WWII U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES RECRUITING FILMS BASIC TRAINING & OFFICER’S CANDIDATE SCHOOL OCS 24964

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Here are two WWII U.S. Army Air Forces recruiting films. The first “Survival of the Fittest“ is about how physical training is important for survival in combat. This is copyrighted 1944. The second, “Sustineo Atlas“ is about the elite the Officers Candidate School. It dates to 1943. Opening titles: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (:06-:31). An U.S. Army Air Force officer who survived for weeks in the jungle receives a medal. Another officer receives a medal. He is seen walking through high snow. Men stand at attention in front of a superior officer. Airmen float in life rafts (:32-1:49). Newspaper stories on heroic airmen. The men and women who make up the USAAF including WASPS or ferry pilots (2:05). Injured crewman in B-17. Air raid siren goes off and P-40 pilots scramble. P-40s in a dogfight against German airplanes. A plane is shot down into the ocean. The pilot man