American prisoners of war in Vietnam. A news bulletin shows an anchor with a map of South East Asia in the background. American soldiers taken as prisoners by North Vietnam enter a church and take their seats. A priest conducts a service. Numbers on the shirts of the men. They attend the prayer service. Men receive the holy communion at their seats. The prisoners sing hymns at the prayer service. (Vietnam War period).
An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
People celebrate on the streets of New York after the Germans sign the armistice agreement ending World War 1 on November 11, 1918. People cheer and wave their caps. A French couple thanks Allied soldiers for rescuing them from Germany. Allied soldiers lined up in a field in France as U.S. General John J. Pershing decorates them. Troops of the United States 42nd Division march at a parade as General Pershing reviews them. Soldiers carry American flags at the parade.
U.S. troops in France during World War I. They are building a camp. They haul cut trees from the edge of a forest using a truck and trailer, and are seen setting up a new camp using the logs.
Conscripted British men receive personal notices as their names are read at public gathering. The drafted men assemble and march off for training and World War 1 service, accompanied by uniformed officials. Friends and bystanders, including a number of women, walk along beside and behind the new recruits on their way to war.
From a film on "Where and Why Liberty Bonds are made." created during Liberty Bond drives in the United states during World War 1. American flag superimposed as U.S. Army soldiers march in background. Liberty Bond printing workers exit the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington DC during a lunch break. A streetcar passes by on 14th Street SW in Washington DC, in front of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. A large crowd gathers during a Liberty Bond drive as they carry banners that read "Damn the torpedoes, Go ahead -Farragut ". White coated waiters in a U.S. Navy sailor mess hall carry large trays of food from kitchen to mess hall, where sailors are seen eating the meal, seated at long tables. A line of new U.S. Navy recruits pass by a high counter and receive their sailor uniforms. U.S. Army soldiers march on a crowded street as they prepare to go to war in Europe during World War 1.
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