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German army units move towards battlefront in France during World War I.

A large group of German infantry marching toward the front in France, during World War 1. Some horse-drawn supply wagons move along with them. Horses pulling wagons with heavy machine guns on them. Others pulling artillery pieces, caissons, and supply wagons. German troops resting on side of hill pose for the camera. Their arms are stacked. Troops stopped for a meal break. Change of scene shows German troops and supplies moving through a war-torn French village. View of destroyed buildings in the village. German infantry marching briskly along a road.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675029656
Wreckage of a crashed German plane at a field in France during World War I.

Wreckage of a crashed German plane at a field in France during World War I. Soldiers and people gather at the crash site. The captured German pilot surrounded.

Date: 1918, July 15
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029959
American troops set up defensive positions and communications in France during World War I.

Film starts showing and American soldier atop a hill in France during World War I. He is hatless and looking through a periscopic telescope mounted on a tripod. Next, American troops are seen preparing defensive positions at the base of a slope. They are using picks and shovels. Not far behind them, in the background are buildings of a French village. Closeup of soldiers in their entrenchment. One wears a headset and kneels by a field communications device. A lieutenant, smoking a pipe, comes to him with a log book and hands him a paper dispatch to transmit. The soldier transmits the message using a telegrapher's key. The next scene shows two soldiers at another communications site, near a tall slender transmission pole, rigged up with guy wires.

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030272
American Army Convoy moves under artillery shelling in France during World War I.

Opening scene shows American troops in the far distance, moving across open terrain in France during World War I. Some are on a road closer to the camera position. Next, an American unit, with horses and wagons, is seen pausing to reorganize its gear and supplies. View, again, of the American troops in the far distance, with smoke rising from a shell strike near them. More views of shells striking and white smoke spreading low across the terrain. Troops on horeseback and in wagons, coming from the shelled area along the road below the camera position. Multiple shell bursts striking closer to the camera. Suddenly, American troops with their wagons begin to move the opposite direction along the road (towards the area being shelled). One shell strikes right on the road, and other nearby. Scene shifts to group of American soldiers firing a Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 3 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030273
American troops treat wounded soldiers and place them in an ambulance in France during World War I.

During a lull, American soldiers help comrades wounded by German shelling during World War 1. in France. They support ambulatory soldiers and carry another on a stretcher, along a road past a caisson and dead horses (and possibly dead soldiers). Next, soldiers carry wounded on stretchers from a defensive position littered with debris, from enemy shelling. An officer stops to check a completely covered soldier (dead) lying on the ground. Medics in a protected gully treat wounded soldiers and then experience some difficulty placing them on litters into a field ambulance.

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 2 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030274
American soldiers served food at a field kitchen in France.

American troops served food at a field kitchen in France during World War I. Troops form chow-line and get their food. Scene shifts to a rustic wooden building serving as a local Headquarters. The date, "1916" is displayed in the wood on the porch roof overhang. Sentries at the entrance, salute officers as they exit the building. An American and two French officers are looking at a map and conferring in front of the building. More join the discussion. A closeup shows an aviator in flying garb, pointing with his arm as he holds and refers to the map. An American field grade officer in a side cap is listening intently. A French officer in steel helmet is behind him.

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030276