The Saint Mihiel Drive, France. U.S. artillery pulled by horses being rushed to the front. Artillerymen dig earth to emplace their French 75s. A soldier sits on pile of spent shells generated by the high rate of fire during the barrage. U.S. artillerymen load and fire their field pieces. ( World War 1. WWI. WW1)
The Aisne Marne Operation in France. A U.S. Army staff officer opens door of staff car with 1711 painted on its side. U.S. Army Brigadier General Dwight Edward Aultman, Chief of Artillery of the 5th Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, steps from the car and the staff officer briefs him with a map. Two other soldiers remain in front seat of the car. General Aultman poses with fields behind him. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)in World War I. Several Generals and senior officers of the AEF inspect troops of the U.S. 3rd Army, in France. The officers are mounted on horseback and proceed through the ranks of soldiers drawn up in formation for inspection. One row of soldiers is standing behind their respective machine guns. The Generals seen ready to review the troops in parade. The infantry marches first, followed by horse-drawn artillery pulling French 75 field pieces, support elements consisting of horse-drawn covered wagons, and then troops in motorized trucks and automobiles. View of infantry marching with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. The ranking general saluting the troops from horseback.
British soldiers in France, during World War 1. Sentry in a deep reinforced trench detects gas and puts on gas mask while sounding pedal gong alarm. He closes door of a protected dugout and alerts soldiers, in unprotected dugout of the trench, who don gas masks and come out, as gas cloud drifts over the trench.. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
ITwo officers confer in front of a group of French aviators lined up before a hangar in France during World War 1. Scene shifts to the pilots being given last moment briefing and then running to their respective voisin 3 airplanes parked in a line on grass field. (WWI. WW1)
Historic Meeting of Britain’s King George V with French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, British Field Marshal Douglas Haig, and French General Henri-Philippe Pétain, in France, on the eve of the Armistice, ending World War 1. King George V, wearing black mourning armband, begins to organize them to pose for photographs, at the foot of some stairs. They all do some shuffling to arrange themselves with due respect to rank, etc and end up with King George V in center of front row, with Haig and Petain to his left. To his right is Marshal Foch, French General Louis Franchet D'Esperey and British General Henry Rawlinson. Complete change of scene shows a clean shaven British military officer speaking with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The local city mayor is with them, dressed in ceremonial robes. A statesman, in top hat stands nearby. A uniformed man carries the Mayor’s maces. Next, Lloyd George and the British officer inspect troops, walking between flanks of British soldiers holding shouldered rifles.
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