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A instructor explains the use of Water cooled Machine Gun and men practice with various guns at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States
The U.S. Army Ranger combat training school at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States during World War 2. Men seated on ground. An instructor explains the use of Water cooled Machine Gun. Soldiers learn to fire various weapons. An instructor explains a gun. Men perform drills with various rifles and machine guns, including Thompson submachine guns. A man loads a gun. Men practice firing guns at target.
Men learn various tactics with knives during the Ranger combat training at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States
The U.S. Army Ranger combat training school, during World War 2, at Fort Shafter in Hawaii, United States. Men crawl on ground with knives and learn to hit enemies in trench. Instructor explains various moves and positions with knife. He explains the moves with another man. Soldiers practice with knives. The instructor targets knife on ground near foot of a man. Men sit on ground. Instructor explains how to snatch knife from an enemy. Men practice the tactic. Instructor shows way to smash enemy with knife on a dummy. Weapons designed by the students being displayed. Visitors seated on hill and some stand.
Soldiers training at the United States Army Ranger school, Fort Shafter, Territory of Hawaii, during World War II
Soldiers go through the assault course with gas masks, under fire, at the U.S. Army Ranger Combat Training School in Fort Shafter, Hawaii, during World War 2. Opening scene shows several trainees in gas masks carrying rifles with fixed bayonets, advancing through rough terrain in which tear gas fumes are seen. Closeup of one soldier, wearing steel helmet and mask, but otherwise stripped to the waist, as he bayonets a stuffed dummy target on the course. He uses his bayonet on another dummy that drops down on him as he scrambles out of a tunnel. Views of other soldiers passing through the same portion of the training course. As they leave the tunnel, they encounter more gas that billows across their path. Change of scene shows the soldiers climbing over obstacles placed in their path. Closeups of some trainees scrambling over obstacles. Some soldiers are seen crawling as camera pans to sniper firing from a palm tree. Next, they must traverse another obstacle and engage two more dummies with their bayonets, next to barbed wire fence. As they pass a steep hill, an explosion occurs raising smoke and causing rocks and dirt to fall down towards them. Next, they must make their way along a ravine lined with barbed wire. One fires his rifle. Closeups of several trainees climbing out of a water filled ravine and crossing a stream on makeshift footholds. Soldiers must run on a log to cross a creek, as explosive charges explode around them. They emerge from a tunnel and charge up a steep dirt hill to encounter another dummy to bayonet. Film ends displaying a sign that exhorts soldiers to embrace killing and reminding them survival requires that they KILL or be KILLED. It is signed by Lieutenant General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It ends: "WE are not going to be killed!"
A B-26 Marauder taxis and takes off in Maryland, United States during its fist trail.
The trial of U.S. Army Air Force Martin B-26 Marauder bomber in Maryland, United States during World War II. A B-26 Martin bomber parked in front of a hangar. A small group of civilians walk past the nose of the B-26 bomber in front of the hangar. Front view of the B-26. Trees in the background. A pilot in the bombardier's compartment in the nose of the B-26. The tail view of the B-26. The left engine of the B-26 starts. It taxis away from the hangar. The B-26 takes off and is in flight.
Testing of a new shaft driven motorcycle at the Holabird Quartermaster Motor Base in Maryland, United States.
A film titled 'shaft driven motorcycle' depicts features of a new shaft motorcycle. A U.S. soldier takes a test drive at the Holabird Quartermaster Motor Base. The new motorcycle moves on a road. The features of the motorcycle are a drive shaft, a foot accelerator and four forward gears. (World War II period).
Process for decontamination of armored vehicles in Maryland, United States (WW2)
A film titled 'Decontamination on Armored Vehicles' shows how to test for the presence of a war gas on an armored vehicle and then shows several decontamination procedures. An aircraft in flight sprays a war gas in World War II. A tank moves on a field. U.S. soldiers carry gas in a tank and attach it to the wing of the aircraft. The aircraft taxis and takes off. The aircraft sprays war gas over an armored vehicle. The tank covered with the war gas. A U.S. soldier wearing a gas mask puts a mustard chemical in a container and sprays it on specific parts of the tank. A soldier makes a blue mark on the mustard surface. A soldier puts a special chemical through a syringe. A soldier works on the syringe. Two soldiers wearing gas masks. A soldier stands on the tank. The soldier puts a vacuum bottle in the tank and stands holding the vacuum bottle. A soldier sprays DAMC, a non corrosive decontamination agent, on the tank. The tank moves. After two hours, a soldier wearing a gas mask sprays DAMC on the tank. Another soldier sprays the mustard chemical. The tank moves over a mud area. Mud stuck on the wheels is taken as a sample for a test. The soldiers on the tank spray chlorinated lime on the mud. The chlorinated lime in water. The tank moves into water to remove the mud. A soldier removes the mud from the tank. Several decontamination procedures being used. A soldier sprays hot steam all over the tank. Another soldier sprays DAMC . A soldier records the test result.
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