Student physical fitness program at the La Sierra High School in Carmichael, California. External view of La Sierra High School. Gym teacher blows his whistle. Teenage boys run and climb bars on jungle gym, shirtless. Young men doing pushups, climbing on parallel bars, and climbing a peg wall. Group exercise doing lower back extensions. Young man slips and slides on rubber mat soaked with water sprinkler.
African American students are given health instruction at the Calhoun Colored School in Lowndes County, Alabama, in the United States. A nurse shows the student malaria breeding areas. Young African American children students doing physical training exercises and stretches.. Scenes from the boarding dormitory: A girl combing hair of another girl. A group of female students play a game of checkers. A female student reads a book while other reads newspaper. A girl sits and writes something. Three students sit near a console phonograph record player as one student plays a record. Young couples dancing at a school dance. On the musician's bandstand are the words, "Shannons Pioneer Club Orchestra".
Entire film is devoted to challenging obstacles that U.S. Army Air Forces aviation cadets are required to run through as part of their basic training. They are seen climbing walls. running up platforms, jumping and catching hold of ropes, and facing similar kinds of physical challenges on an extensive obstacle course. (World War II; WW II; World War 2; World War Two)
Merchant Marine Officer candidates learn seamanship at the United States Merchant Marine Academy ( USMMA ) at Kings Point in New York, United States. Merchant Marine Officer candidates practice signaling using signal flags. An officer teaches how to operate an equipment in a class. The candidates learn to find places on a globe. They work in an engine room. They use hand tools. They learn the fundamentals of electric engineering in a class. They learn to load and fire guns. The candidates exercise for physical fitness. (World War II period).
Military training of OSS cadets. Agents who are assigned a military cover during World War II, receive training provided by the Office of Strategic Services in the United States. The cadets learn to make their beds. An alarm goes off. The cadets wake up, dress, and turn up for physical exercises. The cadets do the exercises and calisthenics as taught by an instructor. The cadets in a chow line receiving a meal. They take food. They sit at a table and eat food.
Devastation and death in the Soviet Union after attacks by Nazi Germany during World War II. People mourn the death of Russian civilians. Corpses of Russian atrocity victims frozen in the snow. Women bend and weep over the dead. View of corpses of burned children in a building. Girls who had been sexually and physically assaulted by the German soldiers are escorted across a snowy courtyard, weeping. Bodies of murdered Soviet citizens hanging from poles after they resisted the Nazis. Soviet citizens and soldiers recite a pledge to revenge the Nazis.
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