# Position Firing

National Archives Identifier: 5687780

Local Identifier: 111-TF-3366 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5687780

Creator(s): War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (8/1/1866 - 9/18/1947)

From: Series: Training Films, ca. 1930 - ca. 1945

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

This item was produced or created:1944

Scope & Content: This animated comic film presents side gunner Trigger Joe (voiced by Mel Blanc) as he was trained to calculate approach arcs, speed, and the distance of enemy aircraft. Produced by the First Motion Picture Unit during World War II.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM) National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540

Email: mopix@nara.gov

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 1944
- Runtime: 14 min
- By: US National Archives
- Genres: Animation, War
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Position_Firing.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: US National Archives
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/62768041?play=1)