Members of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps (Corpo Expedicionário Português or CEP) are seen having a civilized lunch at a second line trench, where they served under British and/or French control, on the Western Front in France during World War 1. Portuguese soldiers emerge from a well-established dugout deep in a wood lattice-reinforced trench. Lengthwise view of Portuguese troops lined up in the deep trench. Several make their way single-file toward the camera. Slate identifies a telephone station in the secondary trench. A soldier in a French Adrian steel helmet stands at the entrance of a heavily fortified dugout. Numerous phone wires extend outward and upwards from the dugout entrance. (They are difficult to see against the rocks reinforcing the entrance.)
Opening scene shows Portuguese soldiers in a deep lattice-reinforced frontline trench in France, during World War 1. One is standing on a platform looking over the edge of the trench, as an officer stands nearby. Glimpse of the soldier wearing an Adrian French steel helmet as he peeks above the trench. View of cameraman using a periscopic viewer to look over a heavily sandbagged section of trench.
Shows U.S. 102nd infantry cooks preparing meals for troops at a field kitchen during World War I at Vailly in France. Food is prepared in a large cooker. The cooks put the food in containers and load it on horse carriages. The food is delivered to 102nd Infantry troops in trenches.
View of a shell-pocked countryside near Chamin Des dames in France during World War I. An abandoned house. American troops dig ground.
Shows U.S. Army 102nd Infantry headquarters during World War 1 at Fort Malmaison and 103rd Infantry headquarters at Francinette in France. U.S. Army troops walk through damaged and ruined buildings. U.S. Army soldiers walk through trenches and sand bag walled fortifications that connect to hillside caves. A soldier pauses and studies a map or other paper in the trench.
Shows General P.E. Traub of the U.S. 26th Infantry Division conferring with French Army officers at a hill side in Couvrelles, France during World WAR I.