Archduke Francis Ferdinand's funeral in Vienna, Austria. His assassination led to the outbreak of World War I. The caisson bearing the coffin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand moves on the streets followed by royal guards. Pall bearers unload the coffin from the caisson. A large number of soldiers in the streets of Vienna.
Outbreak of World War I as a consequence of Archduke of Austria-Este Francis Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo. Troops gather in Germany on the bidding of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Soldiers leave Berlin. Soldiers of the Alexandria Regiment march. Family members bid farewell as new recruit soldiers board a railroad train and leave for a war front. Smiling soldiers. A huge crowd at a platform to bid farewell to the soldiers. The train carrying the soldiers pulls away.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops in a jeep. Other soldiers nearby. Flak bursts in the sky. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers man anti aircraft guns during German bombing raids. Mechanical operation of antiaircraft tracking, sighting and timing devices. Two soldiers look through an instrument on a tripod stand. Other soldiers nearby. Soldiers load and fire an anti aircraft gun. Aircraft in flight. The soldiers handle antiaircraft shells. A soldier near the wreckage of a downed German aircraft.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers man searchlights during German bombing raids. Soldiers near a searchlight. Mechanical operation of the searchlight. The shutters in front of the lens of the searchlight open. The searchlight is mechanically rotated. The shutters close. The searchlight is positioned. It gives out a beam of light at night.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. An aircraft in flight. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers mechanical operate antiaircraft tracking, sighting and timing devices. Several soldiers look through instruments on tripod stands. Two soldiers look through an instrument on a tripod stand. Two other soldiers look through a different instrument. A soldier looks through an instrument. Two soldiers look through an instrument. A soldier with earphones stands nearby. Soldiers man an antiaircraft gun. Other soldiers nearby. Antiaircraft shells are picked up, passed and loaded in the antiaircraft gun. The gun is fired. Aircraft in flight overhead. Flak bursts in the sky. People around piles of dry wooden sticks.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers in a forest. They fire a mounted gun from a dugout. A downed aircraft.
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