A film 'Camouflage in Combat' underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows U.S. soldiers going into a theater in the United States and watching a movie 'Camouflage'. The movie shows a soldier in a forest. He is shot down. A soldier approaches him. He looks skywards. He applies mud on his face to camouflage himself. Soldiers paint each other's faces with GI paint. On 5th June 1944, fully camouflaged Airborne and pathfinder U.S. paratroopers preparing for D-Day invasion jump over Normandy, France. Soldiers with camouflaged helmets. A soldier camouflages his helmet with grass and twigs. A soldier on an island with his helmet camouflaged with grass and twigs found in the area which gives him a perfect blend. U.S. soldiers with camouflaged helmets in France. A camouflaged tank rolls. An officer inspects soldiers standing in a line. Their helmets are camouflaged. A U.S. soldier hiding in shadows in Casino, Italy fires his gun. His ring sparkles. A soldier in a prone position fires. A New Zealand soldier fires while in shadows.
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. U.S. soldiers land on an island in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. The soldiers try to eliminate the black hole made by a tent opening by using a blanket. U.S. 5th Army in Italy. To remove shadows of oil tanks, engineers use steel wool on chicken wire. Soldiers use natural vegetation to camouflage artillery in Anzio, Italy. In Casino, U.S. soldiers use bare trees to hide vehicles. U.S. soldiers in Sicily. A garnished fish net is draped over a tank to hide it. At Anzio beach troops dig a trench to hide a tank and then cover it with hay. Soldiers try to camouflage a jeep.
A film underlines the importance of tactical exploitation and counteraction of shadows and use of nets, underbrush and other camouflage during World War II. The film shows camouflaged aerodromes which are covered with chicken wire and feathers in jungles of the Solomon Islands. A man opens a window of an Italian hot dog stand which was actually a German pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as a farmhouse. A U.S. Army soldier handles mats of a matted house. A soldier looks at windows painted on a pillbox. A German pillbox camouflaged as an entertainment outlet. A dummy building which hides a bridge. A German airfield disguised as a decoy village in Belgium. Buildings in the village. A jeep drives on a road in the village. Men move a sliding wall of a phony building. Helmets and shirts on branches to appear as dummy soldiers. A man near a dummy soldier. Vehicles roll past in France. An artillery piece hidden in thick vegetation. U.S. soldiers watching the film in a theater in the United States.
American troops arrive in the Philippines during World War II. Landing crafts approach a shore in the Philippines. Nearly 4000 American soldiers, who participated in the Italian campaign, get off the landing crafts. The soldiers board a truck. Women workers serve snacks and coffee to the soldiers.
A United States Navy PV-3 helicopter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The PV-3 helicopter with a capacity of 10 passengers on a field. Rotor blades rotate. Men and women board the helicopter. The helicopter lifts off and in flight. Twin rotors of the helicopter rotate while it is in the flight.
A Boeing aircraft plant in Seattle, Washington during World War 2. Exteriors of the Boeing manufacturing plant. Many different camouflaged buildings at the plant. Camouflaged roofs of the plant. Girls on the garden like terrace of the plant. Artificial trees on the roof top fashioned with camouflage materials. Young women sun bathe on the roof top and walk on paths of an area showing different camouflage methods that disguise the plant facilities from possible enemy aircraft overhead. Direction signs in the area show the intersection of "Synthetic Street" and "Burlap Boulevard".
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