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German artillery shells Allied positions in France during World War I
View from German front lines, as their artillery bombards Allied positions in World War 1. As shells begin to strike, some Allied soldiers are seen silhouetted against the sky, in the background, as they leave their trenches for safer positions. A battery of German 21-cm Mörser guns. Closeup of one firing. American soldiers firing a heavy artillery piece. An Allied camp with soldiers, horses and mules. Their gunners are firing a French 75 artillery piece. Scene shifts back to the German lines, where German soldiers in a bunker are firing at rapidly advancing Allied troops, spread across a wide field. German soldiers firing an Austro-Hungarian Schwartzlose M.07/12 machine gun. Allied troops running across the field of view. Two German soldiers in a trench, watch as several other German soldiers retreat back through brush and wire,towards their trench, and fall to Allied gunfire before they can reach safety. Scene goes black and then shifts to German infantry climbing out of a deep trench and running forward, over downed barbed wire, up a small hill, and moving along a zig-zag trench. Next, a German infantryman is seen lying down as he probes to cut through barbed wire in a mass of Allied obstacles. Other German soldiers jump up and throw hand grenades over the barriers. The German infantrymen then advance through the barriers. Scene shifts to German soldiers stringing wire for field communications. A German soldier speaking on a field telephone
German troops fire artillery shells and gas shells at Allied positions in France during World War I.
German gunners rapid firing a 77mm field piece. Explosions in field. German gunners firing Krupp 15 Cm gun on shielded carriage. German gunners in gas masks loading gas and demolition shells into a Krupp 15 Cm gun. A huge explosion. German gunners load and fire a "Big Bertha," howitzer. Artillery shells exploding in distance
Advancing German troops are subject to heavy Allied shelling during World War I
German troops being shelled heavily by Allied artillery as they advance in France during World War 1. German soldiers rush out of their dugout and move quickly through a trench, and then across No-Man's Land, where smoke rises from exploding shells. Three German soldiers firing a Maxim machine gun from dug-in position. A tremendous explosion near the camera. German troops running around and through a huge crater and hunkered down behind a dirt hill, that they climb, as another tremendous explosion occurs just over the hill. Scene changes to German troops advancing through dried mud boulders and across a field, as what appear to be gas shells, explode nearby. Camera pans across the gas fumes. A German tank seem dimly in background. Heavy black smoke clouds rise from German soldiers using flame throwers. More gas shells exploding as German soldiers run past in foreground, avoiding the clouds. Series of gas shell explosions from Allied barrage. A British Mark V tank with name "Erni" painted on it, maneuvering. German gun crew picks up their Maxim machine gun and runs forward. German troops running forward with gas shells exploding in near background. Advancing German soldiers using flame thrower. German troops in deep trench, with others seen silhouetted against light sky, as they run across a ridge in background. View from low hill of German troops running across No-Man's Land and climbing over a fallen tree as they ascend the hill near the camera. German troops running past bomb and shell craters as they advance. French soldiers, taken prisoners of war, are escorted along a road near a French village. Final scene shows some American prisoners being escorted through the village.
Vice Admiral Henry B Wilson visits a fortress on the coast of France, with members of his staff, at the end of World War I
Vice Admiral Henry B Wilson, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in France, and about 20 members of his staff, visit a coastal fortress. American sailors walk along a an area overlooking the site's high walls. Camera pans to the left toward a group of Naval Officers climbing a tall berm that runs below the higher wall. The head of the group is Vice Admiral Wilson. A Navy Captain, in lighter color uniform, is acting as a tour guide. He pauses as the remainder of the visiting party catch up. The group poses. The fort wall and tops of buildings appear in the background. Admiral Wilson is flanked by the Captain tour guide and a Captain from his staff, in blues. All members of the party seem amused at being photographed by a cinematographer.
Entire crew of the battleship Oklahoma in formation on deck during World War I.
A U.S. Navy commander and a Lieutenant Commander pose with a number of other officers on the deck of an anchored U.S. warship during World War 1. Low mountains and hills in the background. Aerial views of the U.S. Navy Battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37) showing the entire ship's company on deck on deck in dress uniforms. Aerial view of the Oklahoma's stern clearly shows five 14 inch guns, three mounted in a turret on deck and two in a turret above. (The main armament of the Oklahoma consisted of ten 14inch guns mounted in 4 turrets - two forward and two aft. ) A U.S. Caldwell-class destroyer, in camouflage paint, underway in the harbor, at very slow speed, leaving practically no wake. (Note: The USS Oklahoma was one of three U.S. oil burning battleships stationed at Berehaven, Ireland, to guard trans-Atlantic troop convoys against a possible breakout of the German Battle Cruiser Force.The other ships were the USS Nevada and the USS Utah.)
Ships of the U.S. Navy Battleship of Division Nine, in the Firth of Forth, Scotland, World War I
A sailor, in foul weather gear, leans on the barrel of a heavy gun, aboard a U.S. Navy ship, and looks through a telescope toward a submarine cruising on the surface. U.S. Destroyer, Manley (DD-74) in camouflage paint, at anchor. U.S. Battleship Texas, anchored. U.S. Battleship, Florida, with a support vessel at port side. Starboard view of USS Florida. Forth rail bridge over Firth of Forth visible in distance. In a different location, perhaps the United States, a U.S. Destroyer, with other ships in background, is seen through a cloud of sea birds wheeling about the photographers ship. Periscope of a submerged submarine leaving wake as it moves underwater.
