Slate notes that women made significant contribution to work force in weapons manufacture during World War 1. Interior of a rifle manufacturing plant in France. Men and women busy at their jobs. Belt-driven lathes and other machinery seen. Workers clean out newly rifled barrels. Others work on wooden parts. stacks of assembled rifles are moved through the factory on motorized carts, and between factory floors by elevator. (WWI. WW1)
French soldiers clean the tube of a 58mm trench mortar and load a shell (bomb) equipped with fins onto the tube. Next scene shows the mortar in a trench, as one soldier lights the fuse and moves away from it. The fuse burning. ( World War 1. WWI. WW1)
French soldiers pull several 75mm wheeled mortars across a field and set them up for operation. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
French soldiers pull a 150mm wheeled mortar across a field and then set it up and fire it. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
French soldiers with a 240mm mortar in an entrenched position. The mortar barrel is prone. A soldier loads a mortar round, with fins, deep into the tube. Everyone steps out of the emplacement, as they prepare to fire the mortar. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)
French soldiers using pack animals to transport parts of 65mm artillery pieces up a mountain during World War 1. They are seen loading an assembled gun at its field location. (WWI. WW1)
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