African American soldiers guard chickens which feed US troops stationed in WWII England

The War Department presents ""The Negro Soldier"" Part 3 Military officer interviews Black man asks about what machines he knows how to operate. - ECU shots of a white and also a Black boot camp drill instructor as they bark commands at recruits. More of these shots are inserted throughout the boot camp scenes. - Chaplain makes speech to recruits from podium - Officer lectures recruits from podium on how to properly salute. - Black recruit is fitted for a pair of shoes or boots. - Recruits most of them Black, file into room where they strip down to their underclothes and try on their new uniforms while officer instructs them at microphone. - Black soldiers practice making a bed in barracks together - New Black soldiers in marching drill on snow-covered ground, they make many mistakes, funny column of Black soldiers in full combat uniforms marching down trail, they sit down and take a rest. - Military hospital ward and dental clinic, the patients are all black soldiers. - Black recruits soldiers shoot target practice on firing range. - Black woman reading aloud (not sync) from book, zooms to the book entitled An Anthology of American Negro Literature. - Black WAC WAAC women in marching drill on military base, VS a convoy of jeeps carrying black WAC WAAC women. - Black USO dance - WWII boot camp training: Black recruit soldiers engage in group calisthenics - WWII boot camp combat training: Black soldiers on obstacle course, they bayonet enemy dummies and advance over rugged terrain. - Black officers attending military schools: graduating black officer receives diploma in graduation ceremony, VS, including West Point - Black ROTC soldiers march in review.Tuskegee airmen, poor shots: black pilots are decorated with their wings in medal ceremony black pilots in full flight gear walk across tarmac CU black pilot in cockpit, in flight.

Vietnam War - United States troops - white and black soldiers - soldiers move through forest - soldiers carry out wounded on stretcher

BLACK SOLDIER AND WHITE SOLDIER SIT SIDE BY SIDE ON BENCH. WHITE SOLDIER LAUGHS, KNEE SLAPPING LAUGH. WHITE SOLDIER HOLDS HIS ARM IN SLING. WWI AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER, BLACK SOLDIER SITS WITH HIM. BLACK GI.

Over half of the film is taken up with views of Victoria Falls, followed by the Great Zimbabwe Ruins. The last third shows the motorcade of the State Visit of Princess Elizabeth to Kenya prior to her father's death, dating this to February 1952. Close up of lioness followed by extended shot of waterfalls [Victoria Falls]. 02:16 Statue of explorer Dr Livingstone. Long panning shots of Falls continue. 03:38 Group of spectators become visible, filming of aspects of Fall, and a prismatic rainbow. 06:29 The river and a gorge, with high iron bridge spanning above. 07:38 Steam train is filmed crossing the bridge. 08:43 Thatched lodge, with Union Jack flag on pole outside. Group of Indians stroll before remains of great brick structure [ie Great Zimbabwe - ruins of the ancient city of Zimbabwe built in 12th-15th century], which include conical towers and massive walls with decorative latticework topping. Occasional shots of woman in sari and man with straw hat. 11:31 A street (in Nairobi) lined with honour guard of soldiers and spectators, Union Jack flags, bunting. The anticipation of an important motorcade, a child is held up in a group near the camera, all of whom appear to be Indian. Black car and motorcycle outriders followed by open topped car. This is the first stage of the State Visit to Kenya by Princess Elizabeth just before her father King George VI died. 13:58 Banner across road with lettering 'WELCOME - Loyalty to the King and Country is our motto' and 'Muslim Community Welcomes their Royal Highnesses'. The Muslim flag flies above this. Another sign outside flag-decked building with clock tower 'WELCOMES OUR ROYAL VISITORS'. Further views of broad festive streets with cars, bicycles, pedestrians, floral decorations. Creator: Ivan Haslam

THE HOME FRONT: MISC. WAR FOOTAGE

Part of issue TAKE THAT. <br/> <br/>South Africa. <br/> <br/>Various shots of white instructor demonstrating on black soldier different methods of unarmed combat. Various shots of black soldiers demonstrating how these methods can be used in exercise: one unarmed black soldier fights and overcomes several armed black soldiers pretending to guard a building. C/U of the white instructor laughing. Various C/U of the black soldiers laughing.

Spanish Flu ward, France. This ward was part of US Army Camp Hospital 45 in Aix-les-Bains, France. This ward dealt with soldiers infected with influenza, or flu. During and after the First World War there was a global influenza pandemic, known as the Spanish Flu. A fifth of the world's population was infected and between 20 and 50 million people died. Such pandemics occur when a new infectious virus appears for which the human population has no immunity. This can happen when there is a major change in the surface proteins of an existing virus.

10/28/2024

Vintage footage- Black WWII soldier in uniform sings in church, preacher gives sermon, Joe Lewis fights, Black soldiers go through training excercises, close ups of church goers listening to sermon, montage-stills and reinactments of black soldiers throughout American history, various famous black men and women, battle scenes-WWII

00:00:00:00 [Black berets top Army ensemble]-- Pentagon, Arlington, VA 09:36:50 09:37:05 soldier alone wearing black beret 09:37:09 09:37:14 another soldier wearing beret salutes 09:37:17 09:37:27 CU ...

Daughter is hugging her mother after she returned from service.

U.S. Army soldiers prepare to destroy ammunitions in the United States. A soldier puts some ammunition on the ground. One soldier stands while another spreads black powder on the ground. Three soldiers standing near a barrack move inside. The ammunition burns away. A soldier attaches a wire to the spread black powder. Soldiers then move away and the black powder burns with huge flames. Location: United States USA. Date: 1959.

Paratroopers stage and board UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and Air Assault into objective area. Searching houses, AH-64 Apache helicopters fire Hellfire missiles into terrorist safe houses. Soldiers return to Forward Operating Base Kalsu.

CS VO DAVE MARASH REGARDING BLACK SOLDIERS IN THE US MILITARY (WITH SPORADIC BREAKUP AND REFEEDS). 19:40:26:22 CLIPS OF HISTORICAL MATERIAL SHOWING BLACK SOLDIERS THROUGHOUT US HISTORY. CLIPS OF BLACK SOLDIERS WHO SERVED IN THE PERSIAN GULF WAR RETURNING HOME. CLIPS OF POOR BLACKS IN BAD NEIGHBORHOODS, BLACKS INVOLVED IN VIOLENT CRIME AND BLACKS ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE. SU PETER JENNINGS. VARIOUS INTERVIEWS. SHOTS OF A VIETNAM WAR STATUE WITH A BLACK SOLDIER REPRESENTED ALONGSIDE WHITE SOLDIERS. SU MARASH. 19:46:59:29 BREAKUP. CI: HUMANKIND: BLACKS. MILITARY: OPERATIONS, SAUDI ARABIA.

Two soldiers load cargo onto a truck, newspaper headlines indicate the U.S. is at war with Japan, black soldiers unlods cargo onto a conveyor belt.

Cut to interior of canteen, soldier at wicket, Black Watch men arriving in groups, swilling Coca Cola conspicuously.

Portrait of a male soldier at a gymnasium

This black-and-white picture from 1963 is part of the American documentary television program “The Big Picture”, which aired from 1951 to 1964. This episode features the activities and training of local scouts in the Alaska National Guard near the Arctic Circle, with the goal of preventing foreign invasion and the spread of communism. The Big Picture series contains over 800 episodes produced by the United States Army Signal Corps Army Pictorial Service. <p>(Note: Alaskan Natives are referred to as Eskimos in this film. However, it is now considered unacceptable by most natives, mainly because it is a colonial name imposed by non-Indigenous people.)<p><p>Two soldiers from the Korean War era (00:07). Soldiers in Germany driving an M41 Walker Bulldog tank (00:13). Cross-country skiing in Alaska (00:16). Soldier arriving on shore in Puerto Rico (00:20). An illustrated globe (00:23). “The Big Picture” title banner (00:36). US Army Sergeant Stuart Queen talks about the US Military mission on the most northern frontier in Alaska popularly called Seward’s Folly (00:46). Birds-eye-view of the landscapes of the Island of Nunivak in Alaska (01:44). Views of the Army’s camps at Nunivak Island (01:49). Schoolchildren on Nunivak Island (02:06). The sign of a native store (02:30). A native Alaskan family (02:33). Seals (02:36). Reindeer (02:55). Reindeer skin and antlers (03:05). A traditional arctic kayak (03:09). A traditional arctic dog sled and the Alaskan huskies used to pull the sled (03:16). Walruses caught by local hunters (03:39). One hunter sits on a walrus and sharpens his knife (03:49). Scenes from local life on the Nunivak Island, including kayaking, chopping wood, making clothes, knitting, and ivory carving (04:03). Masks used to repel evil spirits in Alaskan folklore (05:39). Volunteer scouts meet at the Alaska National Guard (06:00). The volunteers attend classes with US Army instructions (06:13). A standard army drill (06:52). Volunteers prepare their dog sleds (07:28), and dress in all white wind-suits to camouflage themselves in snow as part of another training drill (07:43). They advance over the drifts and shoot their rifles for combat training (08:29). Locals fish through holes in the frozen sea-surface (09:07). Ice blocks are piled to be melted for the water supply (09:34). A ski-plane followed by volunteers riding dog sleds (09:41). The cargo is unloaded from the ski-plane after landing (09:50). A sign for the ‘Kotzebue Alaska Airport’ (10:08). A landed aircraft, likely a C-130 Hercules (10:12). The volunteer scouts board the plane (10:19). Views of Camp Denali at Fort Richardson Alaska (10:34). The volunteers are seated together for their briefing (10:48). A sign for the camp’s Rifle Range (10:56). The volunteers practice rifle-shooting (11:00). An outdoor class where the volunteers are dressed in their white wind-suits (11:08). Teams practice scout-strategies through training drills (11:25). The volunteers stand in line waiting to be served food (11:53). The scouts are marching (12:05). Brigadier general of the Alaskan Command praising the scouts for completing their Denali Camp training (12:29). A summer training session at a US military camp on Saint Paul Island (12:41). The scouts are marching (13:20) and digging trenches, foxholes, and gun emplacements (13:32). They eat lunch (13:44), practice map-reading (13:50), embark on a practice trek (14:16), and perform drills (14:35). The scouts return to the camp (15:03). The Flag of the United States (15:27). Possibly a type C4-class cargo ship (15:31). “The End” written on screen (15:34). <p><p>We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference."<p><p>This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com

Press tour following Trinity nuclear test, July 1945. Footage from the press tour following the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb in the desert near Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, USA, at 05:29 local time on 16 July 1945. The test detonation was part of the Manhattan Project carried out by the USA during World War II. The test, codenamed 'Trinity', used plutonium, and had an explosive power equivalent to 21,000 tons of TNT. The flash from the explosion could be seen 640 kilometres away, and the shock wave was felt 80 kilometres away. The mushroom cloud reached a height of 12 kilometres. This test was followed later that year by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

"The Negro Soldier"" Part 4 :war time shots in snow, desert, good weather - featuring primarily Black soldiers; Soldiers building a pontoon bridge; man at work atop a telephone pole; Black soldiers manning their anti-aircraft gun emplacement.; Combat training maneuvers: soldiers crawl across ground amid gunfire soldiers charge across stream and climb up cliff. VS war time shots from all war fronts (Europe, Africa, Pacific). Great shots of the front lines of WWII; WWII combat dramatization: Black soldier shoots anti-aircraft machine gun at Japanese Zero fighter plane, VS CU Japanese pilot - the fighter plane is hit and crashes. Poor shots; Montage of soldiers marching, most of them black, some are parade marches. - CU liberty bell ringing w V for Victory symbol.