Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A target gunnery range. U.S. gunners fire at paper targets. Hits upon a target. A gunner and a target checker check the hits upon the target. The gunnery range shows gun turret mock ups, sheds in the area, a gunnery range and a target area. Men fire at targets along a bank. The target test area shows models of aircraft being raised and lowered for the gunners to shoot at. A close up of a gunner sighting down the barrel of a machine gun mounted on a post. The gunner fires too short bursts. He replaces an ammunition clip and fires again.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A twin engine biplane. Four vertical tail fins with four wheels as main landing gear plus skid bars beneath the biplane. The aircraft taxis. A group of U.S. officers stands around a portable communication center and shows radio equipment and operation. A radio setup in an open filed. U.S. soldiers stretch out signal panels on the open ground. A burning object spirals down from the sky. Another burning object descends. Three soldiers run out and grab a small object just before it hits the ground. A man in the foreground fires signal pistol into the air showering the area in which the men are standing with sparks from the signal pistol.
Aviation activities in France during World War I. Lieutenant Lucien Dautresme and observer Henry Paschen climb into the cockpit of a Salmson 2 A.2. A ground crewman near the aircraft. His hands on the propeller of the aircraft. He turns the propeller of the aircraft. The aircraft takes off and in flight overhead.
Aviation activities in France during World War I. A French Letord bi-motor, bi-winged observation and photographic airplane parked at an airfield. A ground crewman standing beside the right wing motor looks up at another crewman standing in the nose machine gun position of the aircraft. Several tent hangars in the background.
Aviation activities in France during World War I. A French Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft parked at an airfield. A ground crewman turns the propeller of the aircraft. Tent hangars in the background. An observer in the rear cockpit of the Salmson 2 A.2 tests movement of twin machine gun mounts. Observer Lieutenant T. E. Hibbon fires a machine gun in the observer's cockpit of a stationary Spad 11 aircraft. A pilot is seated in the front cockpit of the aircraft.
Aviation activities in France during World War I. A French Spad 11 aircraft parked at an airfield. American observer Lieutenant J. P. Harmon of the 149th Field Artillery and pilot Kalley walk towards and climb into the cockpit of the aircraft. The propeller is turned, wheel chocks are removed and the aircraft taxis out. A hangar and a ground crewman in the background. 42nd Escadrille insignia, the Ibis, an Egyptian bird, is on the side of the aircraft. The aircraft makes a take off run from the airfield. A Spad 13 aircraft in a low flight. It lands. Lt. J. P. Harmon standing in the cockpit of the Spad 13 hands photographic plates to a ground crewman. 42nd Escadrille insignia on the side of the fuselage.