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Pre-WWII - 1941, Training w/ explosives & camouflage

Reel Number: H1917-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL and SD

Year / Date: 1941,1940s

Country: USA

Location: California,Fort Ord

TC Begins: 01:29:12

TC Ends: 01:39:18

Duration: 00:10:06

Pre-WWII - 1941, Training w/ explosives & camouflage Cavalry unit, men leading mules across small stream, thru dry country w/ ammunition & artillery equipment broken down & carried on pack animals. 01:30:06 Assembling light artillery. 01:30:25 Men digging & building retaining wall of logs & dirt for stream. Planting land mines & covering. CUs Place land mines on hillside at end of dam. 01:31:35 Jeep across hillside & mine explodes. Machine guns fired from camouflaged position on hillside as jeep circles obstruction & detonates mines. Infantry unit up hillside, plants TNT explosives & blow up dam. 01:33:04 LS of dam exploding w/ much dust. 01:33:16 CU of officer SOF to camera: re tactics being devised to stop aerial & tank attack etc. thru camouflage. 01:33:51 Soldier in dirt bank under camouflage of dry grass, leaps out. Troops shown the placing camouflage; shots of soldiers w/ bayonets on rifles climbing out. Firing rifle from camouflaged position. Truck w/ soldiers drives over camouflaged position & soldier out & throws grenade. 01:35:15 Several soldiers out of camouflaged fox holes. One take w/ sound. 01:35:5? Men out & set up machine gun & fire; SOF. 01:36:33 Men with camouflage netting covering themselves & run off. LS of trees, men get up at begin firing rifles, whistle blows & they drop to ground. Repeat w/ yelling. Several takes, charging past camera. Vehicles w/ soldiers arrive & fired upon by camouflaged men. Officers watch from camouflaged jeep. 1940s; Training Film; Pre-WW2; NOTE: Early WW2 helmets - M1917a1.

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