talk. Low aerial view approaching flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CV-43). Commissioned officers on board the carrier sit at dinner table and talk.
A soldier of United States Army 1st INF Division sits besides a pool for rest and recuperation during war in Vietnam. Four soldiers jump into the pool at Stand Down center and play with a football. An old man under an umbrella watch them play the game. One of the soldiers gets out of the pool whereas others continue to play.
Italian Prisoners of War enjoy a game of football on the hangar deck of United States Navy ship USS Wasp (CV-18) on their way to Naples, Italy after World War II. A large number of Italian prisoners cheer the players. A band parades on the flight deck of the carrier.
Football match between Princeton and Yale in Connecticut, United States. Match in progress. Crowd cheer and applaud. Princeton takes the Big Three Ivy title, defeating Yale 27-21.
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