NAI: 24562
111-FB-181
1945
Compares the Thompson and M3 submachine guns with the .34 and .42 caliber German automatic pistols (9mm). Studies differences in the construction of the weapons and compares their ammunition. The pieces are test-fired, free style and mounted, for accuracy. Demonstrates the superior performance by U.S. weapons, pointing out that the German guns sacrifice speed of fire for accuracy.
MH-10379-A
"Tactics and techniques employed by wespac fmf units"
This 1967 unclassified training film designated for "official use only" instructs Marines on how to best identify and avoid Viet Cong mines and booby traps. Footage includes demonstrations of antipersonnel and anti-vehicle mine detonations, as well as close up depiction of sharpened bamboo man traps, bullet traps, repurposed US explosive device mines, fish line trip-wired grenade mines, noisemakers, buried mortar shells and other electronically or pressure detonated mines and booby traps. Narration urges Marines to stay alert and aware of these dangers by looking for signs of disturbance in the earth, or for signs left for neutral Vietnamese civilians. Narration also urges Marines to leave demolition of mines to trained engineers and demolition. The training film also details where mines and booby traps are most likely to be found: communication routes, foot paths, helicopter landing sites, rice paddy dikes, high grass, arid un-farmable land or foot bridges.
*"There is only one answer to fear - knowledge"*
Land and Live in the Jungle 111-TF-3347
NAI: 5686920
Creator: War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (8/1/1866 - 9/18/1947)
1944
Film Reel 16mm
This film dramatizes the survival of the crew of a downed military aircraft in the jungle and features Van Heflin as Lieutenant Lynn Harrison.