Damaged French St. Chamond tank; line of British tanks covered with sheeting; wrecked French Renault FT tank with playing card "spade" symbol on its side. German A7V tank "Mephisto" being inspected by French soldiers after its recovery from the battlefield by British and Australian troops. On its side is graffiti painted by the Australians, including a British lion with its paws on a German A7V. More shots of A7V; another wrecked Renault FT; knocked out British Mk IV tank; knocked-out British Mk V and other tanks; two projectiles, possibly British "Toffee Apple" mortar bombs (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
American troops gather around and on top of a French Renault FT Light Tank, as an officer reads from manual of instructions. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Film showing protective measures in case of a gas attack. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) soldiers in deep trenches reinforced by woven wooden sticks. Soldiers put on their gas masks during a gas attack. Gas drifts over their positions. View from trench, what slate describes as what a sentry would see. Barbed wires in the foreground, snow on the ground, and gas mist covering the no-man's land outside the trench. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
film by American Expeditionary Forces about protective measures during a gas attack. A Sentry putting on his gas mask as he sounds a pedal gong warning of a gas attack. Soldiers with their gas masks on run out of a dugout. Two men wearing gas masks in a dugout. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Two American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) soldiers in a deep trench clean their rifles. Snow on the ground.The trench is lined with woven tree limbs and twigs, and even include "benches" for sitting. A third soldier appears with gas attack warning. The soldiers don their gas masks. Others appear wearing gas masks. All take firing positions in the trench, as gas drifts over them. A soldier without a mask stumbles into the trench. One of the soldiers places a gas mask over his face. Another goes down the trench and fetches medics who attend to the victim. The medics carry the gassed soldier on a stretcher into a gas proof dugout. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Several soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) are seen moving through a trench, carrying supplies to their sector. Snow is on the ground all around the trench. Suddenly they stop and don their gas masks. The sit down in the trench as a gas cloud comes over them. Scene changes to a group of soldiers digging defenses at the base of a earthen berm. A lookout sentry standing above them sees a gas cloud headed their way and alerts everyone. All stop what they are doing, don their gas masks, and take up positions to better observe. Some remain behind the berm and other stand upon it. The next sequence illustrates the use of Ayrton fans to clear gas from a trench. Soldiers waving the fans move, one behind the other, low in a deep trench. In the next scene, drifting gas partially obscures a dugout entrance in a trench. A soldier, uses an Ayrton fan to dispel the gas. In the final scene, soldiers in gas masks are in firing positions in a trench. A gas cloud appears to have dissipated. One soldier removes his gas mask make sure it is safe, and then tells the others, who remove their masks and stow them away. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)