The St Mihiel Drive, France, during World War I. U.S. operated SPAD airplanes lined up on a field. U.S. crewmen stand besides the planes. U.S. and German airplane engage in dogfight. German airplane crashed upside down in a field, being examined by American soldiers. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
The Saint Mihiel Drive, France. U.S. artillery pulled by horses being rushed to the front. Artillerymen dig earth to emplace their French 75s. A soldier sits on pile of spent shells generated by the high rate of fire during the barrage. U.S. artillerymen load and fire their field pieces. ( World War 1. WWI. WW1)
The Aisne Marne Operation in France. A U.S. Army staff officer opens door of staff car with 1711 painted on its side. U.S. Army Brigadier General Dwight Edward Aultman, Chief of Artillery of the 5th Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, steps from the car and the staff officer briefs him with a map. Two other soldiers remain in front seat of the car. General Aultman poses with fields behind him. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)in World War I. Several Generals and senior officers of the AEF inspect troops of the U.S. 3rd Army, in France. The officers are mounted on horseback and proceed through the ranks of soldiers drawn up in formation for inspection. One row of soldiers is standing behind their respective machine guns. The Generals seen ready to review the troops in parade. The infantry marches first, followed by horse-drawn artillery pulling French 75 field pieces, support elements consisting of horse-drawn covered wagons, and then troops in motorized trucks and automobiles. View of infantry marching with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. The ranking general saluting the troops from horseback.
British soldiers in France, during World War 1. Sentry in a deep reinforced trench detects gas and puts on gas mask while sounding pedal gong alarm. He closes door of a protected dugout and alerts soldiers, in unprotected dugout of the trench, who don gas masks and come out, as gas cloud drifts over the trench.. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
ITwo officers confer in front of a group of French aviators lined up before a hangar in France during World War 1. Scene shifts to the pilots being given last moment briefing and then running to their respective voisin 3 airplanes parked in a line on grass field. (WWI. WW1)