Ruins in Seicheprey and Hamonville in France during World War I. A damaged building identified as Officers Mess (Cuisine des Oficiers). Several U.S. Army officers emerge from the Mess. A squad of U.S. soldiers marches down the road. A destroyed clock tower on a building . Ruins of buildings and houses. A soldier walks past the city ruins.
Soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) 168th Infantry Regiment (42nd Infantry Division) prepare soil with rakes and hoes, and plant vegetables in a garden in Badonviller, France, during World War 1.
British General Sir David Henderson decorates American Generals in Tours, France during World War 1. He and two staff officers stand beside a table, in a grassy field in the town. Numerous local spectators gather at the edge of the field to observe the ceremony. One staff officer picks up an award citation from the table. Soldiers stand in the background. AEF photographers record the event as General Henderson decorates U.S. Army Brigadier General James Harbord, and shakes hands with him. He then decorates U.S. Generals: Harts; Edgar Jadwin; Langfitt; Connor; and Roackenbach; Major General George S. Simonds; General McCaw; General William Wallace Atterbury; General Dawes; and General McCoy. General Henderson, also decorates seven non-flag officers during the ceremony.
A Frech military unit salutes as an officer gets off a train. Dignitaries greet the officer. Soldiers with their belongings walk in a street. Civilian recruits in a bus proceed for an Army reception center. Military officers around a microphone at a camp. Soldiers gathered to hear the speech. Soldiers salute the French flag. (World War II period).
Tractors and plows made in a French factory. A manufacturing plant. Worker inspects a Lanz Bulldog tractor. Tractors lined in a field. Men drive the tractors ahead for work. Workers plow a field. Unassembled parts of tractors and plows at the manufacturing plant. A train car loaded with tractor and plow parts. Men operate a wheat cutter to harvest wheat in a field.
August 1944: U.S. soldiers get off a Landing Craft on the French coast. Soldiers on U.S. battleships. U.S. officers discuss among themselves. Soldiers move across the beach. Soldiers sit outside an abandoned unfinished German pillbox. They examine German artillery. A camouflaged German gun IMPLACEMENT. A U.S. Landing Craft hit by a German radio controlled flying bomb. The charred and destroyed craft on the beach. Soldiers unload heavy equipment and vehicles including jeeps and tanks from Landing Crafts. U.S. battleships in the background. Blimps in the sky. Soldiers move across a street. Soldiers in trucks. Engineers construct an airstrip through a vineyard. Heavy machinery and equipment used to remove the rubble and bushes, as well as to level the ground. Military trucks and vehicles on the road. (World War II period).
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