United States Air Force pickup truck leads a C-141A 'Starlifter' that taxis to a halt. U.S. Air Force signalman signals the aircraft to a halt. United States Air Force unit personnel get off the plane. Unit personnel board buses. Personnel get off the United States Air Force blue colored buses. (Vietnam War period).
French soldiers and airmen gather around a Caproni Ca.3 bomber preparing for an aerial photography mission in World War 1. The identification number "Ca 2318" is stenciled on the airplane fuselage. The men load camera cases and equipment for the motion picture photographer, as officers watch. The Pilot takes his position in the front of the open cockpit as the photographer and second crewman sit side-by-side behind him. The pilot waves as they taxi out for takeoff. The next sequence contains views from the aircraft as it flies among clouds, and then shows Fort Douaumont clearly below, followed by the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse, and environs, including the Meuse River, bridges, buildings, and roads, without noticeable signs of any battles or damage, since the German offensive would not begin until the following year (1916).
First pictures of Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg, the Iron man of Germany, during World War 1. Marshal Paul Von Hindenburg with staff officers descending steps of a government building in Germany. It is winter, with snow on the ground.
Initial German advances in World War 1. German troops entering Luxembourg and Belgium. They are seen crossing bridges (possibly at Remich and Wasserbillig). Local inhabitants stand and watch as horse-drawn German wagons of supplies pass along a road. They pass over a pontoon bridge. Troops and supplies passing over a suspension bridge and then over a pontoon bridge. One wagon carries pine trees with German flags atop them. German army trucks moving over a stone bridge with structures built across it. Imperial high command observing movements of German military forces. Crown Prince Wilhelm (William) of Prussia, appointed Commander of the German 5th Army, is seen in the uniform of a Leib Hussar, with toten kopf (death head) emblem on his fur busby. He converses with his father, Kaiser Wilhelm II. They are accompanied by high ranking German officers. German forces entering Brussels, Belgium.
Allied forces begin their Somme offensive in Dompierre. Allies moving guns and supplies forward in France for the Battle of the Somme, during World War 1. A French 305mm railway gun moving on a railroad, with French soldiers riding on it and several box cars of munitions behind it. German troops, devoid of weapons and battle gear, some with their hands up, scurrying through scarred landscape, as they surrender. Artillerymen lower an entrenched French 240mm artillery gun to near zero elevation and fire it. French artillerymen work on a rail-mounted 520mm howitzer.
German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria walking with uniformed military staff officers behind them in World War 1.
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