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America mobilizes for World War I and confronts demobilization afterwards
Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.
Elements of British Norfolk Regiment during World War I in France.
British soldiers, of the Norfolk Regiment pose alongside a Mark VII BL 6 inch field gun, on the Western Front in World War 1. The steam-powered tractor that pulled it is seen bogged down on a broken section of corduroy road. Another tractor is seen in the background. Scene shifts to Norfolks resting before heading to the front. Most of the the troops are sitting on the ground, with their arms stacked. Officers pose standing in the front. Next scene shows troops marching and teams of horses pulling wagons around a huge mine crater that has been fenced off in the wreckage of a destroyed town in France. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French soldiers among battle ruins during World War 1. French officer receives military decoration.
French soldier comfortably settled in ruins of building, cigarette in mouth, smiles and waves at camera. French soldiers among battle ruins during World War I on Western Front. Destroyed buildings. French officers and soldiers stand about by cars parked at a wartime ceremony in which soldier is being decorated. Fade to interior of the Gem Theatre, in Brooklyn, New York City, where these World War I scenes are part of series projected on the movie screen. Woman playing piano at front of movie theater to accompany the movie.
Montage of combat scenes (primarily British) from World War I
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.
German forces counterattack Allied troops in the Ardennes (WW2)
German Panzer tanks and light armored vehicles moving forward in the Ardennes during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. German 10.5cm self-propelled tank destroyer is seen covered with foliage moving in a field. A German soldier on top of a Panzer tank. White smoke rising across the entire background of the battlefield. German tank destroyer advancing in a town in the Ardennes region. German troops advancing into town as heavy smoke rises from bombed areas. German infantry crouching in a field near a house. Soldiers crawling on hands and knees as they engage in house-to-house fighting. German soldiers standing on top of an open turret shooting with their guns. German soldiers lying low in a field with a burning tank behind them. A German soldier fires a Panzerfaust anti-tank rocket launcher. German troops moving up town. A huge explosion next to a barn. Tank destroyers and camouflaged half-track armored personnel carrier moving forward as they are followed by infantry; a burning United States truck is seen. German forces advance in bombed out town; one of the soldiers is holding a Panzerfaust. They jump through a destroyed brick wall. U.S. Army soldiers upon capture by German forces. Captured Allied soldier prisoners of war coming out of a house with their hands in the air. Some of the soldiers surrender with a white flag. Captured Allied troops gathered in town square. Burned and destroyed Allied tanks. An upturned tank. A knocked out American tank with "America First" stenciled on its side. Two German soldiers inspect the hole on the side of the tank. Soldiers surround a captured Jeep. A soldier with a bloodied face uses the field phone to make a call. SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Josef "Sepp" Dietrich, the 4 Star Commander of the German 6th Panzer Army arrives in the scene. Dietrich steps out from his staff car. Dietrich watch German troops marching past him. German infantry troops moving along with military trucks and vehicles. Some of the troops bring bicycles. A German soldier looks up as a V-1 flying bomb passes overhead. A rifle stuck on the ground with its butt facing up near a Browning M1917 machine gun. Dead United States soldiers lying amidst destroyed weapons and equipment. Smoke rises from a burned U.S. tank. Captured M3 Stuart tanks and a M3 half-track lined up in a field.
Views of British Mark IV tank; troops of Royal West Kent Regiment; and British gunners, in World War I
British troops following a Mark IV tank on a road beside war damaged village houses. Troops of the The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment consolidating their positions in a captured German trench. Group of British gunners who have been in action since the Battle of Mons, in 1914, relax and take a smoking break in a trench area.