Soldiers prepare for the battle in Verdun during World War I. They place an artillery in a hide out. Houses in the background. Armored train on the railway track. Soldiers march on a street. Damaged buildings and rubble along the sides of the street.
French soldiers move forward on the front in Verdun, France during World War I. They prepare for the battle. Trench on the battlefield. Soldiers sit in a field. Bombarding in the background. Smoke from the bombarding. Soldiers walk in the trenches. Bombarding and firing continues. Soldiers take a wounded soldier on stretcher. Other soldiers in the trenches. High altitude view of the battlefield.
French soldiers collect German abandoned equipment in Verdun, France during World War I. Soldiers in a trench. The wrecked equipment of Germans scattered in the battlefield. Ruins of a German base. German prisoners of war walk. French soldiers walk along with them.
German troops captured in the battle of Verdun, during World War One, are held temporarily at prison camp in Souilly (Meuse), France. French soldiers stand guard with the prisoners. Conditions are rainy and muddy. German prisoners line up to receive canvas tents for their immediate shelter. For their first meal they receive bread and canned food. Group of captured German officers pose. The German prisoners are loaded into army trucks for transport to more permanent prison camps, in the rear. (Slate says "They will return to the peace camps in France" or words to that effect.)
Generals Mangin, Neville and Petain reviews French troops in Verdun, France during World War I . French soldiers stand in a line. Generals shake hands with the soldiers. General Petain decorates the soldiers. A band marches. Soldiers march with flags. Generals salutes the soldiers.
Supplies are moved towards the front during World War I. Ammunition and supply trucks, mules drawn artillery advance along the country roads. Trees in the area. Soldiers march with the supplies. Transporting machine guns to the front. Houses along the sides of the street. German shells fire. Dead bodies of soldiers. Vehicles move forward with the supplies.