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United States Army soldiers use sound deception to deceive the German in Film 'Sonic Deception'.
Film 'Sonic Deception' shows the use of sounds to deceive the enemy (sometimes described as the "Ghost Army" in World War 2). Dramatization shows United States troops crossing river in small boats and arriving on beach. They establish beachhead on river bank and defeat German troops located there, having arrived by suprise. Film recounts through actors how a German spy at a German army corps headquarters informs about the presence of United States tanks and trucks. Film demonstrates how sound recordings were used by U.S. soldiers to create false impression of troop activities including bridge building and tank and vehicle movements, in order to serve as a decoy and mislead Germany enemy forces about U.S. Army activities. Dramatization shows German officials consulting and looking at maps. German soldier looks through binoculars and informs officials through phone. Tanks cross a bridge and artillery on field. Actual scenes of front gate of Army Experimental Center station headquarters at Pine Camp in Great Bend, New York (upper New York State). U.S. Army soldiers are shown recording via microphone the sounds of actual bridge construction at the center. The microphone routes to a recording truck where a turntable for pressing recordings is running, creating a phonograph recording of the bridge building decoy sounds. Recording of other sounds is shown, including sound of a bulldozer at work, sounds of men unloading trucks, and sounds of tanks crossing a bridge. Soldier is seen selecting a phonograph record from the Army Experimental Station Library.
California's Governor Earl Warren is appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Eisenhower in the United States.
California's Governor Earl Warren appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in the United States. United States President Dwight Eisenhower appoints California's Governor Earl Warren as the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Earl Warren walks along with Californians to occupy the nation's top judicial post. He smiles. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren presides over history making decision by the highest tribunal for many months.
United States Army troops communicate with field telephones in the front (WW2)
'Your Job in the Signal Corps' discusses the importance of communication lines in the army during World War II. A sign on the door of the office of a Major General. U.S. Major General H. G. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer speaks about the U.S. Army Signal Corps and their role in all the three divisions of army. Major General Ingles speaks from his office. A soldier on top of a moving tank. Tanks in a field. Mechanized units in a field during a war. The troops communicate from the field. U.S. Army Air Force aircraft in flight and view of pilot and copilot in cockpit. Bomb bay door opens. Soldier on aircraft operates bomb sight device. Bombs fall from bombers and hit the ground. Artillery is fired. A U.S. soldier reads a map and talks over a field phone. Gun crew fires artillery. Railway gun firing. U.S. Navy guns firing from ship. A boat lands on a beach head. Troops walk in a jungle. A soldier blows a whistle. Allied soldiers fire a bazooka on a moving German armored vehicle. Soldier sends a morse code transmission using a telegraph machine. A soldier calls with a telephone. Another soldier uses the radio for communication. Carrier Pigeons and rockets are also used to stay in touch. A hand fires a signal rocket. A messenger hand delivers a message. Officers making calls from their desks, field telephones and telephones on trees.
Reduction in time taken to cover distance between places due to the development of air power in the United States.
A film titled 'Make America first in the air' on the development of air power of the United States. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas. A covered wagon train of settlers moving west along desert terrain, depicting the Santa Fe Trail of 1849. Mountains in the background. Animated map of the U.S. with a line from New York to Kansas, and continuing through New Mexico and Arizona to California. Railroads decreased the time taken to cover the distance between the places to four days. A train using a steam locomotive moves to the right along a double track. Animation over a map of the U.S. with a line from New York to California. Airways further reduced the time taken to cover the distance to 27 hours. A U.S. Army Air Service Fokker T-2 aircraft in flight.
Passengers board a Larsen JL-6 transport aircraft and men load cargo in an early model aircraft in the United States.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. Passengers climb the stairs and into an early model bi winged, twin engined passenger airliner. Passengers exit an early model touring car and get into a U.S. Navy Larsen JL-6 transport aircraft. A pilot gets into the cockpit of the passenger aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. Passengers getting in and out of the cabin of an early model seaplane. An Aeromarine West Indies Airways U.S. and Cuban mail service amphibian, which is a converted U.S. Navy TN-1O airship, in flight over water. Passengers looking out of the windows of the converted TN-1O airship. Men load cargo into the cockpit of a United States Army Air Service Curtiss JN-6 aircraft.
A modified Airco DH-4 aircraft loaded with mail sacks in flight in the United States.
Aircraft are used for different purposes in the United States. The U.S. Air Mail Service makes use of commercial aviation. Workmen place mail sacks in the front cockpit of a U.S. mail service modified Airco DH-4 aircraft. A pilot in the back cockpit. The aircraft takes off. Animation shows a small aircraft going over a line on a map from New York across the United States. An early model U.S. mail service aircraft in flight. Animation of a small airplane traveling along a line on a map from New York to San Francisco. Chicago, Omaha and Cheyenne highlighted on the map.
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