A training film about fighting against the enemy during World Wear II, focusing on themes of nerves, fear, and combat stress among soldiers. The enactment shows American soldiers as they fire at enemy during a battle. The U.S. tank fires. The tank catches fire and soldiers fall off the tank and die. The U.S. tank on fire after being hit by the enemy. Jim, an American soldier, fires rifle. He observes German soldiers bunching up and then being hit by machine gun fire. A fellow soldier near him is struck and dies.
An outline of U.S. military canal defense and base security requirements and future requirements regarding proposed canal relocations in Panama. A U.S. officer conducts a JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) briefing in the United States. Maps of the Canal Zone and Panama shows military installations, communications facilities and training areas. An officer points out Quarry Heights, Fort Amador, Howard AFB, Fort Kobbe, Rodman Naval Air Station and Fort Clayton on the map of Panama. An aerial photograph of Quarry Heights which will provide operational support for United States Southern Command Headquarters. An aerial picture of a bridge in Panama City and Quarry Heights in the background. Aerial photographs of Bridge of the Americas, Albrook AFB, Rodman Naval Station, Howard AFB and Fort Amador. An officer briefs. Maps of Fort Sherman and Galeta Island. Aerial photographs of Fort Sherman and Galeta Island.
U.S. Army Air Force activities during World War 2. An aviation cadet stands. Group of aviation cadets on flight line at an airfield. Animation of groups going through air and ground training. AT-6 Texan training planes in flight. WASPs (Women Air Force Service Pilots or WASP) board AT-6s. Woman in cockpit of a U.S. Army Air Forcs C-47 Skytrain transport plane. Two women in cockpit of a plane towing a gunnery target. WACs (Women's Army Corps) in a control hangar. Woman fuels an aircraft.
World War II U.S. light cruiser in Panama. Light cruiser moves towards loading docks in U.S. Tugboats on both sides of the ship. Shells being loaded in magazine or ammunition storage area of the ship. Men bring food supplies. Light cruiser underway at sea. Secondary battery crew make practice runs with a dual purpose gun. Facilities aboard a ship like a drug store below the deck of the ship, barber shop, service store, machine shop for repair, food being prepared in kitchen. Ship at Panama Canal. Ship underway at sea.
A film based on getting U.S. supplies to China from Chabua, India during World War II. A dummy antiaircraft emplacement at Chabua airfield. Gun crew around artillery gun at the field. Drums are rolled out from railroad cars. Fuel is poured into containers from the drums. Indian laborers at work. Bombs at a munitions dump. Native laborers unload crates from a truck and load them into U.S. Army Air Force C-46 Commando transport aircraft parked at Chabua airfield. A trainer plane and an ambulance are loaded aboard a C-46. The laborers roll bombs into the aircraft. C-46 taxi on the airfield for take off. Fuel barrels at Chabua airfield. A USAAF C-87 Liberator Express transport plane lands at Chabua airfield. Supply crates loaded aboard the C-87.
Wrecked German and Italian aircraft in Sicily after bombings done by U.S. Army Air Forces A-36 Invader dive bombers of 86th Fighter Bomber Group during World War II. U.S. soldier examines the wreckage of German plane near a hangar. Wrecked Italian Macchi C202 fighter aircraft on an airfield. Soldier removes machine gun belt from a fighter aircraft. Soldier inspects a Nazi German aircraft inside the hangar. The aircraft has noseart depicting Mickey Mouse holding an axe overhead while riding atop a bomb. Soldier looks at other aircraft parked inside the hangar.
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