British soldiers walking amongst enemy trenches in a no-man's land in the Balkans, during World War 1. They are reconnoitering after an allied artillery barrage that destroyed Central Powers defenses in the area and left many dead. British Highlanders are among the Allied troops seen walking through the totally destroyed defenses. Surviving Central Powers soldiers are taken as prisoners of war. Austro-Hungarian Hussars carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. A group of ambulatory wounded POWs, headed toward a field medical facility. British medical corpsmen treating a wounded soldier. View of field medical station where British medics are treating wounded. A soldier writes something on the bare back of another as they prepare to move toward the rear. Wounded lying on the ground in litters, as British medical Corpsmen attend to them. British soldiers carry wounded to truck for evacuation. German officers walking at the head of a group of German, Turkish, Austro-Hungarian, and some possibly some Bulgarian, prisoners of war. View from above of British officers on horseback leading the disarmed prisoners along the street of a town, where British soldiers stand along the curbside watching as they pass. Mounted British soldiers move along the sides of the walking POWs.
Cartoons about U.S. Thrift Stamps in the United States during World War I. Chalk-Talk type cartoons : Girls wash dishes. A mother and a father sit in a living room. The father says 'They're helping the government and saving money'. A caption below a table 'Washing dishes is easy now that the girls are saving up thrift stamps'.
View from a high point, possibly a building, of sailors in training at Great Lakes Naval Station, near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois, in World War 1. They march from closed three column abreast formation into a spread formation for calisthenics. They follow a leader in performing exercises. Closeup of the exercise leader in action on a platform. About 20 sailors running a race, as others watch from sidelines. Teams of sailors playing a type of race passing a basketball under their legs. Large group of sailors boxing in pairs. Two sailors in a boxing match, encircled by other sailors, and refereed by a Marine officer in shirtsleeves. Change of location to Key West, Florida. Brief glimpse of U.S. marines in military combat maneuvers at a sandy area. As they move forward, an explosive charge ignites nearby.
Military training exercises during World War 1. U.S. Navy whale boats beach on a sand bar and discharge a detachment of sailors armed with rifles, who wade ashore, in Key West Florida. Marines take up prone positions in sand on the shore and fire rifles. Several Curtis N-9 hydroplanes parked in water at the shore. Some of them taxi out and take off. Two submarines in the background.
A group of U.S. Marines in bayonet training, at Key West Florida, during World War 1. A long line of marines crouch near bayonet cloth training dummies, suspended from crossbars. These marines are able to move the dummies and parry bayonet thrusts, by means of attached padded control sticks. A line of marines wielding rifles with bayonets, charge the target the targets, while the controllers parry their bayonet thrusts. Closeup of a marine with bayonet dueling with a controller who parries his thrusts. Scene shifts to armed marines jumping over obstacle wall, bayoneting a dummy on the ground, and moving on. A body of water and some tents are seen in background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A contingent of U.S. marines in training with rifles, at Key West Florida, is seen in a formation of two rows. They execute positions with their rifles in accordance with the manual of arms, at the commands of their leader. They present arms and follow other instructions. Next, They are seen breaking into squads, and reassembling again, as they march in close order drill. Scene shifts to marines, standing in a field practicing the proper motion for throwing a hand grenade. They carry packs on their shoulders, but have no rifles. They repeat the grenade throwing drills in unison upon command of their leader. Next, they kneel on one knee, and execute a grenade-throwing drill from that position. Closeup of marines executing grenade throw motions from kneeling position. Two marines practice these techniques in the confines of an open wooden box with a barrier simulating a trench ridge.
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