Various American equipment and weapons of World War I. Incendiary hand grenades used by Allies during World War I displayed in United States.
A U.S. soldier throws two exploding incendiary hand grenades during tests in the United States in World War 1. . Closeup of an incendiary canister. The tester (unseen) taps the fuse end of the canister and lays it down on a rough corrugated surface. It smokes before exploding and creating an intense flame that melts the canister. Molten remains of the device.
Scene opens showing an American soldier at a sandbagged position in a field in the U.S.A. during World War 1. He is sighting a 1903 Springfield rifle equipped with a sniper scope. He fires the rifle and cycles the bolt (firing single shots, manually). He repeats this several times.
An American soldier is shown, among buildings at a military base, kneeling beside a rifle set on a stand for test firing into an earthen berm nearby. He places a round into the chamber and closes the bolt. He then opens the bolt and retrieves the round (which slips from his hand and drops to the ground). Next, two different size rounds of ammunition are shown.
U.S. Army testing of weapons during World War 1. An American soldier fires a Browning M1917A1 .30-caliber Water-Cooled Machine Gun while sitting in a hard wooden chair on a porch. Two soldiers test firing a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. Another soldier test fires a Vickers Mark I water-cooled machine gun.
American soldiers in an Army passenger truck, ride into a field at an Army base in the United States, during World War 1. They step from the truck, remove boxes of ammunition, and a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. They set up the machine gun and prepare to fire it. Scene shifts to closeup of a soldier back at the truck, opening its compartments and checking the contents.