French troops starting cleanup of destroyed railroad station in World War 1.. Women sit in rubble and grieve in front of makeshift cross marking a grave. French troops in chow line, with their personal mess gear, receiving soup. Troops examine bombed area and destroyed buildings in French Town. Woman, accompanied by small boy, pushes a long wheel barrow. Two officers examine ruins. (WWI; WW1)
German air defense forces scramble to intercept British aircraft during World War II. German anti aircraft gunners are alerted and run to man their battery of 8.8cm FLAK 36 guns. Fw-190A-3 fighters take off to engage British aircraft. Glimpse of German pilot in his cockpit. An Me-410 heavy fighter, with cross on its fuselage, seen ahead through his cockpit window. Aerial view of aircraft maneuvering in dogfights at high altitude, generating condensation trails. Another glimpse of a German pilot in his cockpit. Aircraft falling in pieces. An aircraft falls trailing smoke. German gun crew cheering. More fighter aircraft leaving contrails. German gun crew watching the skies. A German Me-109 in flight. Partial view through German aircraft cockpit window of another aircraft in flight, ahead. Scene shifts to flaming wreckage of a British warplane on the ground. A German officer speaking to a British RAF pilot, near the wreckage. He gives the pilot a document. German soldiers surround a parachute billowing on the ground. Scene shifts back to the RAF pilot looking through the aircraft wreckage. He wears sun glasses and a bandage can be seen on his left eye. An armed German soldier guard now stands with him.
Historic vintage aviation and early flight attempt: A man attempts to fly with wings attached to a bicycle like an ornithopter but the wings do not flap. A police officer and several spectators watch the experimental aircraft. An assistant runs behind him. He makes several runs back and forth, to no avail.
The United States enter World War I. General John J. Pershing, Chief of American Expeditionary Forces confers with Marshal Joseph Joffre, Commander in Chief of the French Army during World War I. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The United States enters World War I. French refugees flee from their homes to safer places. People move along a road. Horse drawn carts carry their belongings. People carry their belongings as they move along a rail road track. American soldiers enter a village as people look on. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The United States enters World War 1. Men of the United States 3rd Division march towards Chateau Thierry. Soldiers of the United States 2nd Division advance to the war front. Soldiers loaded onto trucks as they move through a French town towards the front. French soldiers on side of the road applaud as they pass. Soldiers in trenches with guns. U.S. soldiers fire M1917A1 water cooled Browning machine gun. French 320 mm railway guns being fired. Soldiers put on gas masks and commence firing small trench mortars.. Soldiers fire at the enemy from the trenches. Their rifles have fixed bayonets. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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