U.S. troops in France during World War I. They are building a camp. They haul cut trees from the edge of a forest using a truck and trailer, and are seen setting up a new camp using the logs.
Promotion of Liberty Bonds in Washington D.C., United States during World War I. Lieutenant Henry Reuterdahl and another officers paint a sign board outside the Navy Building. Men in foreground with the sign promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds in the background. Lieutenant Reuterdahl paints part of the sign which reads ' Sink the U Boat '. The sign has a separate hard cut-out piece in the shape of a German submarine. It moves along a sliding groove so that it can be shown as sinking into the painted waves. Lt. Reuterdahl moves the end of the U-boat cutout up and down showing its motion.
An Allied ship underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War 1. A naval gun aboard the ship. Men on the deck of the ship. Land mines lined up on the deck. A mine being pulled up in a crane onto the ship from a barge along the side the ship. The mine aboard. A man pushes a mine placed onto a trolley on the deck of the ship. Boats at a port with buildings in the background. Smoke rises from a hill in the far background.
Torpedo missile being manufactured in the United States during first World War. Men at a factory work on torpedoes. A man works on a screw with a driver. Inside of torpedo casing shown. Men work on the torpedoes as American flags hang from the roof of the factory. Equipment inside the torpedo. A torpedo on a machine as men turn it from side to side. A small propeller on the back of it behind its fins is seen spinning at high speed.
Torpedoes loaded onto combination truck / rail trailers outside a building at a dock. Torpedoes lined up on the deck of a ship. Torpedoes being hauled aboard a ship. A crane pulls up the torpedoes and places them onto a trailer. Men unload the torpedoes onto the trailer. Nose and tail views of torpedoes placed on the trailer. View of a gun in the hull of a ship being readied. Two views of two different surface torpedoes being fired from the gun, apparently as tests, toward an unseen destination in the water.
U boats underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. Men on the deck of a captured U boat along the side a vessel. American sailors on the deck of a captured German submarine. American flag hoisted on the deck. Men at a naval gun aboard the U boat.