A training film on the wartime and peacetime activities of the U.S. Signal Corps. U.S. Signal Corps recruits disembark on a beach from landing barges during World War 2. The soldiers set up communications equipment and operate a EE-8 field telephone, and morse code keyer to transmit range observations. U.S. Navy sailor sends signal lamp blinker signals from a U.S. Navy ship offshore. The signal corps soldiers lay telephone wires by aircraft and truck. The telegraph and telephone poles are erected. The Chief Signal Officer seated at his desk. Exterior view of the Pentagon, and then interior views inside the Pentagon at the Pentagon signal center. Soldiers working in the signal center of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Tape machines dispense paper tapes with encoded communications. Sign "Traffic Control Army Command and Administration System" written on a board in the center. The transmission system of the message.
Soldiers of the U.S. Signal Corps in the European Theater during World War II. Signal Corps cameramen of Army Pictorial Service photograph and film an amphibious landing. The soldiers wade ashore. U.S. soldiers advance on a battlefield, firing rifles. Camera man present. Street fighting on the war front. The wall of a building leans and crashes to the ground as a U.S. Army camera man captures moving image footage on camera. U.S. soldier rips a Nazi German eagle symbol from a building and it crashes to the street. A U.S. Army Air Corps B-17 aircraft in flight , seen from beside and close up from below and beside. View of exterior of Signal Corps Photographic Center building in New York. Men working inside the Signal Corps Photographic Center in the United States. Soldiers at film cutting machines at work, and view of film canisters in storage. The production of films in the center including a segment from "Why We Fight" and one from "The Fighting Men" pictures. Several war related films, and training and orientation films are produced. The foreign version of the films are also made so that they can be seen by other countries. Scene of an American soldier speaking Japanese in a U.S. military created film. Bing Crosby singing "Accentuate the Positive" during a filmed segment for the American G.I. audience at a USO show. Elevated view of war material and equipment stacked in a massive warehouse building, with Signal Corps workers moving about in the building. Men working and placing more equipment in the building. 'MacArthur's Headquarters' written on a wooden shipping crate. Boxes of war materiel being loaded into trucks, railroad train cars, and ships for transport to the war front in World War 2. Views of various kinds of Signal Corps communication equipment, radios, transmitters, cameras, vacuum tubes and other electronic equipment that was innovated during World War II. A moisture-proof switchboard is tested in the field. A U.S. Army Signal Corps soldier holding a phone during the switchboard testing.
The United States 41st Tank Battalion in Bercheux, Belgium during World War II. A snow covered field. A soldier mixes water and calcimine. A soldier aboard a tank moves on the field. Soldiers whitewashing the tank.
The United States 41st Tank Battalion in Bercheux, Belgium during World War II. A snow covered field. Soldiers aboard a tank moving on the field. The soldiers come out of the tank. Soldiers arrive with a bucket of calcimine mixture near the tank. The soldiers whitewash the tank.
Nazi prisoners captured in Ardennes in Luxembourg during World War II. A large group of German prisoners in a snowy field. Two medics standing with the soldiers and prisoners with Red Cross emblem. U.S. soldiers inspect packs and personal belongings of the prisoners. The U.S. soldiers question a German paratrooper. The prisoner opens his coat and displays decorations on the sweater. The prisoners loaded into trucks. Colonel Richard G Stilwell watching the prisoners.
U.S. infantrymen marching to Bavigne in Luxembourg during World War II. The infantrymen of the 358th Regiment, 90th Division marching along a highway. A jeep passing on the road. Houses in the area.
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