A German observation plane descends and crashes in the European Theater during World War I after a dogfight with a French aviator. View on ground of French troops and citizens gathered around the crash site and viewing the crashed German aircraft.
French Chasseur-class 4-stacker destroyer plowing through heavy seas. Arquebuse-class destroyer and smaller torpedo-destroyer boats are also seen underway. Sailors on deck of a French warship rotate a 450 mm torpedo tube into firing position. A French dirigible on patrol for submarines overhead. A submarine underway at periscope depth, making waves as it goes.
Regarding Female French heroes in World War 1. Pictures of Joan of Arc and Jeanne Hachette. French solders line up and a French officer present a medal to a woman at a ceremony. The woman with the medal. Various other women with medals. Nuns and an old woman with a medal. A girl in a bed at a hospital. A female patient in a bed. French soldiers line up at an award ceremony the Court of Les Invalides. Women line up to be honored at the ceremony. General Joffre presents medals to the women, who then review a parade of French soldiers. Soldiers march past the honored women.
Film 'Camouflage' demonstrates various camouflages used by U.S. soldiers during World War 1 to deceive the enemy. An American Army soldier points at various peep holes on a camouflaged scrap heap. The soldier lifts an opening on the scrap heap and brings out a rifle. Soldiers with dummy heads behind a wall and above trenches. A man gives finishing touch to dummy mannequin heads made of paper pulp.
Demonstration of various camouflages used by American Army soldiers during World War I. United States soldiers in small shell holes. A soldier places a Trench Periscope in a stump. Bark of a tree used as trench periscope. The soldier removes platform from the base of the tree.
Demonstration of various camouflage materials and techniques used by U.S. Army soldiers during World War 1. French women prepare Raffa grass for camouflage. They cut burlap into camouflaged screens. Women weave screens. These screen are made of chicken wire and burlap. Group of men mix camouflage paints. French men and women paint strips of burlap. Product placed on drying shed.
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