The 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia. Military trucks passing on a street. Mounted troops moving on the street. The soldiers dismount the horses and load the horses onto the trucks. The soldiers on motorcycles and armored cars passing on the street. (World War II period).
The 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia. Soldiers lying in prone positions during their training on the field. The soldiers fire rifles. Other soldiers get off from their motorcycles. The soldiers advance on the field. Smoke screen laid on the field. (World War II period).
U.S. WAC (Women's Army Corps) MP (Military Police) in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia during World War II. Military women of the WACs with MP brassards run from barracks through a gate marked 'WAC Military Police'. WACs march in formation. A WAC stands in front of a traffic sign as others pass.
U.S. WAC (Women's Army Corps) MP (Military Police) in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia during World War II. WACs in fatigues practice judo on a field.
Some 2000 Germans, interned at Fort Oglethorpe and Fort McPherson, are being repatriated after the end of the war, in 1919. They arrive by train at the port in Charleston, South Carolina, where they assemble with their personal belongings. They are assisted and supervised by U.S. Army soldiers. They board the USS Martha Washington transport ship. Another large ship is seen behind her at the pier. U.S. Navy officers and sailors are seen watching as the passengers board. Among the passengers are civilians who had been detained as suspected spies. They are boarding the ship with members of their families. A small child and a babe in arms are seen as well as other children. After boarding, passengers and crew line the deck of the ship. "USS Martha Washington," is clearly displayed on her side. She is seen moving slowly away from the pier and getting underway. to Germany.
American soldiers of the U.S. 90th Infantry Division, walking atop captured Fort Obergentringen, Near Thionville, on the west side of the Moselle River, in World War 2. Next, the Fort's German Krupp 105mm guns are seen firing numerous shells at German positions in Thionville, east of the river. American soldiers with binoculars observe the shell strikes from the fort. Smoke rising from the shelling. [Note: A September 17, 1944 wireless report about the fort's capture , to the New York Times, by Frederick Grahamby, stated that "The fort's name is Gingringen and from 1870 to 1919 it belonged to Germany." However, it is actually Fort Obergentringen (Fort Guentrange) on the hills of Guentrange, overlooking Thionville, and built in 1899.]