U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt launches the new aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10), successor to the earlier Yorktown (CV-5) lost in the battle of Midway during World War 2. The First Lady holds a bouquet and talks to an officer. People crowd at a shipyard for the launch and cheer. The ship begins to move down the ways prematurely, so Mrs. Roosevelt has to hurry with the Christening. View of the ship going down the ways and entering the water, at the Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard in Virginia.
U.S. Army artillery soldiers are taught invasion tactics in the Unites States. Physical training of the artillerymen. The artillerymen carry a log and toss the log. Men practice physical exercises. They climb up a tree one after the other and get down a rope. Dynamite explosions in a field. The men crawl under the fire and cross a trench. Smoke due to an explosion. The artillerymen fire machine guns during their practice. They pass under fences in prone position. (World War II period).
Italian fliers land their aircraft at an Allied occupied air base (probably in Southern Italy) to join the Allies for the war against Nazi Germany during World War II. A three-engine Italian Savoia-Marchetti bomber in flight. The aircraft lands at the airfield. Other aircraft parked on the airfield. A hangar in the background. Italian fliers step from the aircraft. U.S. and Italian officer exchange greetings. Aircraft in formation. Italian fighter aircraft land and taxi at the air base. Officers and fliers. The fliers leave their aircraft. Italian fliers seated around a table eat American meal.
Activities of men at a saw mill in Formosa, Taiwan. A railroad bridge. A train proceeds southward. A bus drives on a dirt road. A view of the countryside from the train. The train moves past a railroad station. A bus drives past a building. A car drives on a street. Huge logs are moved using an overhead trolley in a lumber yard. A trolley carries a wooden log and drops the log in a river. A log kept on a conveyor belt in a saw mill. Men at work in the mill. A man stencil boards of lumber.
A documentary shows a training program of U.S. Army hand picked volunteer soldiers in a secret training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. The students, masked to conceal their identity, enter the wooded area. The quarters for the students in the wooded region. They work out in a trainnasium. The soldiers swing on a rope. Climb up on a rope and practice other guerrilla tactics in the obstacle course. The students stand in formation and an OSS (Office of Strategic Services) officer teaches them the new pistol techniques. A target in the background. The officer wearing a mask demonstrates different handgun techniques specially adapted for fast offensive actions. The officer teaches them the firing action of the hand gun and students practice the action. A close up of a student wearing mask and practicing. They learn the techniques through demonstration and supervised practice. A student stands in front of a target. The officer instructs him and other look on. He fires at the target. A close up of the target. The student firing. He removes the magazine and reloads the magazine. The officer instructing and the student fire. The OSS officer walks up to the target and points out at the good shots.
A documentary shows a training program of U.S. hand picked volunteer soldiers in a secret training camp for guerrilla warfare during World War II. The students stand in a group and wearing a mask. An OSS officer and a student demonstrate the method of disarming. The methods include a quick blow with the edge of a hand across the wrist, press the wrist of the opponent and tighten the cylinder. The students watch the demonstration.
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