View of farm field with crops in a valley in area of France, relatively unscathed during World War 1. War torn areas of Villers-Tournelle and Noyers-St. Martin. Buildings with roofs blown off and some with only framing left. Ground covered in rubble. Two Allied soldiers walking past the remains of buildings. Remains of a church.
Two U.S. soldiers in a foxhole, set up a French Hotchkiss Model 1914 heavy machine gun, North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War I. Several American soldiers crawl across a field and set up another Hotchkiss machine gun on a tripod. One of the supporting soldiers runs forward to give the gunners two ammunition cannisters. Scene shifts to another team setting up a Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun, on a tripod. Soldiers with ammunition are seen in background. Several American machine gunners step through their own barbed wire defenses to set up another Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun. A machine gun crew firing a Hotchkiss Model 1914, pointed skyward. One feeds strips of 8mm lebel ammunition into the gun. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
U.S. soldiers in fortified dugout, operate a Hotchkiss Model 1914 heavy machine gun, during World War I. One gunner feeds strips of 8mm lebel ammunition into the gun, while the other fires it. (Each strip contains 24 rounds of 8mm Lebel ammunition.) Change of scene shows a lone machine gunner operating a Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun as an antiaircraft weapon. He fires a 24-round strip and then obtains another one to rearm the gun himself. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
U.S. 2nd Field Signal Battalion troops (AEF) getting their food in a chow line at an Army field kitchen alongside rail cars at Maron, France, during World War 1. They step aside as a steam locomotive arrives on the track next to them. Some soldiers sit on railroad equipment as they eat their meal. Several others cook over their own fire. Change of scene shows German prisoners of war being marched to the rear, and through a town near Catigny. A few are wounded, but ambulatory. One is carried on a litter, by his comrades.
German prisoners of war (POWs) held in an outdoor wire enclosure, by U.S. First Division troops behind the lines near Catigny, France, during World War 1. Closeups of two German prisoners, each with a U.S. Army interrogator. The second one is being spoken to by a U.S. Army lieutenant. View of several prisoners, including a German medical corpsman, attending a wounded on a litter. German prisoners being searched and processed by two French soldiers under supervision of a U.S. Army officer. U.S. troops in the background. U.S. General John J. Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) steps from a headquarters building, behind the lines near Catigny, France, accompanied by Major General Robert L. Bullard, Commander of the U.S. First Division, and staff. They proceed along pavement in front of several buildings. Next scene shows Pershing and Major General Bullard entering a wooded area, where U.S. troops line a path and several German prisoners are faced away from the path. The American generals look over some German officer prisoners drawn up in a small group on one side of the path. They continue past a wire enclosure containing German prisoners, on the other side of the path.
Mules, of the U.S. Army 2nd Field Signal Battalion, stand on a railroad platform, waiting to be loaded aboard a train, in France, during World War 1. Soldiers tending them stand nearby. Sacks of food sit on the platform. Soldiers coax a mule across a ramp into a train car. In another scene, 1st Division troops load war materiel aboard open cars of a train. A group of soldiers works to roll a French 75 artillery piece up a ramp onto the train. Another large group works to roll a heavily laden wagon up on to the train. (WWI. WW1)
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