A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare in World War 1. Gas discipline reduces casualties and insures efficient operation of normal activities. A platoon commander inspects troops before they enter gas chambers during training. The troops wearing gas masks enter the gas chamber in a line. Soldiers remove their masks after the drill.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. Organizations in a division training area during World War I perform drills while wearing gas masks. United States troops wearing gas masks fire artillery. Cavalry soldiers and horses with gas masks during mounted action. A division commander addresses assembled officers during a training inspection.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. United States troops wearing gas masks undergo training with gas masks in the United States. They fire artillery. An officer wears a diaphragm gas mask which enables his command to be heard by the gun crew. A divisional chemical officer makes an inspection of the training for the division commander. He gives last minute advice to an assembled group of officers. Troops wearing gas masks undergo a drill on a field. U.S. troops are deployed to France and are seen marching toward front line positions during World War I. The Germans launch a cloud attack of poisonous gas. The troops lay down in the field with rifles in their hands. Soldiers rest covering themselves with a large sheet.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. United States troops train in the United States during World War 1 and simulate falling prey to German enemy gas shells. An explosion on the ground with smoke surrounding the area. U.S. soldiers fire rifles. The enemy fires mustard gas shells. The troops advance on a field in formation. A soldier passes through gassed underbrush and is affected by the poisonous gas. A topographic map is marked with the words "GAS" where the gas is present.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare during World War I. The "Collective Protector" enables a general and the staff to work on their maps and orders without gas masks at the Division Headquarters. Two soldiers outside the headquarters wearing gas masks. They guard a low entrance doorway and enclosed tunnel with a heavy, flexible door designed to keep out gas. A soldier lifts the flap of the door and enters. Officers converse with each other while looking at a map on a wall. Soldier stands by rotating a handle on a device continuously. It has a long wide pipe connected to it, perhaps managing fresh air intake or air exchange. U.S. soldiers wearing gas masks load ammunition onto trucks. "Enemy" aircraft flies overhead throwing a cloud of poisonous gas that quickly envelops the area. A soldier wearing a gas mask fires his rifle into the air at the aircraft, through the heavy smoke screen. Gas sentries neutralize the gas around a dump. They dig in the ground with pick axes and mattocks, and then spread a white powder over the area. They then cover the area with a thin layer of the dirt they had dug up.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare in World War I. Dramatization of a division chemical officer going over chemical warfare situation with the chemical officer from a new division. The officers seated inside a tent exchange notes. Gas casualties are taken out of ambulances. Disciplined soldiers return to rest areas at the Division Headquarters. A soldier removes his mask and goes to sleep.