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Stretcher bearers carry gassed man into gas proof dug out in France, during World War I.

British sentry stands near a gas-proof dugout at the end of a deep reinforced trench on the Western Front in World War 1. Two stretcher bearers arrive carrying a soldier gas victim. The sentry opens a door to the dugout, and helps them carry the victim inside. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027266
British Army troops respond to gas attack during World War I, in France. One operates a Lewis machine gun

British soldiers in France during World War 1. British soldiers take action as a gas cloud begins to envelop them in a trench on the Western Front. They don gas masks and take up firing positions. One is armed with a Lewis machine gun. Snow covers the field outside the trench, In change of scene, one soldier takes samples of the gas and analyzes them using a phosgene detector. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027267
American soldiers seen in France, during lulls in battle, World War I

U.S. 1st Division troops on the Western Front during World War I, during a break in battle. Two soldiers stand amongst war debris at the front. One holds something up in his hand. The other holds a mortar round in his hand. A soldier sits on edge of a crater, with a Vickers medium machine gun in his lap. Scene shifts to a soldier playing with a pet pig. U.S. soldiers standing in a pay line. A beautiful home in a French residential district. American Army officers pose with a French officer, for a photographer. U.S. cavalrymen, accompanied by a French soldier, ride on horseback in a French town.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027501
A United States railway gun is fired in France during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I.

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive as the final Allied offensive in France during World War 1. A map shows areas under the Meuse-Argonne Offensive along the entire western front. A railway gun is fired.

Date: 1918
Duration: 27 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675061244
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.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063340
German troops advance and take prisoners in the European Theater during World War I.

German troops in the European Theater during World War I. German Kaiserine Hermine Reuss talks to medics and German officers in Berlin, Germany before a hospital train leaves for the war front. German units advance past a building towards the western front. Horse drawn carts loaded with supply boxes being pulled along. Allied prisoners march as German soldiers keep guard.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066060