Training Course, Camp Roberts, California Part 3

Description

Moving range target rides on tracks and through underpass. LSs, signs, "Combat In Cities No 1", "Infiltaration Course 1". Seq: GIs in t-shirts climb over fences, walk on rope lines over a ditch, leap hurdles and bayonet targets, some of which spring form the ground on the bayonet assault course. Seq: GIs crawl fwd on ground and under barbed wire fences as smoke fills the b.g. of the infilitration course. Seq: GIs continue on the bayonets assault course obstacles, moving through a log-walled labyrinth, over a RR trestle, leaping from an incline, crawling under barbed wire, and attacking targets. They charge into a sandbagged tunnel, run and drop on a field as they simulate firing from cover of a fallen tree. Sign: 7th Armd Div insignia and "bayonet Assault Course"; at base of sign, "Learn Today -Live Tomorrow". LSs, Nite, unspectacular tracer fire on infiltration sourse. Seq: Day, Stones form the following. "Permiter Defense". Men charge on field in b.g. as instructors hold class. Insructors use pointers and charts. View of two men at field radio or switchboard. Additional bayonet course ftge as me walk line over ditch, attack various targets. Seq: Bayonet course ftge. GI runs into tunnel and twd camera with fixed bayonet; charge out of tunnel. Seq: GIs advance in deployed formation across field. Colored GI halts to level rifle. Views of men at fixed MGs. Infantry men run.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection