LANDING MANEUVERS Part 1

Description

Summary: VS, Soldiers run from landing craft up beach toward woods. CU, Soldiers crouched in landing craft under way. (LCP) LS, Transport ship at anchor, landing craft passes. CU, landing craft hits beach, soldiers run off (near cloth signal panel). Sequence: 75mm pack howitzer carriage is lifted from hold of ship by crane. CUs, soldiers on beach advance, fall, simulate firing rifles. Sequence, soldiers disembark from transport to small landing craft. Several shots, LCPs under way. Two officers look through binoculars. TRAINING MEN.: Sequence, soldiers go through bayonet drill, charge dummies. MS, instructor shows men how to bayonet dummy. Sequence, on range, men fire Springfield rifles from hip, fire from prone position. CU, soldier fires Springfield Rifle.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities