The Aisne Marne Operation in France. Several Field grade American Army officers of Field Artillery pose before a building in France, during World War One. A Brigadier General stands on steps of the building and smiles. Major General Edwin Burr Babbitt, 4th Brigade Field Artillery, converses with another Major General and a field grade officer. Paper on wall reads 'Signals' and shows insignia of U.S. Fourth Infantry Division. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
British Civil Service Rifles and London Irish contingents march along a road in France, returning from the front to a rest camp in France, during the First World War. Mounted officers leads the troop. Other soldiers march following them on a field. Troops band moving.
Marshall Joffre and General J.J. Pershing talking amongst themselves in a field of France. They discuss about the role of France in the world war.
Shows men who have contributed to greatness of France in the war. President of France, Raymond Poincaré walking on a field. Other officer accompany him. Troops standing on the field. They raise their guns. Antonin Dubost, the president of Senate, stands in front of a house. Paul Deschanel, president of chamber of deputies passing by.
Officers and men of the Australian Flying Corps, who controlled the combat area, in France, where he died, give Ace German pilot, Baron von Richthofen a funeral with full military honors. Six Captains, of their Squadron number 3, serve as pallbearers, and others participate as honor guards. Pallbearers place the flower covered coffin of Richthofen (also known as The Red Baron) on a vehicle for transport to a cemetery at the village of Bertangles, near Amiens, France. There a Priest officiates as the coffin is lowered into the grave. ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) troops assemble in formation and ceremonially position themselves with heads bowed. They then raise their rifles and fire several volleys into the air, in salute to the fallen German aviator. (Reportedly, memorial wreaths were received, for the funeral, from other Allied Flying Squadrons, including one with the words, "To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe"). This was the first of several burials of von Richthofen's remains. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, on the deck of the USS George Washington, nearing France, en route to the Paris Peace Conference, at the end of World War 1. The President looks through binoculars, briefly. A U.S. battleshipis seen steaming ahead to port. The President motions with his hand towards another battleship,while speaking to Mrs. Wilson. (U.S. battleships and destroyers deployed in European waters joined the Presidential convoy as it approached Brest, France.) The camera pans across U.S. warships in the convoy. A dirigible is seen several hundred feet above the convoy. Closeup of the battleship, USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Camera shows French coast and flotilla moving toward Brest. President Wilson, dressed in overcoat and top hat, is seen on deck of the USS George Washington. He stands with Naval officers looking at the flotilla of U.S. warships.
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