French soldiers removing communication wire from huge spool. Soldiers climb poles to install wires. They raise and install a tall radio antenna. Team of French soldiers unspools many strands of wire and runs them through a trench. Soldiers carrying the multiwire bundles over their shoulders as they move through a trench. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French soldiers and engineers repairing roads in France during World War 1. They lay a number of poles to form a corduroy road. In another scene, soldiers use shovels and wheel barrows to patch holes in a road. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
French soldiers firing a Saint-Etienne model machine gun in a field in France. One soldier waits with a new strip holding 24 rounds of 8mm Lebel ammunition. As the previous clip is done firing, he inserts the new one, and the gunner continues firing. Behind them another gun crew is firing a Maxim machine gun. Next, French gunners are seen firing Hotchkiss Mle 1914 machine guns. Data appears on the screen comparing the machine gun output from the mobilization to 1917. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Camera pans assortment of different French hand grenades lined up in a row. (one falls over.) Scene shifts to a man inserting percussion fuses into F1 grenades. Next sequence shows World War 1 French soldiers behind sand bag barriers as they practice the technique for throwing hand grenades. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Stacks of artillery shells at an outdoor munitions depot in France during World War I. French soldiers are seen stacking cases of shells. A French officer walks beside a railroad train of open cars stacked high with shells, ready for transport to artillery units. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
Red Cross women present food to engineer and firemen of a steam locomotive parked at a station in Potsdam, Germany, during World War 1. Next, they are seen giving food to new soldier recruits in the box cars of a train behind the locomotive. The train is then seen moving with the men inside the box cars waving as they proceed to begin military service for World War I.
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