Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A target placer moves a target about as directed by a U.S. gunner. A gunner looks down wooden tracks at a model aircraft mounted on a tripod. The tripod moves directly towards the gunner. The gunner fires at the model aircraft. An entrance to the headquarters. 'Photographic Laboratory' sign on a doorway. An airman walks to the door and stops. He removes a film magazine from a stimulated 30 caliber gun camera. He hands the film magazine to a U.S. officer and salutes. The officer enters a building. Finished prints hanging and drying in the laboratory. A soldier carries a print over to an Evaluation Officer. The soldier checks the finished print for hits upon the same from the gunnery practice.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. An instructor and a student in prone positions on the ground fire 30 caliber Lewis Machine Guns at unseen targets. U.S. officers stand around a gunnery test platform. Two U.S. pilots get on the platform. Two 30 caliber Lewis Machine Guns mounted on the platform. The two pilots demonstrate in a twin gunner compartment mock up and a crowd looks on.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A target gunnery range. U.S. gunners fire at paper targets. Hits upon a target. A gunner and a target checker check the hits upon the target. The gunnery range shows gun turret mock ups, sheds in the area, a gunnery range and a target area. Men fire at targets along a bank. The target test area shows models of aircraft being raised and lowered for the gunners to shoot at. A close up of a gunner sighting down the barrel of a machine gun mounted on a post. The gunner fires too short bursts. He replaces an ammunition clip and fires again.
Activities at Second Aviation Instruction Center in France during World War I. A twin engine biplane. Four vertical tail fins with four wheels as main landing gear plus skid bars beneath the biplane. The aircraft taxis. A group of U.S. officers stands around a portable communication center and shows radio equipment and operation. A radio setup in an open filed. U.S. soldiers stretch out signal panels on the open ground. A burning object spirals down from the sky. Another burning object descends. Three soldiers run out and grab a small object just before it hits the ground. A man in the foreground fires signal pistol into the air showering the area in which the men are standing with sparks from the signal pistol.
Testing of Ford Motor Company's prototype 3-ton light tank in the United States. Civilians observe the tank. The tank stationary at a field. The tank moves back and forward on the rough field. A railway track in the background. The tank moves forward. It knocks down posts. A building in the background. Another tank in the background. The tank gets stuck in a deep ditch and is pulled out by another tank. Civilians near the tank. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Manufacturing Ford Liberty aircraft engine in the United States. Silhouettes of workers and machinery. The workers working at a manufacturing plant. Welding of an engine. A worker welds motors. Finished motor (V-12) and the Statue of Liberty superimposed. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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