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Weapons of the Infantry Division (1942)

1942 · Short film · 27 min

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(1942) is a declassified U.S. War Department Official Training Film (T.F. 7236) produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the Chief of Infantry. This WWII indoctrination film seeks to make soldiers familiar with the weapons of the infantry division - their trajectory patterns, their makes and models, the sounds of gunfire, in addition to strike patterns. This film features the Springfield, various Browning automatic rifles and machine guns, as well as anti-tank field guns. Infantry soldier aims M1903 Springfield Rifle (0:29). M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle (0:34). M1919 Browning Light Machine Gun (0:36). M1917 Browning Machine Gun (0:40). M2 Browning Machine Gun (0:44). 37 mm Gun M3 in forest (0:46). Barrel of M114 155mm Howitzer sticks out from trees (0:50). Soldier laying behind shrub operates perhaps Johnson 1941 Rifle (0:53). Soldier aims using M1918 Browning (1:02). Montage soldiers using artillery previously shown (1:05). Soldiers load M2 Mortar (1:20). Group of soldiers operate perhaps M1918 155mm Howitzer (1:22). Flat Trajectory Artillery, examples of each set-up in forest scape: rifle, machine gun, 37mm Gun M3, 75mm Gun M2 (1:41). Animation path of projectile fired across hilly landscape (1:54). M2 Mortar (2:04). Curve Trajectory Artillery: animation path of projectile fired across hilly landscape (2:13). Two soldiers at hill base operate 60mm M2 Mortar (2:24). Soldiers prepare 81mm M1 Mortar (2:32). 105mm M101 Howitzer framed by trees (2:35). M114 155mm…

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Running time
27 minutes
Collection
Ephemeral Films

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