Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War 1. Breguet Br14 taxiing across field. Spad airplane taking off. Salmson 2A2 taxiing. Trimotor triple-tailed Caproni bomber taxiing. Salmson 2A2 taking off. United States Air Service fliers, of the !st Pursuit Group, including those of the 27th Aero Squadron, pose at Rembercourt Aerodrome. As the camera pans across them from left to right, some of their aircraft are also seen behind them, including SPAD XIII #7 , and at the very end, SPAD XIII #13, the aircraft of the 27th Aero Squadron Commander, Captain Alfred A. Grant (distinguished by its checkered cowl ring). Front view of Salmson 2A2 aircraft. French officers pose in front of two-seat Spad XVI aircraft.
United States ships en route to France during World War I. United States destroyer Little underway in Atlantic Ocean. Men on board the ship. Artillery on board the vessel as waves wash over the gun. Explosion occurs at sea. Two officers look through binoculars. Sailors on the bow of the destroyer.
United States ships en route to France during World War I. United States destroyer Little underway in Atlantic Ocean as it lays smoke screen during a drill. Thick smoke rises. A ship in the foreground. United States sailors on board the destroyer Little. Men wave and eat.
United States Ships en route to France during World War I. United States Survivors from the torpedoed USS President Lincoln boarding the U.S. Army Transport Great Northern, at Brest, France. U.S. Naval Officers wearing life jackets chat aboard the ship. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. Men with binoculars hung around their necks talk to each other.
United States Ships en route to France during World War I. A dirigible in flight as it escorts a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Smoke rises from a ship.
United States Ships en route to France during World War I. Allied Curtiss HS-2L seaplanes in flight as they escort a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Aircraft in flight.