President Masaryk's train arrives at President Wilson Railway Station in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Bands play National Anthem at his arrival. Large crowd gathers at the station. Clement Simon French and representative of Great Britain, Colonel Montgomery Cunningham among the dignitaries present. Alice, Olga Masaryk and Poet Machar (whom Vienna called a traitor) ride in the royal carriage at a procession. Thousands of people cheer and celebrate. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Ford Biplanes at an airfield in United States. Planes take off and land. Men on airfield.
Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.
Manufacture of ordnance material in the United States during World War 1. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards are made. Workers work on machinery inside the factory. Trigger guards being made on machinery. Gun barrels placed on machinery. Workers look through a periscope.
Manufacture of machine guns in the United States as part of the World War 1 effort. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards are made. Number of unfinished rifles placed next to a machinery. Bayonets and browning machine gun barrels being forged. Parts of the Browning gun are cut, trimmed, filed and assembled.
Manufacture of rifles in the United States for World War 1. Rifle bars, stocks and trigger guards are made. Bayonets and browning machine gun barrels are forged. Parts of the browning gun are cut, trimmed, filed and assembled. Workers inside the factory as they work on machinery.
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