While World War 1 was already underway in Europe, before the United States Air Service began to build up. Two U.S. DeHavilland DH-4 aircraft taking off. A formation of DH-4s in flight. A DH-4 upside down on the ground with soldiers all around it, including one sitting on a rock. Airplanes attacking a barrage balloon aloft, which burns and plummets to earth trailing dark black smoke. A candidate United States pilot undergoing physical testing. He is placed in a spinning chair and spun at high speed. Another pilot candidate performs a visual test with an array of lights on a panel being lit. Prospective Army pilots in U.S. Army uniforms marching and on a flight line with JN-4 Jenny training aircraft. Cadet turns propeller of a Curtiss JN-4 training airplane and the engine starts. Formation of DH-4 aircraft in flight. Lumberjacks in American northwest area of Oregon or Washington state felling a giant spruce tree after cutting it with a two man saw in the Cascade mountain forests. Massive Logs being transported by railroad to logging mills for eventual use in airplane factories. Men and many women war production workers busy working at an American airplane fabricating plant or factory during World War 1.
XB-48 aircraft taxiing. Engine Mechanic working on jet engines of XB -48. XB-48 taxiing, taking off and landing. A-20 aircraft landing with tractor landing gear. L-4 aircraft landing by Brode system. United States C-47 aircrafts dropping paratroopers. United States A -26 aircraft dropping parachutes. Officers spreading large laced parachute on floor. B-17 aircraft drops parachute.
View of a railroad marshaling yard in the United States, filled with idle box cars. The cars had been idled due to the German U-boat campaigns affecting maritime commerce from the United States to its allies in World War I.
Rubbish catches on fire due to carelessness of people in United States. Supervisor directs worker. Fire doused with a hose. Worker lights cigarette, throws match into trash pile. Man with extinguisher puts out fire. Fire boat named "James Battle" docks. Firemen with fire engine fight fire at an industrial building. Fire fighters direct hoses of water on huge fire. A fire fighter (unit 16 on his hat) and another official discuss.
A poor wooden house in rural United States. View of dilapidated, simple wooden frame houses, some in disrepair, in rural United States. Two AFrican American children riding on horse. An African American woman draws water from a well. African Americano man cuts wood. Black people riding in a horse drawn wagon.
Draftees of the United States Army at an Army camp during World War I. Cooks prepare food for the new recruits in training at an open mess area. Draftees move slowly carrying utensils for food. Cooks give meal to all the draftees, spooning out beans onto plates. Group of World War I soldiers of the United States Army carrying their rifles, march past a bridge. A boy in uniform walks beside them.
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