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Fliers and support personnel at the First Air Depot, in France, pose and cheer in front of DH-4 airplanes at airfield in World War I

U.S. Fliers of the 96th Aero Squadron, pose with support personnel and some French counterparts, at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Camera pans across the group posing in front of a line of parked De Havilland DH-4 bombers. They wave and throw their hats into the air.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles, France
Date: 1918
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070260
A gunner climbs down from De Havilland DH-4 bomber that nosed-over in France during World War I.

A French Breguet 14 biplane bomber taxis around to the left and lines up with other aircraft parked at the Colombey-les-Belles Airdrome in France during World War 1 . (Blue-white-red vertical paint stripes on their tails identify these as French aircraft.) Several Breguet 14 biplane bombers take off, one after the other, from the field. A motorcycle with sidecar and a loaded truck drive beneath planes taking off. A change of scene shows a gunner still in the rear cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 bomber that has just nosed over. Its propeller is buried in the ground. Tricolor roundels on its wings (blue-white-red, from center outward) identify this as a French airplane. A number of pilots and mechanics gather around as the gunner begins climbing down from his cockpit.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles France
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070262
U.S. 96th Aero Squadron mechanics line up Dehavilland DH-4 airplanes on airfield in World War I

Activities of U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Mechanics and soldiers push a DH-4 biplane bomber out of a canvas-covered hangar and onto the airfield. Five DH-4s parked on the grass field. The mechanics and the soldiers push two more DH-4 aircraft into the line at the field. The tails of all the aircraft are painted in the French scheme of vertical blue-white-red stripes, with the blue forward.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles France
Date: 1918, July 26
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070256
De Havilland DH-4 bomber preparing to depart on a mission from a French airfield, in World War I.

U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. A gunnerchecking out the Scarff ring mounting of his Lewis machine gun in the rear cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 bomber aircraft. His pilot approaches the aircraft and gets in the cockpit. The pilot and the gunner both shake hands with an American officer who reaches up to them from the ground. Then they settle down in their cockpits for engine start. Three ground crewmen with hands linked together, pull the propeller through several times before they manage to start the aircraft engine. They move away from the aircraft as the engine fires. They pull chocks from in front of the wheels and the aircraft taxis onto the airfield. The airplane tail displays the French blue-white-red vertical paint stripe scheme.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles, France
Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 16 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070259
American Air Service officers examine a Vickers machine gun mounted on a Brequet 14 airplane in France, during World War I

U.S. Air Service officers observe test firing of Vickers machine gun on a Brequet 14 airplane, at the First Air Depot in France, during World War 1. Colonel T. D. Milling, Commanding Officer, First Brigade, First Army Corps; Captain G. C. Thomas Jr.,96th Aero Squadron; First Lieutenant V. F. Ludden, 96th Aero Squadron, and Pilot, 1st Lieutenant C. G. Sellers (in the cockpit) examining a Vickers machine gun mounted on the side of a Breguet 14 airplane, named "Photo." Lieutenant Sellers fires the machine gun from the cockpit. View of the machine gun firing with expended cartridges being ejected. (The gun is designed to synchronize and fire through the turning propeller when the engine is running. But that is not demonstrated here.)

Location: Colombey-les-Belles France
Date: 1918
Duration: 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070263
U.S. 128th Field Artillery firing French 75-mm guns at Le Cotes de Forimont on September 27, 1918.

Closeup views of U.S. 128th Field Artillery troops firing French 75-mm guns at Le Cotes de Forimont (France) on September 27, 1918, during World War 1. Views of the gun breech, as shells are inserted, fired, and casings discharged.

Location: Le Cotes de Forimont France
Date: 1918, September 27
Duration: 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029627
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