Opening scene shows rifles placed on each of a series of stands along the firing line of a rifle range at a basic training base in Saint Petersburg, Florida, during World War 2. U.S. Army Air Corps recruits are lined up side-by-side with their instructors, behind the firing line, awaiting instructions from the Range chief (unseen). Upon his order, they advance and take up prone positions, in pairs, at each firing position. Each recruit is assisted by his instructor and fires his rifle while his instructor observes and notes results. Non-commissioned officers (NCOs) monitor from behind the firing line. Camera pans across the firing line. Next, men are seen lowering bulls eye paper targets and replacing them with new ones that they raise high overhead, and signal with flags, when done. Views of the targets. Next trainees stand along the firing line, with Thompson M-1928 A1 submachine guns at ready. Upon command, they fire bursts from their weapons at silhouette targets. Bullets seen striking targets and dirt hill behind them. Face of Hitler and swastika are scrawled on one target.
U.S. Army Air Corps recruits l receive gas mask familiarization at a basic training base in Saint Petersburg, Florida duringf World War 2. Trainees are seen donning gas masks in preparation. Closeup of some trainees in their masks. The group enters through a doorway labeled "Danger Gas Chamber." Next, they are see exiting the doorway, carrying their masks and exhibiting some effects from tear gas, which they have been deliberately subject to as part of their familiarization training. Closeup of several men with tearing eyes from the brief exposure. Change of scene shows a smoke screen flowing over the ground. A jeep carrying several officers emerges from the smoke. Next, a cadre of trainees emerges on foot.
Allied campaign in Burma during World War II. In Burma past events show late British Army Major General Wingate with British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and Colonel Filip Corkan as British troops depart for action. Aircraft in flight as paratroopers drop in the jungles of Burma. Allied troops advance into muddy combat area. Allied tanks and infantry advance into dense jungles. Wounded Japanese soldiers being provided medical aid. Natives gathered in an area. A Buddhist shrine. U.S. Army General Joseph Stilwell smokes a cigarette. Artillery being fired. An Allied tank gets damaged due to a Japanese land mine. Machine guns being fired by the Allied soldiers. An air base being constructed. General Stilwell cuts a cake to celebrate his 61st birthday.
North American experimental unmanned X-10 aircraft sitting on runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California, United States. It displays conventional tricycle landing gear, canard at nose, and twin tail. It is powered by two Westinghouse J-40 turbojet engines, whose intakes are visible on both sides of the fuselage. Aircraft seen during computer-controlled takeoff roll with fairly steep nose attitude. View of it breaking ground, in about 20 degree nose up attitude, with landing gear still extended. Cloud of dust left on ground behind the aircraft. The X-10 in flight, cleaned up, with gear retracted. A chase plane seen below and behind, briefly. The X-10 coming in for landing with landing gear extended. It touches down in nose high attitude, creating dust trail and slowly lowers to have nose gear contact ground, and a drag chute deployed.
U.S. fighter aircraft attacking ground targets in Germany unopposed near the end of World War II. Aerial view of green fields and small villages. Wrecked aircraft scattered in an open field. United States aircraft strafe a German hydroplane in a river. Smoke rises from a burned German air base.
Germany invades Poland. The animated map shows Warsaw and Modlin in Poland. Bomb craters on fields. Damaged building in the city. Smoke rises from bombed areas. A wrecked train and water in a bomb crater. A broken bridge. Destroyed Polish aircraft at an air base in Warsaw.
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