U.S. Army testing of weapons during World War 1. An American soldier fires a Browning M1917A1 .30-caliber Water-Cooled Machine Gun while sitting in a hard wooden chair on a porch. Two soldiers test firing a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. Another soldier test fires a Vickers Mark I water-cooled machine gun.
American soldiers in an Army passenger truck, ride into a field at an Army base in the United States, during World War 1. They step from the truck, remove boxes of ammunition, and a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. They set up the machine gun and prepare to fire it. Scene shifts to closeup of a soldier back at the truck, opening its compartments and checking the contents.
An American soldier, at a U.S. Army base in World War 1, displays a Lewis machine gun without a shroud. He holds it at various angles for the camera. Next, a soldier is seen test firing the Lewis gun set up on an improvised wooden stand in an open field. View from beside the soldier as he fires the gun. Another view from behind him as he fires downward into a ravine.
American airman standing in observer's cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 aircraft, during World War 1, demonstrates the flexibility of twin Lewis machine guns installed on a Scarff ring. He rotates the twin guns through various angles and elevations as he moves up and down, himself, in the open cockpit. He then turns his attention to a single Lewis gun mounted atop the upper wing. He removes the gun's ammunition cannister and replaces it with another.
Krupp 77 mm Field Gun with split trailing carriage. Austro-Hungarian gunners stake the split parts of carriage to ground. They maneuver the barrel through range of azimuth and elevation.They then insert shells and demonstrate rapid fire capability of the gun (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
demonstration of German Krupp 77 mm field gun being fired at maximum elevation by remote lanyard. Same weapon propped up to increase elevation above normal maximum and fired by remote lanyard. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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