A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare during World War I. The "Collective Protector" enables a general and the staff to work on their maps and orders without gas masks at the Division Headquarters. Two soldiers outside the headquarters wearing gas masks. They guard a low entrance doorway and enclosed tunnel with a heavy, flexible door designed to keep out gas. A soldier lifts the flap of the door and enters. Officers converse with each other while looking at a map on a wall. Soldier stands by rotating a handle on a device continuously. It has a long wide pipe connected to it, perhaps managing fresh air intake or air exchange. U.S. soldiers wearing gas masks load ammunition onto trucks. "Enemy" aircraft flies overhead throwing a cloud of poisonous gas that quickly envelops the area. A soldier wearing a gas mask fires his rifle into the air at the aircraft, through the heavy smoke screen. Gas sentries neutralize the gas around a dump. They dig in the ground with pick axes and mattocks, and then spread a white powder over the area. They then cover the area with a thin layer of the dirt they had dug up.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare in World War I. Dramatization of a division chemical officer going over chemical warfare situation with the chemical officer from a new division. The officers seated inside a tent exchange notes. Gas casualties are taken out of ambulances. Disciplined soldiers return to rest areas at the Division Headquarters. A soldier removes his mask and goes to sleep.
A United States Army training film about chemical warfare service. United States soldiers in World War 1 fire Stokes Mortars after assembling them. Soldiers in arms-length line pass readied mortars forward and fire them in rapid succession. Explosions in the distance with smoke spreading and overcoming the area in smokescreen. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
United States Food Administrator Herbert Hoover in Belgium. Herbert Hoover drinks tea and converses with officials. In Brussels, Belgium, Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier is seen in conversation with a man standing beside a street. Next scene shows King of Romania Ferdinand I on horseback as he reviews his last brigade. Queen Marie of Romania stands with her daughter, Princess Ileana, during a ceremony. King Alexander I of Greece reviews his army before he sends them to battle against Bulgaria. Prince Arthur, the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and head of the British mission to Salonika is seen greeting King Alexander I. Greek Patriarch is also present. A ceremony of the surrender of Jerusalem in Palestine to the British under General Allenby. Last scene is from a ceremony of recognition in which Chaim Weizmann presented a Jewish scroll to Allenby (Weizmann seen on Allenby's right before the dignitaries are seated).
Generals of united Allies Armies prepare the final offensive against Kaiser Wilhelm II in Europe during World War 1. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, French General Philippe Petain, United States Army General John Pershing and Italian Commander General Diaz gather in discussion. Closeup of Marshall Ferdinand Foch. Marshall Joseph Joffre talking to U.S. Army General Pershing. King Victor Emmanuel and General Diaz reviewing troops. Field Marshal Haig posing with a group of Generals. Marshal Ferdinand Foch and Marshal Philippe Pétain together. Georges Clemenceau greeting French officers. U.S. Secretary of War, Newton D. Baker, passes by a line of French soldiers and is seen using binoculars in the field. American General Bliss (Tasker Howard Bliss), U.S. representative on the Supreme War Council, speaking to a woman as other officers stand by. Closeup view of U.S. Army General Robert Bullard, Commander of the First American Army. General John Lejeune, Commander of U.S. Marines, speaking to a group. Kaiser Wilhelm II with his heir, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, in front of a building as the Kaiser speaks to a German officer. German Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg with General Erich Ludendorff. German military band leads large column of German soldiers marching on a road. Long line of German soldiers walking up a turning road. British soldiers improving roads and transporting supplies. British soldiers and cavalry riding on horseback. Long line of British soldiers marching through trench and through a bombed out building. British soldiers marching on road. Allies, British and French forces on the move. U.S. General Pershing addressing a huge crowd of soldiers in an open field area. Lines of American soldiers marching. Colonel Teddy Roosevelt watches as U.S. Army soldiers advance. Italian Army soldiers marching and ascending a hill. Huge artillery piece being towed on a road.
Following bold attacks by German forces against English Channel ports in France, French General Ferdinand Foch orders a counter attack by all Allied armies. The film then depicts a montage of war scenes, growing shorter and in quicker succession as the film proceeds. Allied soldiers advancing across open battlefields on a broad front during counter offensive following German attacks against English Channel ports in France, during World War 1. Soldiers drop and take cover as shells explode in open field areas. Dead horses next to a destroyed wagon. Soldier running across open fields. German soldiers firing Maschinengewehr (Schwarzlose) M. 7 (Schwarzlose MG) machine gun. Allied gunners firing French 75 field artillery pieces. Allied soldiers carrying wounded on stretcher. Allied soldiers lifting and carrying shells from stacks of shells along their lines. A shell explosion close to the camera. German soldiers taking cover at upper edge of a bomb crater. One is struck and rolls backward. Allied soldiers wearing ponchos and firing machine gun. Soldiers with an artillery shell. German soldier falling back down embankment. Dead German soldier lying beside a knocked-out German machine gun. Ground level shot from trench or ditch of Allied soldiers emerging from trenches "over the top" and running on battlefield. Explosions on battlefield. Allied soldiers emerge from underground bunker with wood framed door. French soldiers marching on battlefield beside destroyed trees. French soldiers going over the top from trenches to advance in battle. Destroyed trees all around. Capture German soldiers marching along a trench. French soldiers carrying wounded soldier on litter. Trench with numerous bodies of dead soldiers. French soldiers hastily wheeling a wounded soldier on a cart. Numerous scenes of wounded French soldiers, some walking and bandaged. Flamethrowers being used on battlefield areas. Lines of multiple flamethrowers in use. French soldiers marching in a town. Some are supporting other soldiers and some hold rags to faces (possible gas attack victims). Schneider CA1 French tank moving in underbrush. French soldiers load and fire artillery. Heavy siege guns and howitzers being fired including an Italian siege howitzer Mortaio da 210/8. Dead German soldier on ground. French soldiers digging trench beside bodies of fallen soldiers. Shell being loaded in artillery gun. Explosions in valley as seen from high ridge overlooking battlefield. Heavily bandaged wounded soldier being carried by French soldiers and medics. Group of German prisoners; some bandaged. French carrying more wounded on stretchers. A French railway gun (Canon de 340 mm) on railway mounting is fired. Allied cavalry soldiers on horseback galloping across streams, some towing empty caissons that bounce going over embankments at high speed. Allied soldiers in trench. Large group of Allied soldiers taking cover in large bomb crater and then charging up and over the top through smoke screen.