New recruits being inducted into the U.S. Army. They arrive at boot camp and undergo basic training: marching; calisthenics; weapons training on firing range. Recruits receiving technical training. Instructor describing Bohr atom model. Army soldiers receive training regarding new hi-tech weapons systems.
Scenes of destroyed Lines of Communication (LOCs) during World War II. Lines of supply trucks burning on a highway. Destroyed rail lines, trains, and locomotives. Destroyed seaports and channels. U.S. paratroopers board a C-119 transport aircraft. Helicopters transporting U.S. Army infantry. Many helicopters in flight. Paratroops dropping and landing in large numbers. Troops running from landing helicopters. Helicopters carrying artillery pieces and supplies.
A communications center setup in a U.S. Army GMC CCKW 2 1⁄2 ton 6X6 truck. Army radio operator at work inside the truck. Soldiers operating communications equipment on the roof of a vehicle. Soldiers at work inside the vehicle. U.S. army gun crews firing Howitzers; M1919 Browning .30 caliber medium machine guns; Browning M1917A1 Caliber .30 Heavy Machine Guns, and rifles, from positions hidden in foliage. U.S. troops manually rolling artillery pieces through the underbrush. Infantry being dropped off and picked up by Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw helicopters. An artillery piece being transported by helicopter. About 10 helicopters in flight low over the ground.
Camera pans across U.S. soldiers engaged in live fire maneuvers to maintain readiness for ground combat. Scene shifts to weary American soldiers taking a break in World War II. One smokes a cigarette. Another smokes a cigar. Scene shifts again to U.S. soldiers on maneuvers, walking along a wooded trail. Others are seen marching in a desert environment.
Smoke rises from exploding shell. U.S. Army soldiers crawl across a field and into trenches, with live machine gun fire directed low over their heads. They employ their weapons, including flame throwers, and attack several buildings, cutting their way through barbed wire in the process. Smoke fills the area.
President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.
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