Herbert Hoover, head of United States Food Administration (during World War I) visits the Citroen Munitions Factory Plant in Paris, France. He along with Andre Citroen and other dignitaries and workers dine in the Munition Plant mess. Left to right with the dignitaries are: Madame La Gen. Debuyer, Mr. H.C. Hoover, Mr. Loucheur (French Minister of Armament who presided at the dinner), Mr. Andre Citroen of Andre Citroen Ammunition Factory. Men and women dignitaries with Hoover rise during the playing the United States National Anthem (to honor Mr. Hoover) and then sit along with the rest of the workers to eat the meal. Workers and the dignitaries converse with each other during the meal. After the meal, in the Club attached to the canteen, Herbert Hoover with other dignitaries drinks coffee and some smoke cigars. Dignitaries left to right are: Mr. Victor Boret, French Food Minister; Mr. Ernest Vilgrain, French State Secretary of Food; Mr. H.C. Hoover, American Food Commissioner; Mr. Andre Citroen, Owner of Ammunition Factory; Mr. Andre Tardieu, French High Minister in America for French government. Exterior view of the Munitions manufacturing plant grounds and buildings.
World War I Artillery munitions stacked at a factory in the Gironde Estuary region of France. Number of covered French 155 mm howitzers parked in order. Workers remove wheels from the Howitzer. The French 155 mm Howitzers loaded with the help of cranes or derricks onto a freighter in the Gironde River (estuary).
End of World War 1 is celebrated by a jubliant Crowd congregated in Paris streets. People hold flags of United States and France. Women and children cheer the armistice ending World War I. Crowd on and besides the road. French flags on the cars. Bicyclist rides and children run and smile beside a moving vehicle from which the footage is shot.
U.S. 128th Field Artillery troops enter Courouvre in France. Soldiers walk on path of a village. Huts besides road. Guns and ammunition are carried in horse-drawn wagons. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Camera pans across old established Cemetery at Sedan, France. New wooden crosses of fallen soldiers are seen on outer edges of the cemetery, which is otherwise filled with older monuments and stones marking graves of local people. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
The Aisne Operations in Montmirail, France. Civilians on horses and mules on road. Trees besides road. Field in the background along road. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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