Launching of the new French Cruiser, "Languedoc," to replace the "Leon Cambetta," torpedoed during World War 1, by the Austrian submarine U-5, on April 26, 1915, in the Adriatic Sea. Shipyard workers in unison, knock out supports holding the new ship in place, and she slides down the ways into the water. (WWI; WW1)
Two Holt Artillery Tractors Tow guns past watching troops during World War I. British and French troops are visible (some casually lying on the ground in front of the camera). Several soldiers on horseback are seen and many canvas-covered troop trucks, in the background. A white tent is pitched on the other side of the path. A motorized ambulance is in the background.
French soldiers building a wooden-reinforced trench during World War I. Wooden planks stretched across the trench opening. Boards being handed down to a worker in the trench who appears to pass them toward a tunnel opening. Buckets handed back and forth from the trench diggers to the soldiers outside the trench. French officers supervise the work.
French troops moving a large gun barrel on a small gauge railway during World War 1. Men ride in open cars behind train engine. Troops assembling a 370mm railroad howitzer and then raising and lowering its camouflage-painted barrel. Railroad trains passing through woods. A French 320mm railroad gun covered by camouflage netting. Gun crew members clamber aboard. Army gunners rapid-firing a French 75 artillery field piece covered by camouflage net. French soldiers passing spent 75mm shells from a wagon and tossing them into a huge pile. View of the pile and of the larger munitions depot in which it sits. A small gauge rail is seen along the ground in the depot. French artillery and caissons being pulled by horses, past the pile of spent shells. Turret of a railway howitzer turning. Exploding shell from the howitzer. French gunners firing a 155mm field howitzer (Canon de 155 Mle 1917 Schneider C). Views of a French 400mm railway howitzer firing. What looks like a small old navy cannon firing in the field. French coastal batteries firing. A 320mm rail gun firing. No man's land and shells exploding in distance. A rail gun at the rear of a freight train, firing. Numerous scenes of French rail guns of various types and sizes firing. (WWI. WW1)
View of several fallen French soldiers lying in a trench during World War 1. Scene shifts to a French medical corpsman treating wounded hand of a soldier in a trench. Medics and soldiers searching trenches for wounded. Teams of stretcher bearers carrying wounded on their shoulders. Ambulatory wounded French soldiers make their way along a trench to a first aid station, followed by stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier, whom they carefully move into a dugout. Change of scene to behind the lines in a French town, where wounded are loaded into an ambulance. View of the ambulance driving past a war-damaged church building. (WWI. WW1)
French soldiers being decorated in a field during World War 1. Marshal Philippe Petain presents individual and unit awards to french soldiers. Closeup of French unit guidon with awards attached. Petain converses with some of the honored soldiers. (WWI. WW1)
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