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NATO forces demonstrate readiness in Europe

Views of NATO forces in various places in Europe. A man sits on a step smoking a cigar. Nearby is a camouflaged tank, that demonstrates movement of its turret and gun. The gunner descends into the tank. Policeman directs tank and other traffic at an intersection. A Chimney Sweep in top hat, smoking a cigarette, stands by his bicycle, next to a NATO machine gun position, at a roadside. He gives a light to one of the soldiers in the gun emplacement. A tank rolls past the emplacement. An American gun crew runs to their heavy artillery gun and prepares it to fire. They demonstrate dry firing the gun. Another American gun crew mans an antiaircraft weapon and demonstrates its mobility.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1952
Duration: 3 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074238
Training and mental preparation of U.S. soldiers for fighting in Europe during World War 2

A film on the logistics and the psychology of war. Primarily shows training exercises, combat simulations, and dramatizations. Images of soldier and explosions. A U.S. sailor firing a Mark 4, 20 mm. anti aircraft. Gun from a ship. A U.S. M3 Stuart light tank heading toward the camera. American soldiers ostensibly falling to enemy explosions and gunfire. A shell exploding where American troops are hunkered down. Artillery batteries firing at night. A soldier cutting barbed wire and triggering a booby trap. . Troops under fire during amphibious assault. Soldiers manning an M1919A4 .30-caliber Light Machine Gun. Troops advancing through forest under fire. Some fall. Staged encounter between U.S. infantrymen and German soldier. The kill each other. Entire battle front erupting in explosions and smoke. Newspaper article by Ernie Pyle about too little training of U.S. troops. New York reporter's article noting that U.S. soldiers in Europe don't understand why they aren't fighting the Japanese who attacked America. Staged hand to hand combat between a German soldier and two American soldiers.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075786
The U.S. Army Signal Corps in War and Peace. Descriptions and demonstrations of VT (proximity-fused) munitions

Opening scene shows troops of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division engaged at Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge, in 1944, during World War II. They advance through fires and set up defenses in buildings, firing rifles from apartment windows. Outside, riflemen fire from behind a concrete barrier. Closeup of one firing his M1 Garand rifle. Glimpses of infantry firing mortars and walls falling to mortar fire. Gun crews firing heavy field artillery pieces, some under camouflage nets and others in the open. Intervening slate reads: "VT." and introduces postwar discussion of Signal Corps-developed proximity fuse, using animated cartoon. Shows how it proximity shells increase their explosive envelope compared to regular time fused munitions. U.S. Army gunner fire a number of proximity shells that burst above ground targets in the distance. A cartoon shows the proximity fused munition being used by a fighter aircraft. A Republic P-47 fighter plane is seen firing VT munitions from guns in its wings. Aerial bombs falling. A line of VT bombs exploding above ground.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675075813
U.S. soldiers retreat and advance into Bastogne during the Battle of Bulge in World War II.

U.S. Army soldiers fight against the Germans during the Battle of Bulge in World War II. U.S. soldiers retreat and engineers prepare and lay mines and barbed wire fences. U.S. soldiers on a snow covered field. A map of Belgium depicts the Nazi drive into the region of Bulge. Allied aircraft bombard German town. Nazi prisoners of war being marched. U.S. Army Air Forces C-47B aircraft drop supplies to U.S. troops at Bastogne. U.S. 3rd Army advances in the regions. Damaged buildings in the city and dead bodies in streets. Soldiers fire rifles in a street in Haguenau, France. Credential being checked by officers. Soldiers fire rifles and artillery and speak over field phone. Alsatian women being freed from a prison. Senator James F. Byrnes speaks about the U.S. soldiers fighting in the war during a war bond drive.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078190
U.S. Marine Artillery Battery firing 105mm howitzers. Buildings being destroyed by artillery fire.

U.S. Marine artillery battery firing 105mm howitzers. Smoke arises due to the firing. Marine watches through the binoculars. View of buildings being destroyed by artillery bombardment. Montage of artillery, machine guns, troops advancing at end of film. (World War II period).

Location: European Theater
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027738
View of crew member standing above open bottom hatch inside a Heinkel H-111 bomber, airborne over Germany.

Interior view of German Heinkel H-111 bomber, as parachute equipped crewman stands over open bottom hatch of the aircraft. View from another airplane of the H-111 with objects appearing to parachute from it. Chutes are not open. One seems to stream, without opening.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675044916
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