Numerous cranes at work unloading supply ships at a terminal in Bordeaux, France, during World War 1. Railroad train moving flatcars through the terminal. Rails crisscrossing the terminal. A soldier directs operations on the busy terminal. Workers rolling barrels across the yard for loading into rail cars. Two men on a motorized tow truck,stop at a field kitchen set up on the dock and receive food in their mess kits. Soldiers are gathered around the steel cans containing hot food. A man rides down with a crane load of supplies that crews quickly move away for transport to the troops.
From "The Battle of the Somme." British Essex Regiment soldiers wash themselves up at a wayside pool in France during the Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of Seaforth Highlanders assemble for a roll call. Soldiers lined up for the roll call.
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) training in France during World War 1. Soldiers pull small mountain gun on wheeled carriage. They then remove it from the carriage, and one carries the barrel and another carries the mount and trails to firing location where they reaasemble it and begin firing it, with one placing shells in the gun and the other aiming and firing. They proceed to fire the gun while officer and other soldiers observe. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) soldiers firing a mortar during training in France in World War 1. The mortar team members pass a shell from one to another, cleaning, and arming it on the way. The last man drops it into the mortar and it fires. Immediately afterwards, as if in response to a gas alarm, they .quickly don gas masks then resume firing. A cluster of explosions occurs not far away. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. Army training for American Expeditionary forces (AEF) in France, during World War 1. A demonstration about how to load and fire a 6-inch mortar. A soldier screws a fuse into a mortar shell to arm it. He then fastens a firing lanyard at mortar base and moves away to fire it. Shell impacts with explosion. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Several American soldiers carry a 240mm trench mortar shell from a dugout, at a defensive position in France during World War 1. They deliver it to a mortar crew, standing by with their 240mm mortar. After loading the shell, the gun crew loads its gunpowder charge from the breech and makes adjustments to the mortar. They then raise its barrel to a near vertical position. After making a last minute adjustment, the gun crew members quickly leave the site and remotely fire the weapon with a lanyard. Next, an explosion is seen in the distance as the mortar shell strikes.
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