New U.S. army recruits seated at benches in the classification center, taking notes, as an instructor at a blackboard tells them how to fill out their classification questionnaires, during World War 2. View of machines processing the questionnaires. Hollerith 88 column punch cards being sorted by machine. Newspaper article about the Air Force efforts to improve classification and assignments of new airmen. A recruit being counseled. An Airmen in barracks, filling out a post card form to complain about his assignment. Servicemen working with sewing machines and at long cobbler's benches repairing shoes. U.S. soldiers in pith helmets, laying communications cable from a truck. A soldier recording information about a shipment of supplies. Soldiers filling 5-gallon "jerry cans" with fuel from a hose. Others serving at a communications center in woods. A soldier fastening a cable to a tank. Soldier standing on a truck. Large group of soldiers gathered to listen to a lecture about explosives. Army draftsmen at their work tables. Soldiers using information and training materials.(Narrator states these materials are often ignored.) An army newsmap for Monday, August 31, 1942 posted on an Army office wall. A sergeant points to July, 1943, on a current calendar next to it, illustrating that the newsmap is long out-of-date. View of another news map and narrator notes they are produced weekly. An officer speaking to an auditorium of soldiers. A soldier arranging his personal gear. Infantry on field maneuvers, firing rifles as they advance across a field. Soldiers firing a Browning water-cooled machine gun; a mortar; and a 105mm M101A1 howitzer. The sergeant using a newsmap to brief his staff about the progress of the war. Opening frames of a War Department Film Bulletin, and soldiers in a theater, watching the film. Opening frames of the film,"Why We Fight," that goes on to show animated map of the German advance across Europe in World War 2. Scenes of German forces on the move, towing artillery, riding on tanks, and entering towns as they invade countries of Europe. Women and children running in streets under bombardment, and civilians fleeing from their homes during aerial bombing. A Bombed out city and civilian corpses lying on the ground. Women in Poland, identifying their dead and grieving over them. German Heinkel He 111 aircraft dropping bombs. Norwegians evacuating the city in trucks, and other vehicles and on foot, during the German invasion. A squadron of German Messerschmitt Bf-109 aircraft in flight. German Ju-87, Stuka dive bombers diving on targets. Civilians rushing to a bomb shelter, and other refugees boarding a truck to evacuate. More He-111 bombers dropping bombs. A Ju-52 trimotor transport (type used to transport German paratroopers). Buildings ablaze in a town. Large formations of German aircraft of various types flying overhead. Building destroyed and burning from bombing. Ju-87s flying close past the camera.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps working on the radio equipment in the United States. Long range forecast by the radar instruments. Men gather on a field testing weather analysis and automatic weather station forecasting instruments. Man seated in a large portable spinning radar device in the field. The instruments dropped by parachute send the weather observations details.
A film depicts demolition procedures practiced by U.S. Army soldiers in World War 2. Soldiers placing the demolition charges on practice targets in the United States. The charges are connected and fixed on the targets. The targets explode. A tank moving on the field. The varying amounts of charges required for the demolition of different obstacles is demonstrated. Several demolition bags kept against various obstacles. A steel anti vehicular Belgian Gate obstacle. Soldiers arrive near the obstacle and fix the demolition charges. The obstacle explodes. A vehicle passes on the way. (World War II period).
U.S. submarines at a harbor in the United States. Sailors aboard a tender. A submarine tied up alongside the tender. Sailors work on the submarine. Bow of the submarine as it backs away from the tender. Ships in the foreground. Splash in water due to an explosion.
U.S. submarines at a harbor in the United States. A submarine comes alongside the dock. Band plays at the end of the dock. Officers on board the submarine. They shake hands and discuss amongst themselves. A blind folded Japanese being brought over the bow from the submarine onto the dock. Mail call for the sailors. Men receive mails. Sailors seated aboard the submarine as they read their mails.
U.S. submarine at port in the United States. Men standing near the torpedo. The torpedo being slipped down the hatch into the submarine. Signalman clearing search light at the conning tower.
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