U.S. Army Air Service Lt. Frank A Llewellyn standing beside Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft, puts on flight goggles.Ground crewmen turn prop on Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft.An observer tests machine gun in rear cockpit. Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft in flight. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. Air Service Lt. M C Markham and Lt. L S Powell view the paper iron crosses pasted over bullet holes of Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft.Ground crewmen push a damaged Salmson 2 A.2 aircraft at Dogneville in France. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
155mm guns are assembled at munitions factory in Puteaux, France, by French workers, during World War 1. French 155's are loaded on flatcars at St. Cloud. Two World War I French Generals converse with each other. 155mm guns along with the freight car being lifted and put in place in rail yard. French and American representatives look on. Workers help load the guns.
Herbert Hoover, head of United States Food Administration (during World War I) visits the Citroen Munitions Factory Plant in Paris, France. He along with Andre Citroen and other dignitaries and workers dine in the Munition Plant mess. Left to right with the dignitaries are: Madame La Gen. Debuyer, Mr. H.C. Hoover, Mr. Loucheur (French Minister of Armament who presided at the dinner), Mr. Andre Citroen of Andre Citroen Ammunition Factory. Men and women dignitaries with Hoover rise during the playing the United States National Anthem (to honor Mr. Hoover) and then sit along with the rest of the workers to eat the meal. Workers and the dignitaries converse with each other during the meal. After the meal, in the Club attached to the canteen, Herbert Hoover with other dignitaries drinks coffee and some smoke cigars. Dignitaries left to right are: Mr. Victor Boret, French Food Minister; Mr. Ernest Vilgrain, French State Secretary of Food; Mr. H.C. Hoover, American Food Commissioner; Mr. Andre Citroen, Owner of Ammunition Factory; Mr. Andre Tardieu, French High Minister in America for French government. Exterior view of the Munitions manufacturing plant grounds and buildings.
Artillery and howitzers being towed by a number of trucks, passing through Nantes, France on way to the front during World War I. American and French soldiers standing by. Parked treaded tractors in a line on a roadside with U.S. soldiers in them. Officers on horse carts. Supplies stacked beside a railroad track. U.S. cavalry soldiers emerge from woods on running horses.
World War I Artillery munitions stacked at a factory in the Gironde Estuary region of France. Number of covered French 155 mm howitzers parked in order. Workers remove wheels from the Howitzer. The French 155 mm Howitzers loaded with the help of cranes or derricks onto a freighter in the Gironde River (estuary).