German children gather at a park in Weisbaden, Germany soon after the end of World War I. Two kids performing a dance in front of the other children and the men and women present there. Children applaud. Women give hot chocolate to the children. Young boys and girls in war torn Germany enjoy the entertainment and hot drink.
SA battery of British artillerymen firing 18 pounder field pieces at German forces in the Hindenburg Line, during World War 1. Change of scene shows British soldiers at side of a road as wagons of French refugees and children on foot and with bicycles, flee the combat zone. British troops, horses, vehicles,and a heavy mortar (covered) move through center of a town choked with departing refugees. Views of ammunition train moving across open fields. Stacks of heavy artillery shells at a munitions dump. Wrecked guns and equipment at the front. (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.
British women helping with war effort at home during World War 1. The women workers shovel debris and carry it off in wheelbarrow. They milk cows. Other women watch them. Trees in the background. Women work with heavy hay baling farm equipment and a steam powered tractor connected to a heavy driving belt. Woman stands on top of tractor, near stack. Women pose for picture in front of a tent in a field. They are all dressed alike in white smocks and overcoats. Women spread manure with shovels on fields.
A French ground crewman hands small bombs to another man who stores them in the cockpit of a French bi-wing hydroplane (seaplane) during World War 1. The aircraft is equipped with a large open raeial engine. The propeller appears to be split with one segment in front of the lower wing and the other behind it. Change of scene shows a foldable seaplane suspended from cranes on the deck of a French warship. Crewmen fold the wings aft. Closeup of the aircraft and men rotating the propeller. Next the plane is seen in the water on its pontoons as a pilot standing in the open cockpit fastens an overhead cable to the plane. Aerial view of a convoy of several ships seen from an overflying airplane. A naval port facility seen from the air. Back to the Naval hydroplane, again, as it its being raised from the water by a crane. The pilot stands on one of the large flat main pontoons. Closeup of the plane and pilot as they are lifted high above the water level and deck hands pull the plane over the ship's deck.
View of the buildings, houses, streets and trees in Manila, Philippines. Explosions in the city. Smoke arises from the explosions. Soldiers on military vehicles on the street. Jeeps parked in front of a building. Wreckage in the building. People gather to watch the wreckage. Smoke arises from fire in the background. Men raise the United States flag on the terrace of a building. Houses in a field. High altitude view of the wreckage in the city. Huts and shacks on the field. Women cook food outside the huts. Men and children sit and eat the food. Children play. Men seated on chairs smoke and talk amongst themselves. Liberated civilian internees mingle with United States troops in the streets of the city. Girls come out of a building and walk on the street. They talk amongst themselves. Children watch a tank. A man and a woman talk. A soldier holds two children and talk to them. A thin man stands with soldiers near a tank and smokes. (World War II period).
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