...Actually, that is very short footage of an earlier short "Declaration of Independence" in which Litel is Thomas Jefferson, NOT John Hancock, but it is hard to tell from the intro. This was made before the US entered WWII, but after everybody knew we were going to have to get in, it was just a matter of time. So little shorts like these were made to encourage men to enlist, to encourage patriotism, etc., so that when the war did come the army would not be swarming with newbies. It's actually pretty interesting from a historical perspective as to how tank training was done in 1941.
However, the comical turn the film takes is just a little corny now, and probably insulting if you are a cabbie from New York City. George Tobias plays a cabbie from NYC who comes to Fort Knox to join the army and drive tanks. He speaks in an exaggerated Queens accent as though he is an escapee from a Bowery Boys movie, and he thinks he can...drive the taxi up to the front door and leave it on the base? When he is told to ditch the car by a commanding officer, he leaves his taxi to a terrible and unintentional fate. Honestly, if this were the caliber of recruits in 1941 the US could forget winning any kind of war, much less a two front one!
Worth it for the history of it all.