Success of 'Hanging Eye' by the United States Army Air Service in Newport News, Virginia. Demonstrations of direct bombing over enemy targets with the help of a dirigible hidden in a cloud. Lieuts, Paul and McCracken are lowered in a tiny Hanging Eye to blimp and telephone to craft above. Aviators seated in a little car with fields on ground in the background.
Chemical warfare activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) in France during World War I. Members of the American Expeditionary Force drill holes into shells with the help of a machine. They wear oxygen masks and pour a chemical into bottles. A soldier tests the chemical in a laboratory. The troops walk out of a room to breathe in fresh air.
British troops in deep trenches lined with woven branches, on the Western Front in World War 1. Slate refers to gas alarm with Strombos horn. British soldiers immediately don their gas masks and take up defensive firing positions in their trench. Gas fumes are seen drifting over the trench. View from the trench, of gas cloud over No-Man's land, with barbed wire and some snow on the ground. [Note: The Strombos horn,was operated by compressed air and could be heard for several miles. But as use of gas shells increased, and such attacks tended to be localized, other alarms were employed, instead, such as metal shell cases, steel triangles, watchmen's rattles, klaxon horns, etc.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. Gas masks makes breathing difficult for American Army soldiers and animals training before deploying to France during World War I. Recruits undergo fifteen minute drill with the gas masks. An exhausted U.S. Army soldier relaxes and smokes a cigarette sitting near a tree. Troops run on a field wearing gas masks. They take off their masks and breathe in fresh air.
King George VI of the United Kingdom and United States Army General Dwight D Eisenhower at the First Army Headquarters in Verviers, Belgium during World War II. Lieutenant General C. H. Hodges, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar N Bradley, and a United States Army Air Force General await the arrival of King George VI. Officers converse with each other and look up at the sky. A sedan drives up to a building. United Kingdom King George VI gets out of the car. He is greeted by General Eisenhower.
United States Army General Dwight D. Eisenhower at the First Army Headquarters in Verviers, Belgium during World War II. Lieutenant General C H Hodges, General Eisenhower, U.S. Army Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley and a United States Army Air Force General stand on the steps outside the headquarters. They look up at the sky and converse with each other. U.S. soldiers salute as General Eisenhower goes inside the building. A photographer takes pictures.
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