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WWII - USA Training, Communications; Hap Arnold; Drilling in Iceland; RAF Raid; PT Boats; Draftees

Reel Number: 250045-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: Iceland,USA

Location: DC,Fort Monmouth,New Jersey,Washington

TC Begins: 16:47:43

TC Ends: 16:56:29

Duration: 00:08:46

WWII - USA Training, Communications; Hap Arnold; Drilling in Iceland; RAF Raid; PT Boats; Draftees LS Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey building. Interior w/ large class of soldiers w/ headphones training at telegraph keys as three instructors walk around; men w/ headsets at typewriters. Others at blackboard. 16:47:58 Men practice climbing telephone poles in warehouse, others work on telephone equipment. LS men in vests at communications equipment / switchboards / teletype machines. Radio set w/ sign: WTJ Hawaii, man checks ticker-tape. 16:48:50 Man dumping basket of ticker-tape. 16:49:00 CU, 3-star General Hap Arnold, MOS speaking / reading to camera. At map w/ others USAAF officers. CU pointing at unid. peninsula. MCUs. 16:49:52 Soldiers parading in Iceland on large field; MCUs. General Marshall & others watching, quonset huts behind; MCU Four-star Gen. Marshall. Troops marching in WWI doughboy helmets. March along water-filled muddy dirt road in rain. MCU boots thru deep mud. 16:52:19 Troops marching in front of building w/ people watching from doorway & windows, along road, on large field. 16:53:58 Air to air, RAF twin-engine planes low over water w/ land behind in daylight raid; view of passing water. Planes over land & low buildings. POV low over forest & farmland; towards large half-dozen story buildings, explosions & smoke from higher elevation. 16:55:45 Motor torpedo boat / PT boat at speed alongside camera boat. Several views. 16:56:21 USA WW1 / WWI draftees getting uniforms, outdoors from table. WW2 Preparations; Signal Corps Training; ca 1942;

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