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.
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)
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