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United States soldiers arriving by ship and marching on a street in a French town during World War I.
Activities of the United States soldiers in Europe during World War I. United States Army soldiers depart from a troop ship at a French port. They are seen marching in a French town. Houses along the side of a street in the town. Trees along the other side of the street. A band marching on the street.
The U.S. 112th Infantry Regiment arriving in Calais France, during World War I
Three officers of the 112th Infantry Regiment (Sixteenth Pennsylvania) American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) pose for the camera at Port of Calais, France, upon arrival there in May, 1918,during World War 1. Two wear campaign hats and one wears a service cap with chin strap fastened. Troops offload duffle bags from trucks onto a railroad station platform, and sort them by units. The troops enter a warehouse where they are issued Enfield rifles and bayonets. Soldiers standing in a group familiarizing themselves with their new weapons and cleaning them. A locomotive pulling troops in rail freight cars with open side doors. The soldiers wave as their train passes the camera. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Red Cross nurses at Saint Nazaire aboard SS Heredia for United States at end of World War I.
View of a passenger ship SS Heredia docked at port in Saint Nazaire, France. Red Cross nurses dressed in coats and hats aboard ship for United States following World War 1. Nurses bid farewell by waving their hands
Historical events of 1935 including Stresa Front, U.S. anti-war demonstrations, FDR in Jacksonville, Easter Parade, Female flyers
Scenes showing various historical events that took place in April 1935, during the Great Depression. In Stresa, Italy, on the banks of Lake Maggiore, leaders of Britain, France and Italy confer on German rearmament, in violation and defiance of the Versailles Treaty. (There they sign the "Stresa Front"). Images show the French and British delegations arriving by boat and walking near the port at Stresa, including British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, French Prime Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, and French Foreign Minister (President of the Council of Ministers) Pierre Laval. U.S. College students across the country join in anti-war, pacifist demonstrations. They are seen marching with banners and anti-war signs and cartoons. One banner reads, "It is the task of the 20th century to make this world a brotherhood." Also "War is Hell....Who want to go to hell?" and "War is Stupid". President Franklin Roosevelt returns from a two week cruise. He arrives in Jacksonville Florida. Local officials and crowds in Jacksonville greet him and cheer. Boy Scouts in a line greet the President. Views of Franklin Roosevelt in an open car and on ships and docks. Al Smith and Herbert Hoover share the speaker's stage in New York lending their support for the Salvation Army during the Depression. Scenes from the Easter Parade in New York City. Crowds gather, filling double-decker open air buses. Al Smith seen with his wife. Postmaster General James Farley and Irish tenor singer John McCormack are seen on Fifth Avenue in New York. Amelia Earhart completes a 1700-mile flight from Burbank, California to Mexico City. Scenes of her in Mexico City in a car laden down with celebrating Mexican officials. Aviatrix Bernadine King sets a new record for upside down endurance flying. She is seen getting into her plane, and her plane is seen upside down in the air.
U.S. Naval Forces at Iwo Jima in Japan.
A Landing Ship Medium (LSM) underway off the coast in Iwo Jima, Japan. Battleship, probably BB-38 USS Pennsylvania fires. Smoke rises from bow. A heavy cruiser and destroyer can be seen on horizon in background. Formation of planes in flight above the sea. View of the Iwo Jima beach as some tracked landing vehicles (LVTs) make their way towards the beach. Smoke from gun fire seen. Destroyer from port quarter, a second destroyer in the background. An Amphibious Force Command Ship (AGC) with a landing craft alongside. U.S. Navy officers use perolis on bridge of a ship. (World War II period).
Film depicting some of the tragic human aftermath during and after World War I
A film looking at some of the tragic human costs of World War 1 ("The Great War"). Opening slates read, (in French) "What the war has left behind it." "9 million dead." Then, a vast battlefield cemetery is shown,filled with rough wooden crosses. Camera pans over parts of it. Another, better tended cemetery is seen with finer crosses. Then another battlefield graveyard, with freshly dug graves and rough markers is shown. Slate reads, "The sea, a vast tomb." Another slate reads, millions of crippled," followed by scenes of Allied soldiers and medics, carrying their gear, across a barren battlefield. One rough cross is seen.In next scene it is clear they are scouring the battlefield for wounded and dead. Stretcher bearers make their way cautiously across ditches and makeshift bridges as they retrieve the wounded. Two assist a walking wounded soldier with bandaged eyes. Wounded seen being brought into a sandbagged brick building serving as a hospital. A field ambulance also takes patients from the hospital. A convoy of field ambulances carry wounded from the battlefields. A two-stacker British hospital ship steaming at high speed away from a French port, headed for England. Wounded British war veterans being moved in wicker wheel chairs outside a substantial building. Uniformed attendant picks one up bodily and places him into another wicker wheel chair that allows his legs to be outstretched. The attendant covers him with a blanket. Next, that veteran is seen, conversing with a men, in an outdoor area, where other wheel-chair bound veterans are enjoying small flower gardens and socializing in the sunshine. A white-coated caregiver assists a stooped veteran who takes many small steps to walk. Next is seen the famous 1919 painting by John Singer Sargeant, of blinded soldiers on the battlefield, titled, "Gassed." (It is now in the British Imperial War Museum.) Slate reads "They'll never see again," and several blind veterans are seen in dark glasses walking outdoors in the company of others. Blind veterans, injured in gas attacks, are seen making baskets by hand.
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