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America mobilizes for World War I and confronts demobilization afterwards

Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 48 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063340
American observation balloon descends after being hit by German plane during World War I; plane is shot down; pilot captured.

An American observation balloon in France during World War I. The observation balloon descends as it burns after being hit by an enemy plane. The burning balloon descends as it emits smoke. American soldiers fire anti aircraft guns at the enemy plane. The plane being hit and it descends. The enemy plane in a field with U.S. soldiers around it. The German pilot survived and is seen seated on the ground with an apparent facial injury, surrounded and captured by American guard.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042391
A French propaganda dramatization during World War 1; French troops erecting barbed wire and recovering unexploded shells

A French propaganda dramatization about the events leading up to World War I. A French woman stands next to a sign that reads ' France '. A German officer holds up a note related to the Treaty of Frankfurt. He tears it in half, burns it and laughs. Wooden poles in shape of numbers for year 1914 seen burning in flames. End of dramatization. Actual footage of French soldiers erecting barbed wire fences. French soldiers move in a line down a ravine. Together with an American soldier, the French soldiers work in a field and uncover three unexploded bomb shells.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: French
Clip: 65675042488
U.S. 5th and 6th Marine Regiment leave the trenches at Montreuil and depart for rest camps and Marine officers pose.

U.S. 5th and 6th Marine Regiment depart for rest camps in France during World War I. U.S. Marines leave the trenches at Montreuil and depart for the rest camps. Trucks and cars loaded with U.S. Marines. The troops on a road. Marine officers including Captain K.E. Rockey, Major T. Holcomb and Lt. C.B. Cates pose. Trucks loaded with U.S. troops.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021510
Breguet 14 A.2 bomber releases 75 mm bombs on ground targets during training exercise.

Breguet 14 A.2 bomber flies over a target area, shortly after end of World War 1. 75mm bombs explode on the ground. Buildings and hangers at Aerial Bombing School Cazaux, Gironde, France.

Date: 1918, December 30
Duration: 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675022375
Philippe Petain reviews French 410th Regiment upon return to its base for brief rest, during World War I

Marshall Philippe Petain reviews the 410th Regiment of French Army, upon return to its base, for brief rest, during World War 1, in France. He ties a unit citation flag to a staff. He kisses a soldier. He talks to a lady standing besides him. The lady bows. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675024138