1953 U.S. ARMY FOURTH ARMY CHEMICAL DEFENSE SCHOOL FLAMETHROWER & BAZOOKA DEMONSTRATION 48974

Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This color, silent movie footage features members of the Fourth Army conducting weapons training and testing. This was shot in 1953 in and around Camp Bullis, Texas, and the Fourth Army Chemical Defense School. Opening: Camera slate - 4th Army Signal Corps, March 1953 (:11). Servicemen exit a building and walk by a sign that reads: Fourth Army Chemical Defense School (:23). A soldier wires a detonator and turns the detonator; colored smoke emits from a marker canister (:46). Smoke bombs send smoke out as servicemen watch from bleacher seats (1:38). Colored smoke plumes (2:27). Men in the bleachers watch a table that contains several small smoke bombs that emit smoke and sparks (3:51). A man lights a wick to a canister and leaves it on the ground, it shoots off sparks and smoke (4:18). A soldier demonstrates a flamethrower, he take