The Saint Mihiel Drive, France, in First World War. U.S. infantry troops make their way across recently captured trenches. Several bodies of fallen soldiers are covered and lying near trenches. U.S. soldiers carry and assist their wounded. German prisoners carry their wounded in a blanket and on a stretcher as they are escorted under armed guard to the rear. American and German soldiers are all smiling.( No doubt glad the immediate battle has ended.) Medics attend wounded. A U.S. soldier on stretcher smokes a cigarette and imagines being tended by a pretty nurse at the base camp.(Cartoon illustrates his thoughts.) ( World War 1. WWI. WW1)
The St Mihiel Drive, France, World War I. Animation shows U.S. troops pinching out the German occupied salient in the Allied lines. U.S. troops advancing across the battlefield. They run to bring machine guns into the fray. Three U.S.soldiers with machine gun in a field. One soldier feeds the cartridge belt of the gun as another fires. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
American soldiers collect bits of wreckage from Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt's airplane, where it crashed in Chamery, France, on June 14, 1918. They place these items on the grave of Lt. Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, where he had been buried by German aviators who also placed the inscribed wooden cross seen in closeup. View of the soldiers surrounding the grave with bared bowed heads as one stands at attention. Next, a Chaplain is seen reading from a prayer book as he conducts a brief funeral service. A Colonel stands next to him along with a group of soldiers wearing overseas caps and trench coats. Some of the soldiers place items on the grave and straighten it up. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The Aisne Operation of World War 1 in Montmirail, France. Civilian refugees carry households on horse carts and flee war-torn areas. French women and children, and some older men walk along carts on road. Horse and mule driven carts. Woman and child sit on a cart above hay stack. Women stand under trees along road to rest. Horses and oxen graze beside them. View from behind of fleeing civilians with horse carts on road.
The Aisne Marne Operation in France. United States 4th Infantry troops march around bend of road in Village of Sergy, France. A building with partially destroyed roof at side of road. An American artillery unit is resting at the side of the road with its horses, caissons and artillery pieces. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The Aisne Marne Operation in France. American officers and a French Army officer use a concrete slab, in rubble of destroyed building, as a table, where they lay out maps and discuss tactics. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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