A Colt Model 1911 and its various parts. The semi-automatic pistol including magazine spring, slide, magazine catch, trigger assembly, and barrel are shown being assembled in an animated sequence, part by part.
Various American equipment and weapons of World War I. Incendiary hand grenades used by Allies during World War I displayed in United States.
A U.S. soldier throws two exploding incendiary hand grenades during tests in the United States in World War 1. . Closeup of an incendiary canister. The tester (unseen) taps the fuse end of the canister and lays it down on a rough corrugated surface. It smokes before exploding and creating an intense flame that melts the canister. Molten remains of the device.
An American soldier is shown, among buildings at a military base, kneeling beside a rifle set on a stand for test firing into an earthen berm nearby. He places a round into the chamber and closes the bolt. He then opens the bolt and retrieves the round (which slips from his hand and drops to the ground). Next, two different size rounds of ammunition are shown.
U.S. Army testing of weapons during World War 1. An American soldier fires a Browning M1917A1 .30-caliber Water-Cooled Machine Gun while sitting in a hard wooden chair on a porch. Two soldiers test firing a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. Another soldier test fires a Vickers Mark I water-cooled machine gun.
An American soldier, at a U.S. Army base in World War 1, displays a Lewis machine gun without a shroud. He holds it at various angles for the camera. Next, a soldier is seen test firing the Lewis gun set up on an improvised wooden stand in an open field. View from beside the soldier as he fires the gun. Another view from behind him as he fires downward into a ravine.
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