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German artillery captured by British troops during Battle of the Somme during World War I

British troops carrying two captured German 9.15cm Light Trench Mortars, in the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1. They place them on the ground where an officer examines them and British gunner demonstrates how they work. At La Boiselle, France, British artillerymen, with horses, pull captured German 77mm field guns and limbers. One of the captured guns is seen with writing on it in chalk reading: "Captured by 7th Division."

Location: La Boiselle France
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 32 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048381
Ruins in Place Clemenceau of Fère-Champenoise; French citizens flee town during German advance in World War II.

Damaged and abandoned French artillery guns in position in the Place Georges Clemenceau of the town of Fère-Champenoise (Marne). Dead horses lay on the pavement in the Place Clemenceau town square following battle. Camera pans along to sides of the town square. Numerous dead horses are seen. Shops on two sides of the square are burned out and destroyed, including a restaurant on one corner and the Cafe du Commerce on another corner (Rebuilt and still there today in Place Clemenceau, 51230 Fère-Champenoise). Street sign is visible along N4 road pointing to Connantray-Vaurefroy, 5 km away, and Vitry-le-François, 44 km away. French citizens and refugees evacuating along a country road during Battle of France, with horse-drawn wagons, cars, and bicycles, past occupying German troops on motorcycles and in trucks. French cars parked along the edge of road. One has trouble crank-starting. Others proceed slowly along the road with many belongings.

Location: Fère-Champenoise France
Date: 1940, June
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675073798
A U.S. band leading a funeral ceremony and clergy leading burial ceremony following Battle of Saint-Mihiel in World War 1.

U.S. soldiers near St. Mihiel, France during World War I. A band of American soldiers leads a funeral procession. A caisson moves across a field towards a graveyard. Houses in the background. Newly dug graves in the graveyard. Closeup view of cross at the grave of Major Harry A. Harvey of the 103rd Field Artillery, who died on September 12, 1918. Clergy and soldiers seen during the funeral ceremony for Major Harry Aloysius Harvey and other soldiers killed in the Battle of St Mihiel.

Location: St Mihiel France
Date: 1918, September
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076724
A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions near L'Isle-Adam after the Allied bombings during World War II.

Results of air assaults by the British Royal and U.S. Eighth Air Forces over industrial areas in German-occupied France during Wolrd War II. A storage depot for the German V-1 (flying bomb) and munitions dispersed over an area of 3 square kilometers in the forest near L'Isle-Adam. Walls of not more than half a dozen buildings left standing. Tracks of narrow gauge that ran between the buildings appear occasionally from heaps of rubble. Cradle carts for moving bombs and robots rust by the road way. French work men with picks and shovels carve a path through the rubble. French Forces of the Interior (FFI) soldiers lift a mine while others stand guard with captured Mausers, alert for snipers still hiding in the forest.

Location: L'Isle-Adam France
Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021881
King Edward the Eighth dedicates Vimy Ridge War Memorial.

Scene of Vimy Ridge War Memorial in Pas-de-Calais, France. King Edward the Eighth goes to inaugurate the War Memorial. Military officers gather to see inauguration. King Edward unveils the Figure of Canada on Vimy Ridge Memorial. Large crowd gathered to see ceremony.

Location: Pas-de-Calais France
Date: 1936, July 26
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675034180
U.S. 96th Aero Squadron mechanics line up Dehavilland DH-4 airplanes on airfield in World War I

Activities of U.S. 96th Aero Squadron at the First Air Depot in Colombey-les-Belles, France during World War 1. Mechanics and soldiers push a DH-4 biplane bomber out of a canvas-covered hangar and onto the airfield. Five DH-4s parked on the grass field. The mechanics and the soldiers push two more DH-4 aircraft into the line at the field. The tails of all the aircraft are painted in the French scheme of vertical blue-white-red stripes, with the blue forward.

Location: Colombey-les-Belles France
Date: 1918, July 26
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675070256
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