French infantry assembled before advancing to occupy trenches in World War 1. The pick up supplies and are next seen marching in full battle gear towards the front lines. Officers on horseback follow leading platoon carrying the unit flag. Long line of infantrymen follow behind. Another view of the infantry on the march. The troops enter their trenches. They are dressed warmly and as they progress into an area of woods, snow is seen on the ground. A sign at the trench line reads: "Bois Carre." (WWI. WW1)
French soldiers positioned in a cave opening near Maurepas, Yvelines region, during World War I. Barricades in front of the dug out. A French soldier sits in the cave opening with a machine gun. Another soldier near him loads the machine gun.
The soldiers of 369th infantry regiment 93rd Division of the U.S. Army (also called the "Harlem Hellfighters") during World War I. The African American soldiers at their positions at the western front. The troop walking through channels of trenches. Soldiers having a meal in a battle trench.
Surf-boarding at Basque Coast. Many views of surfers carried along the face of breaking wave using a surf-board and riding on waves of water. Surfer standing on top of the board and lying down on his stomach on the surfboard doing body surfing.
This film shows numerous types and models of World War One aircraft in operation. It opens showing Allied airplanes preparing for a maximum air campaign in the battle of Saint Mihiel. View from inside a hanger as its flap opens and men push a Sopwith Camel airplane out onto airfield. Map of St Mihiel. American planes warm up on flight line in predawn, with flares burning at wingtips. Huge numbers of allied airplanes are marshaled on airfields throughout the theater of operations and begin taking off. Among them is a French Morane-Saulnier low wing monoplane. German fliers are seen loading small hand held bombs into the cockpit of their Albatross aircraft. Soldiers in combat on ground in "no man's land" during the battle of St. Mihiel. They take refuge in large shell and bomb craters and try to advance running between them.. Germans fliers dropping bombs, by hand, from airplane. Numerous Allied and German airplanes in aerial dogfights. American planes over clouds. American Observation balloon attacked in sky. Balloon in flames, and trailing black smoke as it falls to the ground. French flag flies at an airfield, where a nosed-over airplane sits, by a hangar, as airplanes fly overhead. Aircraft taxiing about in close quarters at airfield. Large formations of American airplanes flying overhead in a grand formation, following the Armistice, November 11, 1918 Then the film shifts dramatically from World War One to the post-WWII year of 1947. It illustrates the dramatic advances in warplanes since WWI by showing U.S. B-36 bombers and straight-wing F-84 Thunderjet fighters is formation.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh leaves Paris after his trans-Atlantic flight. The USS Memphis arrives to receive him. The U.S. flag on the ship. 'Memphis' written on the ship side. Sailors on the deck. A boat approaches the ship. Sailors standing on the smoke stacks and on deck await his arrival. They watch as Lindbergh boards the ship. The sailors salute as he climbs aboard. They greet and congratulate Lindbergh.
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