U.S. Army IX Corps soldiers during a simulated attack on 03 July 1943. Soldiers lie in rutted desert terrain behind smoke screen and barbed wired barricades. 0630: Men and equipment moving towards action. Half track tanks, trucks and troops proceeding through valley. Soldier sitting on ground and shaving. (World War II period).
Film begins with camera panning over the desert at the U.S. Army IX Corps camp in California during World War 2. Moving vehicles spew smoke, forming a thin smoke screen across the background. Military vehicles of various kinds are maneuvering over the site. Two M3 Lee tanks raise dust as they move toward the camera. Closeup of one with gunners in the main and the sponson turrets of the tank. Various military vehicles, including half M3 half track armored personnel carriers, jeeps and trucks move along a dirt road. An M3 lee tank moves down from an upper road to a lower one, creating dust clouds as it does. It passes between some foot soldiers and an M3 armored personnel carrier (M3). Lots of dust is raised by the tank.
Tanks and troops moves across the desert at U.S. Army IX Corps camp in California during World War II. A smoke generator mounted on a truck throws a heavy smoke screen. Billows of smoke rise up.
U.S. soldiers train for decontamination at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. A man in a chemical laboratory. Two soldiers spreading a protective ointment in their hands. A soldier decontaminating a tank. A soldier wearing a mask spraying a protective liquid on a gun. A soldier spreading the protective ointment on his helmet. Many soldiers in front of U.S. Sherman tanks decontaminating cloth covers. Soldiers sitting on a tank cover it with a decontaminated cloth. Two soldiers issue impregnated clothing to a soldier. A soldier covers himself with a protective cellophane cover. A soldier decontaminating a half track using Decon filled with DAMC. Soldiers filling a truck with chloride of lime containers. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers demonstrate chemical warfare and decontamination at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. An aircraft generates a heavy smoke screen . Another aircraft sprays the smoked area with a chemical. Soldiers on a half track put on cellophane cover and masks. They then attack the aircraft. The cellophane and the combat vehicles are heavily contaminated by the chemical. The soldiers remove the cellophane cover and throw them out. Soldiers take on decontamination procedures. (World War II period).
U.S. soldiers demonstrate decontamination of a combat tank at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland. A tank moves on. Two soldiers decontaminate the vehicle using a spray. One soldier stands on the tank and decontaminates it. Under carriages heavily encrusted with mud. Two soldiers spreading lime on the ground. A tanker passes through the lime mud slurry. Two soldiers spraying a tank with high pressure water to remove mud from the under carriages. Now they spray the tanks with lime. A water tanker arrives. An aircraft passes over at a low height. A heavy smoke screen in the background. Soldiers wearing cellophane cover. (World War II period).
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