Soldier demonstrates each non-verbal command used to signal trainees when teaching bayonet skills. Each command (often a hand gesture or movement) signifies a different move with the bayonet. Narrator lists each move while the soldier demonstrates the commands associated with said moves. Performed in a large field with some sort of residential or barracks-type buildings in the background. Pre World War 2.
Slow motion demonstration of the main bayonet attack sequence. Guard position, long thrust attack, withdrawal, short thrust attack, withdrawal, jab attack, back to guard position. Narrator says the names of each movement of the sequence as the soldier demonstrating reaches them.
Pre World War 2: U.S. Army description and demonstration of the use of the training stick in bayonet practice. The training stick is a long stick with a loop at the base end and padding at the far end. Footage of two soldiers practicing and switching roles by throwing the training stick and bayonet to one another, then practicing again. They practice on a large field, with suspended straw dummies behind them. Further in the distance, more soldiers can be seen walking in a line.
A large group of soldiers in 1930s U.S. Army uniform practice bayonet attacks in two circles. One soldier is at the center of the circle with the training stick, calling the soldiers in the circle in towards him one at a time to practice with the training stick. Narrator describes the exercise. Soldiers performing the same exercise, this time with their backs turned so that they do not know when they will be called to the center of the circle. Demonstration and description of another exercise, this time a competition between the soldiers for accuracy and proficiency with the bayonet attacks.
Step by step demonstration and description of the first method of disarming an opponent armed with a rifle and bayonet. Closeup of training bayonet. Disarming sequence shown slowly from multiple camera angles. Multiple full speed demonstrations as U.S. Army soldiers switch roles with each disarm during training exercise.
Narrator describes the second of two rifle and bayonet disarming sequences while two soldiers demonstrate step-by-step. Closeups of M1903 Springfield rifle with training bayonet attached. Closeups of U.S. Army soldier's face acting distressed as he is disarmed. Slow and full speed demonstrations of the full sequence. Soldiers swap roles with each disarm event. Pre-WW2.
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