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Go For Broke

Reel Number: 221617-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1943

Country: USA

Location: Camp Shelby,Mississippi

TC Begins: 20:47:16

TC Ends: 20:58:47

Duration: 00:11:31

Go For Broke 100th Battalion; 442nd Division. 20:47:38 CU marching feet, MS Japanese-American troops marching on parade ground, Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Calisthenic exercises. MCU sentry by sign: Headquarters Company 442nd Infantry Combat. Troops in undershirts falling in for drilling. 20:48:19 Marching, drilling w/ rifles. Bayonet drill; throwing hand grenades; gas mask drill. Infantry w/ 37mm artillery. Machine gun training. Field training in helmet camouflage. Trucks of troops along dirt road. Putting up camouflage netting; anti-aircraft practice; digging in 37mm & camouflaging. 50 cal. machine gun crew placing. 20:51:45 Troops practice w/ DUKWs into water; out of water; jeeps driving in woods. Troops given orders, run to set up pontoon river bridge crossing w/ ropes, sections & troops cross on run w/ rifles. 20:54:15 Placing charges on trees to fall them w/ tnt by wire & detonator. Placing dynamite to blow up road, setting off charge & inspect crater. Trench digging. 20:55:36 Running obstacle course, crawling, jumping, climbing. Marching w/ barracks in background. 20:56:51 Sunday church service w/ buglers, various religions. Marching on parade grounds. the end. WWII Training; Ethnic; 1943; WW2; NOTE: sound is compressed / muted. Grainy picture.

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