A U.S. Army Air Forces ( USAAF ) training film on instructions to fly USAAF Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress aircraft in the United States. An officer turns on a radio switch. Trainees wear head phones. Men check fuel pressure gauge. Governor control is operated to get desired revolutions per minute ( RPM). The RPM gauge shows readings. A system engineer communicates with men in aircraft. A gauge shows flap position. The flaps are turned down. A dial shows zero flap position. A compass chord, a hydrolic pressure gauge and a suction gauge show readings. A trainee turns a vacuum pump switch. He checks for oxygen cylinder pressure. An officer checks filter warning lights. A trainee turns on an output switch. A pilot communicates with a man in a control tower. A crew man gives hand signals to a man on the ground. The man removes wheel chokes. Switches and handles are operated as the aircraft taxis. The pilot locks the tail wheel. The aircraft taxis past other parked aircraft. Th pilot turns on the automatic control switch. The tail wheel is unlocked.
U.S. 35th Division, 320th Infantry Regiment in Nancy, France during World War II. Medium tanks fire in the area surrounding the town of Dombasle. Smoke rising from behind trees. Tanks on a field fire machine guns.
U.S. 35th Division, 320th Infantry Regiment in Nancy, France during World War II. A tank on a field fires machine guns. Smoke rising from behind trees. A man standing in a turret.
U.S. 35th Division, 320th Infantry Regiment in Nancy, France during World War II. Buildings in the town. Smoke around the buildings. Tanks on a field fire machine guns. A large machine gun on a tank is fired. A stone wall in the foreground. Three soldiers in a corner look on as machine guns are fired from a tank at a distance.
U.S. 35th Division, 320th Infantry Regiment in Nancy, France during World War II. Machine guns mounted on tanks are fired at Dombasle. The tanks advance. Smoke rises from the town. A big gun from another tank is fired at the town.
U.S. Army 35th Division, 320th Infantry Regiment in Nancy, France during World War II. Smoke rises in the background as American infantry soldiers run across a field between the tanks. The infantrymen wade through water up to their shoulders, holding their rifles above their heads to keep them dry. One soldier loses his footing while wading and his rifle goes underwater; he then struggles in deep water and returns back to shore. Few soldiers advance across a field as a tank protects them with machine gun fire.
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