U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on their way to the front lines during World War 1. They descend a stairway beneath damaged bridge and proceed through a town. One soldier slogs into a trench filled with debris, mud, and water. Then more troops work to clear it of mud. One soldier smoking a cigar as he reads a letter from home. He has some care packages at his feet in brown paper wrapping. A view across No Man's Land, where Germans hold a hill nearby. U.S. soldier uses a periscope to look at the area. Closeup of the soldier and periscope. Other views of the U.S. troops in the trenches. One using a pair of binoculars. View of the German-held hill across No Man's Land. Barbed wire and obstacles outside the trench. Army cooks working at a field kitchen under camouflage nets. A cook stirs soup, stew, or a hot drink in large vats of a portable, wheeled kitchen. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) passing through a French town on their war to the front during World War 1. Mounted Artillerymen accompany horse-drawn caissons and artillery pieces. View through archway of town building shows canvas covered Army wagons moving through the town.Teachers and school children watch as the American troops pass on a roadway.Closeup of the children waving at the soldiers. The artillerymen passing through a village. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A U.S. soldier of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) standing near a hut, hears a gas alarm and dons his gas mask. View of a U.S. camp with huts. The soldiers assemble in response the the alarm and all don gas masks. They run up a hill. View from a trench, at a tree, line of gas shells exploding in a field. Soldiers crawling across the trench. Gas drifting across the tree line and soldiers walking through the area. Camera pans across the wooded area, showing the tops of most trees blown away and many trunks laying on the ground. Two couriers carrying messages run through the drifting gas. Scene shifts to a field hospital dug into a hillside. Several soldiers sit on benches. Two medical corpsmen carry a wounded soldier out of the hospital, on a stretcher. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. soldiers during the Grand Offensive on the Western Front during World War I. Prisoners of war, mostly German, in a stockade. Close-up views of German prisoners of war. Buildings in the background. Medics, soldiers and officers standing. Carts passing across a field in the background.
Film 'Camouflage' demonstrates various camouflages used by U.S. soldiers during World War 1 to deceive the enemy. An American Army soldier points at various peep holes on a camouflaged scrap heap. The soldier lifts an opening on the scrap heap and brings out a rifle. Soldiers with dummy heads behind a wall and above trenches. A man gives finishing touch to dummy mannequin heads made of paper pulp.
Demonstration of various camouflages used by American Army soldiers during World War I. United States soldiers in small shell holes. A soldier places a Trench Periscope in a stump. Bark of a tree used as trench periscope. The soldier removes platform from the base of the tree.
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