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U.S. Army trains mountain troops. Dr. Volkjalmur Stefabsson, Arctic explorer and geographer, builds a platform inside an igloo he is building in the snowfields of the Rocky Mountains at Camp Hale, Colorado, where Dr. Stefansson instructed U.S. troops in snowcraft. The U.S. soldiers were taught how to provide shelter in barren country where snow is the only medium for building.

Brazilian troops train for service with Allied forces. Bayonet drill with the troops wearing gas masks is the order of the day for this Brazilian coast artillery unit. After declaring war against Germany on August 22, 1942, Brazil's 46,000,000 people entered upon a broad campaign of building ships and planes, mining strategic minerals, patrolling Sout Atlantic waters and training modernly equipped ...

Nederlandse soldaten in training. Prinses Irene Brigade. Bijschrift "We don't know what the joke is all about, but this Wren with a Dutch soldier seems to think it pretty good"

1525c Mountain riflemen training in the Wetterstein mountains. The spying section of an other detachment has even reached a clearing from which an observation is possible.

52013 Nazi storm troopers training center captured by Americans. The Nazi storm trooper's training center at Ordensburg-Vogelsang shows the effects of U.S. artillery bombardment. Ninth Infantry Division men of the First U.S. Army stormed the Nazi training center as they advanced in the great Roerdam district. Overlooking the Urfstausce Lake, the damaged buildings were still useful to the Americans ...

British troops train for the front line in France. A relief party coming up a trench as British troops in France undergo training for the front line.

American hospital train in France. Staff Sergeant W.D. Barnes of Benton, Tennessee, sterilizes utensils in the operating room aboard an American hospital train which is evacuating Allied wounded from the front in France to base hospitals.

1525a Mountain riflemen training in the Wetterstein mountains. If an open sloop or a summit has to serve as watch point for the guard, a snow castle is constructed from which all can be observed more undisturbed.