Big Picture: Army Technical Schools in Europe

Year Published: 1952-10-13

Creator: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: 16mm/video file

Description: National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569552 / Local Identifier 111-TV-282 Big Picture: Army Technical Schools in Europe DVD copied by Katie Filbert. Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984). To train the specialists it needs, the United States Army maintains a number of service schools in the European Command. Here, soldiers are learning everything from accounting to the care and training of war-dogs. Training in firefighting methods is taught by the Engineer School in the Bavarian Town of Murnau. Cameras cover activities at the Intelligence and Military Police School in the lovely Town of Oberammergau. This has become one of the world's finest police academies. Coverage is given the NCO Academy in Munich. The schedule is intensive and rugged. Traveling to the alpine town of Fuessen, THE BIG PICTURE camera lens aims at the Army's largest overseas Ordnance School, and finally at the Quartermaster School, where war-dogs are recruited and trained from the very best of European dogdom to serve with the American Army's famous artillery.