I’ve always had a keen fascination with World War II due to the fact that I had relatives fighting on both sides: American and German. My uncle was a combat medic who had his leg blown off during the Battle of the Bulge and my Grandfather’s brother flew in the Luftwaffe. As part of my interest, one of my hobbies is collecting period military firearms. The US Army did a series of training films on the “rifle that won the war” the M1 Garand. I collected the videos available and worked on enhancing the video and audio quality as best I can. Here’s the YouTube playlist where you can watch them all:

You must be sober and vigilant in order that the body may become fit but thereby the devil is not yet vanquished; more than the outward training of the body against sin is needed. The real sword is this, that you are strong and firm in the faith. If with your heart you take hold of the Word of God and cling to it in faith, the devil cannot win, but must flee. If you can say: ‘This my God hath said; on this I take my stand,’ you will see that he slinks away, and with him will depart the sluggishness, the evil desires, anger, miserliness, melancholy, and doubt. But the devil is sly; he will not have you put your trust in the Word and reaches out to wrest it out of your hand; if he can make you lazy, so that your body becomes unfit and filled with knavish desires, he will soon wrest the sword out of your hand. He thus had his way with Eve; she had God’s Word, and if she had clung to it, she would not have fallen. But when the devil saw that she held the Word so loosely, he tore it out of her heart, so that she let go of it; and thus he had won. (2 Cor. 11:3; Gen. 3:4, 13.) Thus St. Peter has sufficiently instructed us how we are to fight the devil. Running to and fro will not do, nor any work that you might perform; what is needed is that you cling to the Word by faith. When he comes and would drive you into despondency because of your sin, just take hold of the Word of God which promises forgiveness of sins and take that to heart, then he will soon have to leave off. (St. L. IX:1108, on 1 Pet. 5:9.)