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The Black Soldier - Reel 4
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keywords: African-Americans, Black History, WWII, Boot Camp, Military Training, Officer Training, West Point, Tuskegee Airmen
Synopsis: African-American contributions in WWII, Black recruits and the trials of Boot Camp, Tuskegee Airmen and Tank Warfare Training....(read more)
- Date: 1944
- Duration: 00:05:42
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: U.S.
The Black Soldier: Reel-4
New U.S. Army recruits trained to charge with fixed bayonet in "boot camp". Army recruits at large outdoor church services. Group of Black servicemen with heads bowed in prayer. Pastor speaks to recruits and gives encouragement to become an Army officer. Scenes of graduation after Officer Training at West Point. Shows Black pilots earning their wings as pilots at Tuskegee Flight School. Black pilots with parachutes, line of U.S. fighter planes, fighter planes take-off. Close-up of Black pilot in cockpit of fighter plane in flight.
Soldiers train in winter conditions, artillery firing, in turrets of tanks. Black soldiers trained in tank warfare, as engineers building bridges, as a Quarter Master moving troops, in communications, in the horseback Calvary, infantry in a half-track military vehicle, manning anti-aircraft gun. Infantry recruits crawling along ground under machine gun live fire, climbing a "cargo net".
- Related Titles:
- The Black Soldier ** full title, 5-reels **
- Wings For This Man: Tuskegee Airmen - Training To Combat
- Teamwork: Black And White Soldiers United
- Black Contribution - Origins
- Black Contribution - Literature And Theater
- African-American Education - Colleges During Wartime
- African-American Education - Looking Toward The Horizon
- African-Americans: We Will Work Again
