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Instructor explains about the infrared set of Sniper Rifle at Fort Benning in Georgia.
Instructor demonstrates functioning of Sniper Rifle at Fort Benning in Georgia. He aims the rifle at target. Instructor removes back pack and points at a chart next to him. Chart reads 'Infrared Set Number 120,000 Volts. He explains about the sniper scope which is mounted on a standard carbine. Instructor puts on the back pack, picks up the carbine and aims towards target.
Montage of scenes depicting U.S. military weapons in the Korean War era.
Segment of U.S. Army public information television program called, "The Big Picture." Army cameraman records firing of a Nike missile. Atomic cannon fires shell creating atomic explosion and classic mushroom cloud. Army troops exit Sikorsky YH-19 helicopters. Infantrymen climb a hill while firing rifles in unison. Animated rotating world globe. Sergeant Stuart Queen emphasizes that, in spite of new weapon systems, the individual soldier is the essential element of the Army. Technicians in missile launch control blockhouse observe launch of a missile from steel tower. View from inside the structure of missile rising, and then of smoke as it heads skyward. Radar units and cameras tracking the missile. Views from a missile, of the ground below, as it accelerates upwards. More tracking cameras. A Matador missile being launched. A Viking missile being launched. Test of anti-aircraft missile launched horizontally, striking nearby target with explosion. A thermonuclear weapon test explosion. A Corporal missile being launched. Sophisticated electronic tracking equipment employed at desert test site. Convair experimental XFY Pogo seen in vertical takeoff during trials. Anti-aircraft missile, fired from Navy ship, strikes drone target aircraft, which falls in flames. Technician stands before a virtual wall of electronic equipment. Army Signal Corps television cameraman captures field maneuvers of Landing Vehicles Tracked (LVTs) and an M4 Sherman tank. A High-flying warplane fires an air-to-air missile destroying a drone aircraft target that falls in flames. Aerial view of the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. America's top military leaders sit around a table. At the head, is Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur William Radford. To his right are: General Nathan F. Twining, USAF, and Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations (back to camera). To Radford's left are General Lyman Lemnitzer, Army chief of Staff, and General Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr. Commandant of the Marine Corps. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing heavy guns. A South Dakota Class Battleship firing her 16-inch guns. Navy aircraft being catapulted from the USS Ranger (CV-61). Gun camera view from aircraft firing guns. A USAF B-52 bomber in flight. Bombs falling from open bomb bay of bomber in flight and carpeting the ground with explosions. Low flying USAF aircraft demonstrating ground-support bombing techniques, dropping napalm and explosive bombs.
Views of the United States. Farms, cities, highways, and beaches. Destruction in Japan by atomic bomb. U.S. infantry in combat
Farmers harvesting grain and corn with machinery on American farms with a narrow tractor harvester. Steel mills and heavy industry and cargo railroads in the United States. Industrial views with smokestacks releasing much smoke and smog (also pollution scenes). Scenes of New York City with busy streets filled with cars, buses, and truck traffic, together with pedestrians. Many varied 1940s and 1950s cars on the roads. Elevated and also aerial views of U.S. highway networks busy with 1940s and 1950s cars. Views of Jones Beach, on Long Island, New York. Scenes of destruction in Japan from the atomic bomb, with sweeping views of destroyed city in Hiroshima or Nagasaki circa 1945 or 1946. U.S. Army infantrymen engaged in house-to-house fighting in Europe during World War II, firing rifles and moving between points of cover in a city filled with rubble.
New recruits enter boot camp and technical training in the U.S. Army
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.
Importance of aerial support to Infantry in the atomic age, when ordinary supply lines may be unavailable.
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.
Smaller U.S. Army dispersed forces using better communications and aerial transport in the atomic age
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.
