Closeup views of U.S. 128th Field Artillery troops firing French 75-mm guns at Le Cotes de Forimont (France) on September 27, 1918, during World War 1. Views of the gun breech, as shells are inserted, fired, and casings discharged.
U.S. 105th Field Artillery troops at Etraye (France), celebrate the Armistice Day on November 11th, 1918 marking the end of World War 1. U.S. flag is raised. U.S. 4th Infantry, 3rd division troop march through Bacharach, Germany. An armed guard patrols.
Armistice Day, 1918. United States troops raise the American flag on a tall radio tower erected atop a damaged church in France.The soldiers stand at attention and salute as the flag is raised at end of World War 1.
Armistice Day, 1918. U.S. Army 28th Division greets German troops near Dampvitoux in France at the end of World War I. A village with small houses near Dampvitoux. The American Army greets German troops. They celebrate the end of the war, shake hands, and share cigarettes. A German soldier lights up a cigarette for an American army soldier. American and German troops raise hands, smile, and applaud. An American soldier trades caps with a German soldier.
U.S. Nurses from wartime service units parade on Red Cross Day, in May, 1918, Washington, DC. Views of nurses in white uniforms and others in black, parading on the streets, accompanied by military bands. Red cross flags fly from various places along the streets. A mass of red cross flags near a reviewing stand. Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, walking with Naval officer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, inspecting rows of uniformed U.S. Navy women Yeomen (F) on a field in Washington DC. Behind Roosevelt, is Admiral William Shepherd Benson, the first Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), accompanied by Major General George Barnett, Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. The tower of the Post Office Building is visible in background. The women yeomen parade on the field, watched from the sidelines by Secretary Daniels and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, who is conversing with Admiral Benson. The sequence closes with women U.S. Marines, in uniform, on parade. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
German assault on Allied forces during the 1918 Spring Offensive (also known as the Kaiserschlacht or “Kaiser’s Battle”) in World War 1. German Sturmtruppen (“Stormtroopers” or shock troops) soldiers in position on the trench, stepping on the fire-steps. Explosion from artillery fire in the field. German soldiers climb up from the trench going "over the top" into no-man's land battlefield. German soldiers crouch to avoid getting hit by artillery fire exploding near them. German Stormtroopers rise from trenches and dugouts, begin to advance towards Allied position. German soldiers running through barbed wire. Sturmtruppen (shock troops) holding hand grenades (Stielhandgranate) raid a trench. A German soldier tossing a grenade.
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