Chemical warfare activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) during World War I. Troops of the 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Force in France. Livens gas projectors are placed around trenches. 318th Infantry troops let out a poisonous gas. Smoke rises from the explosions on the ground. The troops fire rifles from a camouflaged areas in the bushes. A thick smoke with the poisonous gas over the fields.
Chemical warfare activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) during World War I. Troops of the 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division, American Expeditionary Force in Chaumont,France. The troops stand in front of a truck with their officers. 318th Infantry Regiment troops stand on a field. A band plays. Soldiers are decorated at Chaumont. An officer shakes hands with soldiers and pins medals on their uniforms.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. U.S. soldiers affected by a poisonous gas attack are transported to a base hospital in Chateau-Thierry, France on 15 August ,1918. Gas attack casualties in the AEF (American Expeditionary Force) during World War I. Injured soldiers on stretchers lined up in front of the hospital.
A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare during World War I. A division chemical officer explains the construction of gas-proof shelters. Unit gas officers and non commissioned officers report back to their organizations. Soldiers and animals become accustomed to perform their daily duties wearing gas masks. U.S. Army Troops march on a field with horses. Both the soldiers and the horses wear gas masks. The soldiers with horse-drawn artillery on the field.
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.
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