Aerial view of target ship sinking after being bombed during tests of bomber capabilities against warships, in 1921, as part of General Billy Mitchell's demonstrations of airpower. Views of U.S. Navy battleships firing heavy guns at sea.
The Greco-Turkish war, circa 1921. Men preparing ammunition, weapons, and explosives.Women sewing and knitting. Women carrying supplies. Stockpile of supplies. Women driving oxcarts loaded with supplies for the militia. One woman with baby on her back, as she leads oxen. Turkish Nationalist militia moving supplies up hills in Anatolia. Turkish Nationalist cavalry riding up steep slopes. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk with members of his officer staff, standing on mountain overlooking battleground. Shell explodes near entrenched Turkish troops. Turkish gun crew firing a Vickers machine gun, and others advancing in the field. Battle scarred buildings on side of a hill.
A parade to primarily advertise the new Fordson Tractors. The rally includes several Road Graders attached to Fordson tractors.Heavy trucks with Fruehauf Trailers loaded with goods and people.Tractor drawn earth scoops,maulers, thrashers,and several industrial grade vehicles. Rally moves down the wet snowy streets with streetcars,trams and other vehicles moving on other side of road.1921.
Bombing demonstration by U.S. Army Air Service DH4 aircraft under command of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The target is Battleship USS Alabama, in September, 1921 in the Chesapeake Bay, United States. Army flier is seen checking security of a bomb under wing of aircraft. USS Alabama underway in the Chesapeake Bay. Aerial views from United States Army Air Service planes in flight over the battleship. USS Alabama is hit by a bomb. Later it is hit by a phosphorus poison gas bomb. Finally it is hit by 2000 pound bombs. The USS Alabama rolls over halfway, in shallow waters.
Civilians crossing steel Bridge across the Rein (Rhine) River between Ruhrort and Homberg, Germany, under observation by armed French troops in 1921. The bridge is partially obstructed by barbed wire obstacles deliberately placed. The roadbed is paved with stone blocks and has a rail line in it's center. The civilians appear to be heading to work. As they leave the bridge, heavy industrial facilities, including smoke stacks can be seen in the distance. View of waterway from bridge, showing several commercial side-wheeler steam vessels. French troops man a machine gun emplacement.
Entente Powers intervention in Russia during World War 1. Slate identifies Commander of British Forces General Henry Owen Knox. (Research indicates he was an honorary Brigadier General circa 1918-19, and may have been the ranking officer with British Forces aboard ship while en route to Russia.) He smokes a cigarette and talks with another British officer on the ship. (Note: the Commander of the British mission in in Russia during the Allied intervention was Major-General Alfred Knox.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)