P-38s of the USAAF 14th Fighter Group hold short of the runway at Telergma airfield in Algeria, to wait for a dozen others that are landing in succession. The arriving aircraft taxi
Women greet soldiers. A soldier greets his two daughters and wife. He lifts his girls up and kisses his wife. The scene is an Army camp with tents behind the soldier and his family. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Soldiers of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War 1. Soldiers during calisthenics physical training session. Large lines of of soldiers in formation warm up and perform various exercises. Next scene shows soldiers practicing a running ascent of an elevated platform and then a leap off to a lower level, with bayonets fixed, as they bayonet sandbags, all simulating a charge into an enemy trench. The soldiers arranged into formation for review by officers. Officers of the troops sit on horseback at the front of the lines. View of many trucks and jeeps for transporting soldiers and supplies. Soldiers attend an instructional demonstration of automobile repair.
Organization of the United States Army. Soldiers given training about firing and operating anti-aircraft guns at Camp Edwards in western Cape Cod, Massachusetts, during World War II. Trainee soldiers fire on target balloons. Amphibious troops trained. Tanks ride rough mountainous terrain, cross small rivers. Tank destroyer training, a dummy tank destroyed.
A Nazi fighter plane at an airfield in Germany during World War II. A fighter pilot enters the plane. The plane takes off.
German propaganda film during World War 2, before invasion of Poland, entitled 'Feuertaufe' meaning baptism by fire. A polish soldier on horseback sounds a bugle. What appears to be a newspaper, shows image of Polish Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz; artillery; and warplanes; and comments about Polish military resistance. Narrator refers to Poland, and Britain at war with Germany. A parade of Polish cavalry units, airplanes, armored units and tanks before Polish military leader Edward Smigly-Rydz. A map illustrates Poland's presumed expansionist policies, including the conquest of Slovak Republic; the German protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; and threatening Germany, itself. Referring to Danzig Narrator says: "But Danzig is German." Large crowd in Danzig listen to Nazi Gaulieter Albert Forster. German- Danzig troops patrol and construct razor wire obstacles. German flag and symbols on buildings in Danzig. German troops seen in Poland. Views of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein, underway and entering the harbor at Danzig as crowd on docks cheers. A row of German JU-87 Stuka dive bombers parked on a field. Other German warplanes, including float planes, and twin engine bombers.
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