Brigadier General Merritt Austin Edson, Assistant Commander of the 2d Marine Division looks through binoculars on Saipan, in World War 2. After surveying the battlefield, he discusses the situation with his staff officers. Marine gunners manning an M101, 105mm howitzer, under camouflage netting. They rapid- fire the howitzer. Numerous shells striking and Smoke drifting across the battlefield.
During time of Egyptians seeking independence and protesting British rule in Egypt. A large crowd surrounds an official car carrying Saad Zaghlul Pasha, the Egyptian leader, as he returns from exile. Crowd carries a big flag. Trees along the side of the street. Saad Zaghlul Pasha stands at the door of a building.
View of several fallen French soldiers lying in a trench during World War 1. Scene shifts to a French medical corpsman treating wounded hand of a soldier in a trench. Medics and soldiers searching trenches for wounded. Teams of stretcher bearers carrying wounded on their shoulders. Ambulatory wounded French soldiers make their way along a trench to a first aid station, followed by stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier, whom they carefully move into a dugout. Change of scene to behind the lines in a French town, where wounded are loaded into an ambulance. View of the ambulance driving past a war-damaged church building. (WWI. WW1)
Contingent of French infantry, as seen through a corn field, marching with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. Scene shifts to a huge French military parade across an open field. Closeup of one cadre of soldiers pushing bicycles. Units of French cavalry, on horseback, canter in formation, raising dust as they pass. French artillery units pass with their field pieces and caissons pulled by teams of horses. (WWI. WW1)
British 5th Army gunners begin an intense bombardment of the 3rd German line, with 8 inch howitzers. during the Battle of the Ancre, in World War 1.They fire from under camouflage netting. Lines of shells standing on end, surround the gun positions.
Film show troops of Irish Regiment of United Kingdom soldiers taking up their positions in the trenches during the Battle of Ancre, in World War 1. Some of the troops from Ireland light a fire under a cooking pot that is set in a cut out section of the trench wall. Two soldiers and an officer climb aboard a camouflaged British Mark I tank (male). The officer carries a mascot black cat on his shoulder. The tank's six-pounder gun is moved from side to side and up and down, in the tank sponson.
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