U.S. Army holt tractors are hooked up to large wheeled trailers loaded with parts of German 42cm "Big Bertha" howitzers, captured by American Expeditionary forces (AEF) near end of World War 1. Camera pans along the line of tractors. Closeup profile of a Holt tractor with several Army mechanics working around it. Camera pans along tractors and Big Bertha carriers and parts. Camera focuses into rifled barrel of one of the howitzers. Several U.S. soldiers are seen waving to the camera, through the barrel. Several American soldiers climb upon a carrier holding one of the 42cm barrels. One soldier crawls through the barrel. Two soldiers display a 42cm shell casing for the camera. Writing on one of the captured German vehicles reads: "Ersatzbremsflussigkeit (Perglyzerin)" describing substitute brake fluid. The convoy of tractors, led by a staff car and accompanied by soldiers on motorcycles, proceed along the road to Beaune, France. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Red Cross workers in Paris make prosthetic masks for French and U.S. soldiers whose faces have been disfigured during World War I (often from gas attacks). A soldier tries a plaster mold and a women assists. Prosthetic face masks on wall in background.
Red Cross workers in Paris make prosthesis masks for French and U.S. soldiers' whose faces have been disfigured during World War I. Red Cross woman makes plaster molds of the wounded men's face and wax model of the heads from the molds, for use in making prosthetic face masks following injuries such as gas attacks.
Red Cross woman worker making copper prosthesis face masks for soldiers wounded in World War 1 (mutiles). Worker deposits copper on the wax face molds via electrolysis. Wax model of the heads is made from the Plaster molds of the wounded men's face. Woman work with wounded face of the soldier.
Red Cross workers in World War I make prosthetic masks for the French and U.S. Soldiers whose faces have been disfigured (often from gas attacks). Masks on the wall in background. A worker contrasts the face of a wounded soldier with and without a complete artificial face mask prosthesis of painted copper.
German prisoners of war marched to jobs at Etaples. French soldier searches a German. Prisoners lined up in at prison camp.
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