U.S. 2nd Field Signal Battalion troops (AEF) getting their food in a chow line at an Army field kitchen alongside rail cars at Maron, France, during World War 1. They step aside as a steam locomotive arrives on the track next to them. Some soldiers sit on railroad equipment as they eat their meal. Several others cook over their own fire. Change of scene shows German prisoners of war being marched to the rear, and through a town near Catigny. A few are wounded, but ambulatory. One is carried on a litter, by his comrades.
Wounded German soldier on a stretcher, is lifted from hospital set up behind the lines near Catigny, France, during World War 1. He is carefully placed in a military ambulance by U.S. Army soldiers. Closer to the front, medical corpsmen attend to a wounded soldier lying on a litter on the ground. They treat his wounds and apply a splint to his left leg. Troops in battle gear surround the corpsmen. The wounded man is placed in an ambulance.
View of smiling American troops of 2nd Armored Division eligible for redeploy and discharge on April 21, 1945. They stand next to a captured Nazi German flag in Cherbourg, France. One soldier wraps the Nazi flag around himself. Soldiers at rail of a large troop transport ship at a pier. Soldiers take a wounded man aboard ship on a stretcher. Soldiers and officers at the American cemetery. Soldiers raise their guns to pay respect to the graves. They salute. Wreath on a grave with cross marked "unknown". Soldiers and a few nurses boarding transport ship at dock. (World War II period).
Senator Burton K Wheeler and party including United States officers come out of the Paris transmitter station in France. Officers talk amongst themselves. They get into car and the car passes on the street.
Generals and officers visit Seventh Army CP in Luneville, France during World War II. Major General Louis E Hibbs sits in a car. Another officer also gets in the car with him. The car moves. 63rd Infantry Division, Major General Harry J Collins and 42nd Infantry Division Lt General Jacob L Devers discuss with other officers. Car arrives at the place. Cars parked in the background. Officers and Generals enter a room.
Rail yard in Paris,France. A locomotive approaches the yard . A French worker, Jacques Dupont, operates a locomotive turntable. Another rail worker fills water in the locomotive' s engine. Engineer checks wheels of the locomotive. Dupont and other workers work at the engine. From an anti-communist propaganda piece.
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