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U.S. Army Air Force Fighter (USAAF) strafes ground targets in Europe during World War 2
Footage from aircraft-mounted camera of Lieutenant Tordoff of the 352nd Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group, VIII Fighter Command, U.S. Army Air Force. The Fighter makes multiple passes on roadway targets and German vehicle convoys, destroying vehicles and causing plumes of smoke. Another pass damages a vehicle on a railroad. Subsequent passes of roadway targets, including a moving vehicle. The aircraft strafes another ground target causing a massive explosion and sending a piece of debris flying. Additional ground attacks by the aircraft, large plume of smoke above a target.
U.S. Army bayonet training film overview of bayonet qualification course, pre World War 2
Pre World War 2, overview of U.S. bayonet qualification course. Narrator describes the course as the visuals progress. View of a wide field with many wooden and straw dummies. Some of the dummies have cardboard circles pasted on them to provide targets for bayonet thrust. Some dummies have poles sticking out to force a parrying motion before thrust. Scene changes to a series of instructional graphics of the different training dummies. The narrator again describes which actions should be taken for each unique dummy type.
U.S. Army soldiers conduct bayonet assault exercise in 1938, pre World War 2
Training film of bayonet assault drill in 1938, pre WW2. A group of U.S. Army soldiers run through a field with bayonets pointed forward, a line of training dummies in the background. The soldiers lay prone in a grassy field, firing upon their mock enemy. Shot of the "enemy" soldiers, cowering in a trench to protect themselves from the gunfire. Now pinned in the trench, the group of soldiers in the field stand up to advance on the enemy with bayonets. The men charge the trench with bayonets at the ready. The "enemy" soldiers in the trench flee in disarray.
U.S. Military unload supplies to support an aerial bombing campaign of the Japanese in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1942, during World War 2
U.S. troops gathered around a tent, eating, in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, in 1942, during WW2. A line of soldiers carrying plates and bowls and cups waits to receive food. A man cooks food on a stove. Soldiers sit on the ground eating and warming by a fire. Wide view of the beach with ships and cranes out on the water. Crates of supplies stacked on the beach, soldiers move about. A soldier stacks an ammunition crate onto a large pile. Dozens of unfinned cylindrical bomb bodies on the shore. A crane, tractor, and bulldozer are unloaded from a boat. Panoramic view of a wide flat area to be built into an airfield, covered in shallow lakes.
Extreme grasshopper outbreak and emergency control efforts using new insecticides in the United States, 1951
From a Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine (BEPQ) film on grasshopper plagues, made in 1951 in the United States. Men from BEPQ egg survey teams use shovels and wire baskets to dig up and sift through earth, searching for grasshopper eggs. Close up of hands working on the dirt. Grasshopper insect eggs in hand. Narrator notes that the teams have discovered unusually large egg populations. Scene changes to printing of warning papers containing information on a possible grasshopper outbreak. Close up of man from Grasshopper control on the telephone, warning about the possible outbreak. Close up of paper being printed, hands typing at a typewriter, and words on the papers. Maps containing information on the possible grasshopper infestation are created and printed. A team of men pore over maps, planning for the potential outbreak. Truck drives through green field, team of men perform a spot check to determine the status of the outbreak threat, swiping nets back and forth to catch hoppers. An outbreak is confirmed. Scenes of hoppers flying in swarms above farm crop fields. Officials review and plan for the outbreak at a table. A convoy of trucks carrying equipment drives down a roadway. Mixing stations for production of new insecticides are established. A man moves material with a wheel barrow. Belt conveyor moves materials for the fabrication of insecticides. Bran and sawdust loaded into a truck and stockpiled at an emergency station. Surveyor at work collecting grasshoppers. Chartered aircraft are loaded with pesticide and fly over fields, dusting the crop to save the harvest and prevent the spread of grasshoppers. Insect bait is prepared in a mixing machine for less infested areas. Farmers spread bait and insecticides on their crop. Close up of dying grasshopper. Swarms of grasshoppers in the sky, grasshoppers feeding on crops. Mixing and loading of insecticide into planes. Planes fly over crops, dusting them Trucks and vehicles drive across fields spreading bait and insecticide. Dead grasshoppers in piles on the ground. Close up of farmers reviewing and writing on documents. A single hopper slowly moves on the ground, another dying nearby.
U.S. Coast Guard crews, in England, preparing their landing craft for the Normandy invasion of World War II
Landing craft being readied, in England, for the Normandy Invasion in World War 2. Sailors filling water cask on emergency life raft. LCI(L),U.S. Landing craft Infantry, Large, number 87. A small boat leaves that craft and another passes the camera boat. LCI(L) number 325 is seen (and a barrage balloon in far background). Coast Guard crew at work cleaning rust from craft 325. One is painting the deck. View of two LCI(L)s underway in water.
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