Activities of the American soldiers in France during World War I. A gun shelled car. The soldiers standing near the car and inspect the bullet holes and wreckage. A puppy dog and a kitten playing together as two soldiers watch.
British forces manning 8-inch howitzers on the Western Front in World War 1. Others firing a 155mm heavy long gun near a village in France. British gunnery Sergeant using a megaphone to relay instructions to gun crew. Firing a heavy gun at close to zero elevation. Firing 8-pouder field pieces in the midst of trenches in No-Mans land. Firing a howitzer equipped with mud flaps (girdles) on its wheels to minimize bogging down in the mud. Glimpse of German soldiers unpacking artillery shells with a 15 cm Kanone 16 in the background. A British 8-pounder firing among trenches. British infantry moving across a quiet battlefield. A British Mark IV tank moving across trenches. A British battery of howitzers firing. Closeup of gun crew firing an 8-pounder from under camouflage covering. British troops lined up in a deep reinforced trench. They climb over the top. Glimpse of two German soldiers rushing up out of a reinforced bunker. British infantry advancing across battlefield, under fire. On carries a Lewis gun and the other a rifle with fixed bayonet. Huge explosions raise black smoke as a British Mark IV tank moves in foreground. German gunners in a fortified bunker, firing a Maxim MG 08 machine gun. Closeup of machine gun. View from trench underneath, as a British tank rolls overhead. View from above shows it is a Mark V "male" tank, armed with a short 6-pounder (57-mm) Hotchkiss gun in the right sponson. British infantry running across the battlefield with smoke everywhere. A shell strikes and one soldier falls ans rolls over. . Another glimpse of German machine gunners firing. View from behind barbed wire as a British Mark V tank advances toward the camera. White smoke is punctuated by puffs of black smoke from shelling. A line of soldiers are silhouetted against light sky as they flee across a hill top. A shell striking and fire burning in a French village. Views of desolate "no man's land." British infantry, including pipers, walking across the battlefield. Stubs of trees and destroyed remains of a village. A line of British infantry leaning forward in trench behind an earthen berm. They charge over the top. One remains lying against the hill. Troops silhouetted against the sky as they move across the battlefield and down a deep ravine and up the other side.
American troops aboard Navy transport at pier. Troops embark on Navy transports at Hoboken.
English tanks captured at Cambrai, France during World War I. German motor troops stand and talk near a captured British Mark IV heavy tank in Cambrai. Troops get into tank and tank is being driven on field. British tank crosses a trench. Tank advances. German soldier gets out of tank.
British tanks captured at Cambrai, France by German forces during World War I. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany arrives and inspects a British Mark IV heavy tank. Tank is driven and a French lamp post is destroyed.
French Army trucks pass by in a line in Maurepas, Yvelines, France during World War 1. Artillery pieces are seen in the bed of the vehicles. Men standing by on the roadway.