U.S. Infantry of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) engage in live fire training exercise in France, during World War 1. They attack toward a tree line, throwing hand grenades, as they advance. Smoke rises from grenade explosions. In change of scene, General John Joseph Pershing salutes troops parading in review on a training field. (WWI; WW1)
Opening slate (in French): French women during the War (World War 1). Women at work in France during the First World War. French women load hay onto a horse drawn cart. A woman takes care of a horse. Woman leads two pairs of yoked oxen out of a barn. They make the cattle plow a field. A woman with a pair of horses as they till the soil. A group of women collect harvest from a field. Women bring buckets of water from a pond.
French soldiers in France during World War 1. French women in a street. A girl pins up a medal onto a French soldier. Women knit as they sit around a table in a building. Line of French soldiers receive clothes from women working at a counter during a snow storm. A woman in a war manufacturing helmet factory works on a helmet. She weaves straps into the inside of a French Army helmet. She removes a pencil from her hair bun and writes out a note of support to the future recipient of the helmet, and then she tucks it under an inside flap of the completed helmet. Nuns outside a cinema hall hand out treats to soldiers and soldiers enter the movie theatre hall. Women nurses and nuns care for young children and help them at a gathering where they receive flags and toys. Soldiers look on as a girl sings with an amputee. A man and woman couple walk together in a field. The woman helps the man put on and tighten an arm prosthesis, and then the man ably helps saw a log of wood. Women put flowers on French graves in a field. French soldiers sleep in a trench as one soldier stands watch.
U.S. soldiers moving about and conversing in trenches and bunkers near the front in France, during the first World War (World War I). The soldiers with rifles in bunkers. Two soldiers look at a map. American troops unload food supplies from a truck. They start to throw loaves of bread to the soldiers who are stacking them. One U.S. Army soldier soldier mugs for the camera with a half loaf of bread in each hand. He eats some of the bread. An American soldier poses wearing the helmet of a German soldier, looking out from his bunker. He looks straight at the camera, without cracking a smile.
General Philippe Petain in France during World War I. French General Petain visits a camp. He inspects and tastes wine. The French General is surrounded by several men. Officers fills wine in a mug from a barrel. An officer gives the wine to General Petain. Several men sit and others stand in the background. General Petain tastes more wine. A building in the background.
Catholic services in France during World War I. People gather in an area. Buildings along the sides of the street. The priests standing on a platform read the holy book. People watch the catholic services from the window of a building. Men arrive at the platform and the priest blesses them.