The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. Students stand at attention on an airfield. They march in formation. The students salute. Other students take out carts loaded with bags out of a building. United States Army Air Corps Lieutenant Colonel Carl Andrew Spaatz inspects aviators and mechanics.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. An aircraft takes off from an airfield and is in flight overhead. U.S. Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, Chief of the Air Service John D. Ryan and U.S. Army General Bliss, Lieutenant General James Guthrie Harbord and General John J. Pershing standing on the airfield. They discuss and inspect airplanes.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. A wrecked airplane on an airfield. Men standing near the wrecked British Sopwith fighter biplane. Wrecked parts of the airplane and debris.
The Second Aviation Instruction Center in Tours, France during World War I. Firemen respond to a practice alert and arrive with wheel carts. The carts are loaded with hoses and other equipment. The firemen put the hoses in a tanker. They throw water from the hoses.
U.S. Army 9th Machine Gun Battalion in Chateau Thierry, France, during World War I. Ruins of destroyed buildings on the street. Smoke due to mortar shelling. 9th Machine Gun Battalion march with rifles on their shoulders. World War 1 (WWI).
United States 6th Engineer Battalion in Chateau Thierry, France during World War I.. The 6th Engineer Battalion receives hot chocolate from the Young Men Christian Association (Y.M.C.A) before entering St. Eugene. A cart in the background. A woman pours chocolate in the mugs of the troops. The troops with rifles on their shoulders. A man puts the hot chocolate in a container which is kept on the cart. The troops move in a foxhole carrying rifles and mugs in their hands.