U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. U.S. soldier is wearied after exercise wearing gas mask . He is tired and sits besides tree after 15 minutes of exercise. He takes off his gas mask and lights a cigarette. In contrast, a company of soldiers returning from a five mile hike in gas masks show no undue weariness.They remove their helmets and masks and appear fine. A platoon commander inspects his troops wearing gas maskes, prior to entering a gas chamber for training.
U.S. Chemical Warfare Service. Troops, in training for chemical warfare, wear gas masks and enter a gas chamber in the United States.One soldier lacks confidence and must be encouraged to enter the chamber. Soldiers come out of the chamberand remove their gas masks. The reluctant trainee is now enthusiastic about the experience.
A division commander of Chemical Warfare Service tells assembled World War 1 trainee soldiers that, properly trained, they should be able to perform their duties, in simulated combat, for at least one hour, in full protective gas masks, without loss of efficiency. Soldiers seen training in field wearing gas masks. Officer in charge of gun crew is wearing new diaphragm microphones so that gun crew can hear while wearing their gas masks. He drills gun crew with commands.
Chemical Warfare Service training in the United States during World War I. An officer addresses a group of soldiers, giving last minute advice as they prepare to depart for active combat in France. He discusses persistent and non-persistent agents and conditions of temperature inversion favorable to gas attack.
Chemical Warfare Service training of U.S. Army trains in the United States during World War I. American Army soldiers wearing gas masks attempt to identify chemical agents as they are discharged on a field. The Division is deployed in trucks and on foot. Soldiers move forward in a line around a hil and along a muddy road. Soldiers lying in foxholes as cloud of gas approaches. One soldier swings a gas alarm ringer round and round to alert everyone. Other soldiers immediately don their gas masks. Later wind conditions allow them to rest. But the enemy fires gas shells into their midst anyway. So they must don gas masks again. A patrol goes out and encounters mustard gas. They check wind to avoid contact with it and move upwind.
World War I: Camouflaged transport ship; ferry boat; and a tugboat, in a river. Three U.S. Navy destroyers tied together, as another approaches. Six U.S. destroyers closely tied together.