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French taxis transport soldiers from Paris during Battle of Marne, WW1
French troops are transported by train and Parisian taxi cabs, upon orders by General Joseph Gallieni, to the First Battle of Marne (World War 1). French soldiers riding a locomotive train. Taxi cabs (Renault AG1 Landaulets) leave Paris transporting soldiers to Marne. Crowds watch the taxi cabs with soldiers leave Paris. Two soldiers talking to each other at the back of a taxi cab on the way to the front. 250-350 Renault AG1 Landaulets, more popularly known as the Renault Taxi de la Marne (for their role in transporting 4,000 soldiers to the First Battle of Marne in 1914), leave Paris for the front.
American troops training with mortars and machine guns, in France during World War I
Troops of the First Division, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) pose in front of a building at their Gondrecourt training area in France, during World War 1. Six Stokes mortars are set up in a line on the ground in front of them, with unit flags fastened to them. Two soldiers adjust elevation of a Stokes mortar and then commence firing it rapidly. Another pair of soldiers are seen firing a Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun. They remove the gun and its tripod carriage, separately when done firing.
U.S. 165th Infantry soldiers are inspected, issued clothing, and paid, in France during World War I.
Officers inspect troops from Company B, 165th Infantry Regiment (42nd Infantry, Rainbow Division) in France during World War 1. The soldiers are lined up in front of their pup tents, in a field. Captain K. C. Siebert, Lieutenant R. Doris and Lieutenant F. W. Carter inspect strong dugouts of Company A, in a hillside just behind the front lines, at Chasseurs, France. Officers walk out of the passageway of an adjoining heavy stone structure (Headquarters?). Scene shifts to U.S. Machine gun battalions firing French Hotchkiss M1914 heavy machine guns. At each position, one soldier feeds a strip of 8mm Lebel cartridge ammunition while the other fires the weapon. Slate states that the firing is toward a German town 2,800 meters away. Men of a machine gun company are seen lined up to receive issues of personal clothing from Quartermaster. Soldiers of the 165th Infantry receiving pay from paymasters at an outdoor table near a hillside dugout. One counts out a soldier's pay and another annotates a pay ledger.
European Heads of State review their respective forces mobilizing for World War I. Glimpses of trench warfare.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II walks among German troops assembled for inspection in Berlin, Germany at outbreak of World War 1. The Kaiser and senior commanders review the troops on parade. The last contingent in the parade comprises civilian officials in top hats. French Prime Minister, Alexandre Ribot, is saluted by a military honor guard as he exits a building. He doffs his hat and turns in deference, as Raymond Poincaré, President of France exits behind him. They both enter a waiting car, followed by the French Minister of War, Jean Brun., who joins them. As they are being made comfortable in the car, French General Ferdinand Foch, exits the building (wearing a great coat) and is escorted by another General. In Russia, Emperor, Tsar nicholas ll, leads military commanders as they review a contingent of Russian guards in formation on the platform of a train station in Moscow. Camera pans across crowds filling the Palace Square, St. Petersburg, upon the declaration of war on 20, July, 1914. Base of the Alexander Column visible in center of crowd. Russian troops file into well established trenches. Huge explosions raise tons of earth amongst the trenches. Troops flee for safety. Many take cover in large shell craters. Several fall to machine gun fire, near barbed wire. A book is opened to a page entitled: "Military Program Proletarian Revolution" (in Russian). German troops are seen from above and behind sheltered in a trench with a desolate battlefield in front of them. Closeup of the troops. Next, Russian troops who died are seen in a water-filled trench. One is holding an M1891/Mosin–Nagant firle. Closeup of another soldier, covered in mud leaning against sandbags. Bodies of two soldiers at a pond of water in their trench. One is immersed, with face up, in the pond and the other is reaching down into it. What appear to be the bodies of soldiers entangled in barbed wire at edge of trench..
French Army aircraft available at the beginning of World War I.
A French Army Bleriot XI airplane on a field at the outbreak of World War 1, in 1914. The pilot starts the engine, and taxis around on the field. Next, French Army observer-gunner climbs into front seat of a Farman MF.11 Shorthorn biplane, He is followed by the pilot who sits behind him. They start engine and promptly taxi out on a grass field. Finally, a French pilot is seen standing next to the cockpit of a Caudron G.3 airplane. (WWI. WW1)
Carousel and amusement rides in Montmartre, Paris, France (WW1)
Amusement rides and carousel on the Boulevard de Clichy in Montmartre, Jardin de Paris, in Paris, 1914 at start of WWI. Parisians watch a swinging “Pirate Ship” gondola (pendulum ride) and a carousel. A carousel ride in front of the Moulin Rouge at 82 Boulevard de Clichy, 75018 Paris. Parisian man attempts to punch a punching bag, sign nearby says “Lutte de Combat” (“Fighting fight” in English). Parisians watching the carousel. A Parisian woman catches a tram. Streetcars, automobiles, and horse drawn buggies in a busy street in Paris with some French soldiers in uniform seen.
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