A training film on how to ski for the military troops during World War II. The demonstration of the Christianna stem turn. A skier demonstrating the technique. The shoulder, knees and the body is kept forward and the skier slides downhill. Other men skiing and demonstrating the technique.
A training film on how to ski for the military troops during World War II. The demonstration of the jump turns and terrain turns. The purpose of these turns is to take the skis completely out of the snow. The skiers jumping and sliding downhill.
A training film on how to ski for the military troops in World War II. Fully loaded troops on skis. They carry rifles and other ammunition. Troops advancing in the area. Troops sliding downhill with the help of skis in a line.
A film features the training of U.S. soldiers. A statue of soldiers in the U.S. Soldiers marching in a field during World War II. They hold rifles. The soldiers standing at attention. They are being trained for various jobs. The soldiers learn to fire artillery. Skiers learn skiing basics on a snow covered area. Some soldiers aboard a jeep learn various maneuvers. Soldiers aboard a tank. Others working on an electric pole. Airplanes flying in formation overhead. Aerial view of soldiers marching in formation. A painting of a historical war in which the soldiers are standing aboard a boat and holding a U.S. flag. The soldiers standing at attention.
A film on the Women Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) in the United States during World War II. WAACs parade at the end of their training period. Officers review them. Recruits stand at attention and are ready to serve the army. An officer seated at his desk in an office. A woman stands nearby. A woman driving a jeep. Another woman repairs a jeep. The WAACs prepare food for soldiers. Animated map locates work areas of the women. A train passing on a railway track. Newly assigned WAACs arrive at their quarters. Ships in a harbor. The first WAAC detachment in North Africa. Clerical, technical and other types of work done by the WAACs. They work with soldiers. They draw military maps and charts. Group of African American women soldiers relieve African American male soldiers working as switchboard operators. Women are shown serving as dispatchers, as typists, developing film in photographic laboratories, serving as pigeoneers who handle carrier pigeons used in war communications, serving as radio operators, issuing clothing in quartermaster houses, working in post offices, fingerprinting, and collecting rations at a commissary. Female African American soldiers and and female white soldiers work at a motor pool. The WAACs marching.
U.S. Air Force officers return to the United States in World War II. The officers with their families in Washington DC. Buildings in the background. One of the officers returns to his home in Piqua, Ohio. A sign board reads: 'Welcome to Piqua'. Buildings along the sides of the street. The officer with his family in his home. People gather at his home to greet him. He hugs his sister.
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