Shows American 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments uncovering and preparing a 14-inch railway gun for operation in Belleville, France, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War 1. Several railroad guns are seen in the field. One is labeled USN (U.S. Navy) 110. A supervisor walks past it using a megaphone to issue an order to the gun crew. The crew uses block and tackle to move and load a heavy shell. Scene shifts to a soldier climbing out of a trench with a manual in his hand. Camera shifts to one of the rail guns being fired, emitting a huge black cloud of smoke. Two more railway gun firings are recorded. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Railroad guns being fired by U.S. Army 52nd Steam Ship and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments at Belleville in France during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War I. Smoking barrels of the giant rail guns seen after firing.
Shows U.S. Army 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments troops loading 14-inch shells in a camouflaged railroad gun at Belleville in France during the Meuse-Argonne offensive. U.S. troops fire the railroad gun during World War 1 from underneath its camouflaged net position on the railroad tracks. After each firing, the regiment reapproaches the gun to reload and fire again.
World War I U.S. Army 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments troops at a railroad gun position in Belleville,France during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War 1. Doughboy troops sit on the barrel of the railroad gun, pose, smile and slide, playfully. They pull out a fellow soldier from inside the gun's barrel.
Soldiers, of U.S. Army Coast Artillery Regiment, place camouflage coverings atop a 14-inch railroad gun, in France, during World War 1. View of the camouflaged gun as its barrel slowly rises and it fires. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
United States Army Air Service (USAAS) 94th Fighter Squadron in France during World War 1. Lt Eddie Rickenbacker seated in the cockpit of a 94th Squadron Nieuport 28c.1fighter #12, as a ground crewman turns a propeller and the engine starts. The squadron's "Hat in Ring" logo is painted on the fuselage. Jump to October 1918 - Captain J. A. Meissner seated in the cockpit of a SPAD S.XIIIc.1 fighter. April 1918: Lieutenant Edwin Green seated in the cockpit of a Nieuport 28c.1 which starts to taxi. Another Nieuport takes off and climbs. Forward to October 1918 - Captain J. A. Meissner seated in the cockpit turns around and points towards the ground. A mock dogfight between two WW I bi-winged aircraft. American Army aviator Captain Eddie Rickenbacker seated in the cockpit of a USAAS Dayton-Wright DH-4 bomber looks back and waves. Aircraft is in flight. Aerial views of the ground showing a coastline below. The aircraft climbing over the clouds. Captain J.A. Meissner seated in the cockpit of an airborne aircraft. Captain Rickenbacker in his SPAD S.XIII fighter #1 in flight over the clouds. (Note: This is a segment of a longer film described in Eddie Rickenbacker's 1919 book, "Fighting the Flying Circus." It was filmed by Capt.Cooper of the U.S. Army Signal Corps from October 18th - 21st, 1918, and contained reenactments of air combat, some of it with a captured German Hanover C.III observation plane.) (WWI,WW1, World War One, First World War)
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