The United States enters World War I. A convoy of trucks loaded with American Expeditionary Forces moves to the war front in France. Soldiers on foot advance to the battle field. Soldiers fire guns at the enemy position. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The United States enters World War 1. Men of the United States 3rd Division march towards Chateau Thierry. Soldiers of the United States 2nd Division advance to the war front. Soldiers loaded onto trucks as they move through a French town towards the front. French soldiers on side of the road applaud as they pass. Soldiers in trenches with guns. U.S. soldiers fire M1917A1 water cooled Browning machine gun. French 320 mm railway guns being fired. Soldiers put on gas masks and commence firing small trench mortars.. Soldiers fire at the enemy from the trenches. Their rifles have fixed bayonets. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Newspaper headline in Washington post reads 'United States and Germany at War'. Civilians recruited into the army. American pilots of the 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron, in France, with their Spad aircraft. American airplane production factories in operation, with manny women war production workers seen assembling aircraft. People celebrate in the streets at end of World War I at time of armistice. Airplanes, under command of General Billy Mitchell bomb obsolete warships in demonstration of aircraft power in warfare. 1920s: Postwar flyers and stunt wing walkers perform in the roaring twenties. Developments and improvements in parachutes, and view as stunt men parachute from high buildings and airplanes. Aircraft flying forest fire patrols. Aerial view of burning forest fire below. Lieutenant Colonel Arnold commands emergency airlift and drop of food to snowbound Native American Indians in American Southwest, in 1932. World War I scene of American 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron Spad airplanes taking off, in France. Lieutenant Colonel Hap Arnold with his family, including two young boys and a young girl (his sons and daughter) and his wife.
Captured German propaganda film designed to encourage the German population near the end of World War 2. The closed Theater des Volkes (Theater of the people) in Berlin is seen at it's start. Steel gates are being pulled across the entrance of the Deutsches Opernhaus (German Opera House). Steel gates are drawn across the entrance to the Schiller Theater on Bismarckstrasse in Berlin. A sign announcing the open hours at a play house, is covered by a cardboard. Likewise a sign at an opera theater is covered. (Narrator states that Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Reich Minister of Propaganda, has been given the title: "Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War.") City trams are diverted to carry war supplies. View of men loading boxes into one. A tram pulling rail cars loaded with freight. An automobile being towed by a tram. Morale boosting slogans posted in various places. (one reads "Relentlessly determined to win victory." Another reads "With the Leader (Fuhrer) to Victory." Joseph Goebbels, addressing a rally of armaments workers in the Rhineland District, tells them (according to the Narrator) "Before we admit the enemy to German soil, and submit ourselves to his will, we will first work our hands bloody and work to our last breath." The assembled workers applaud enthusiastically. Men and women over 65 years of age are mobilized to help with the war effort and seen engaged in light manufacturing. German miners coming off shift volunteer to dig trenches and prepare earthworks. The receive tools and march to a work site. Views of men digging defenses in East Prussia where it became urgent as the Soviet army drew near in October, 1944. In another similar scene, many women are seen working alongside men building defenses. A group of Nazi officers pose for pictures ostensibly working to also dig fortifications. A huge civilian work force is seen digging deep and wide ditches to stop or delay invaders.
World War II United War Fund Campaign in Muncie, Indiana. A board reads 'Buy U.S. Defense Bonds and Stamps now'. U.S. Saving Bonds sign in a doorway. The sign reads 'We are buying'. 'War and Community Fund' members seated. A banner in the background reads '1942 United War Fund Campaign'. President Odell, fund president, and others seated in front of banner examining paperwork. A woman goes through files.
U.S. Army 25th Division Liaison Psychological warfare team (Psy War) near Kumwha valley in Korea during the Korean war. A Psy War team in the fields near Kumwha. A Chinese interpreter Ee Boo Yen speaks over a hand mike. The vehicles of Psy-War team. A loudspeaker is set on a tripod. U.S. Corporal Roger Mohr speaks into a mike and makes a tape recording of it. A functional tape recorder. U.S. Private First Class Jospeh Sisto works on the tape recorder. A loudspeaker. A team jeep is parked on a filed in the front lines.
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