Torpedo missile being manufactured in the United States during first World War. Men at a factory work on torpedoes. A man works on a screw with a driver. Inside of torpedo casing shown. Men work on the torpedoes as American flags hang from the roof of the factory. Equipment inside the torpedo. A torpedo on a machine as men turn it from side to side. A small propeller on the back of it behind its fins is seen spinning at high speed.
Torpedoes loaded onto combination truck / rail trailers outside a building at a dock. Torpedoes lined up on the deck of a ship. Torpedoes being hauled aboard a ship. A crane pulls up the torpedoes and places them onto a trailer. Men unload the torpedoes onto the trailer. Nose and tail views of torpedoes placed on the trailer. View of a gun in the hull of a ship being readied. Two views of two different surface torpedoes being fired from the gun, apparently as tests, toward an unseen destination in the water.
U boats underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. Men on the deck of a captured U boat along the side a vessel. American sailors on the deck of a captured German submarine. American flag hoisted on the deck. Men at a naval gun aboard the U boat.
U boats underway in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. A naval gun aboard a U boat being turned around. Barrel of another gun aboard a ship being turned around. Men on the bridge of a ship in the background. A man near the mouth of the gun. Barrel of the gun being moved. Vessels in the background. Men aboard the U boat.
American soldiers enjoying recreation during World War I. Cars pull up outside a recreation building, in snow. A church-sponsored facility for soldiers, seen from outside in snow, with several persons at entrance. American soldiers read books at Salvation Army library. Soldiers read with an American flag in the background. Soldiers leaving a Knights of Columbus Hall. Soldiers wave from the balcony of a Masonic Hall. Soldier plays piano as another sings, at a recreational facility. Older persons visiting with them. Soldier converses with two young women on veranda of recreation facility. Inside, volunteers visit with the soldiers. Older woman invites soldier to sit and chat awhile. Young woman and soldier come into room from the veranda.
A crowd of German civilians is seen gathered in the Lustgarten. But the scene shifts suddenly to the Berlin Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin) in the Grunewald Racecourse. Men in old-fashioned traditional military uniforms march into the stadium, carrying flags of the various German States. They parade around the perimeter of the stadium. Flag of the German Weimar Republic flies over the principal building in the stands. The flag bearers on the field lower their flags, in salute. Next, Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his deputy, General Erich Ludendorff, enter the field, leading several military officers, together with a civilian, carrying a sign reading: "I.G.I.D." They are followed by a long line of civilians. Spectators are on their feet in the stands where some men wave their hats and some women wave handkerchiefs. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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