U.S. Army IX Corps at desert training centers in California. Bulldozer and road grader in operation. Various vehicles move along roads and highways. Soldiers clearing road. Trucks and jeeps carrying soldiers arrive. A crane passes off. Various military vehicles including trucks and tanks carrying troops move along a road in the desert. The convoy includes military medical trucks. A tank passes by. A half track tows a caisson along dirt road. Several tanks follow. (World War II period).
U.S. Army IX Corps soldiers during a simulated attack on 03 July 1943. Soldiers lie in rutted desert terrain behind smoke screen and barbed wired barricades. 0630: Men and equipment moving towards action. Half track tanks, trucks and troops proceeding through valley. Soldier sitting on ground and shaving. (World War II period).
Film begins with camera panning over the desert at the U.S. Army IX Corps camp in California during World War 2. Moving vehicles spew smoke, forming a thin smoke screen across the background. Military vehicles of various kinds are maneuvering over the site. Two M3 Lee tanks raise dust as they move toward the camera. Closeup of one with gunners in the main and the sponson turrets of the tank. Various military vehicles, including half M3 half track armored personnel carriers, jeeps and trucks move along a dirt road. An M3 lee tank moves down from an upper road to a lower one, creating dust clouds as it does. It passes between some foot soldiers and an M3 armored personnel carrier (M3). Lots of dust is raised by the tank.
U.S. soldiers demonstrate a mobile laundry developed by Quartermaster Corps for the troops in field. A mobile laundry truck passes through a forest in Maryland, United States. It is parked near a pond. Two soldiers put a landing gear on the ground so that a container may rest on it. Two soldiers set the corner stand jack. The trailer is uncoupled and the prime mover is camouflaged under a tree. Four soldiers set up the laundry machine. The soldiers connect a pipe from the machine to the pond. Two soldiers setting up a water pump. The soldiers unloading laundry from a truck. A soldier puts on the washing machine. A soldiers loads the machine with clothes. A soldier takes out the clothes from the centrifugal drier. Two soldiers take out dry clean cloths. Some soldiers pack the clean cloths. A truck filled with the clean clothes leaves. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers demonstrate gas attack and chemical warfare decontamination techniques at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland during World War 2. An aircraft generates a heavy smoke screen. Another aircraft sprays the smoked area with a chemical. Soldiers on a half track put on cellophane cover and, once covered, they put on gas masks. They then practice attacking the aircraft while wearing the protective equipment. The cellophane and the combat vehicles are heavily contaminated by the chemical. The soldiers remove the cellophane cover and throw them out. Soldiers take on decontamination procedures.
U.S. Army soldiers prepare to destroy ammunitions in the United States. A soldier puts some ammunition on the ground. One soldier stands while another spreads black powder on the ground. Three soldiers standing near a barrack move inside. The ammunition burns away. A soldier attaches a wire to the spread black powder. Soldiers then move away and the black powder burns with huge flames.
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