An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
Promotion of Liberty Bonds in Washington D.C., United States during World War I. Lieutenant Henry Reuterdahl and another officers paint a sign board outside the Navy Building. Men in foreground with the sign promoting the sale of Liberty Bonds in the background. Lieutenant Reuterdahl paints part of the sign which reads ' Sink the U Boat '. The sign has a separate hard cut-out piece in the shape of a German submarine. It moves along a sliding groove so that it can be shown as sinking into the painted waves. Lt. Reuterdahl moves the end of the U-boat cutout up and down showing its motion.
Torpedo missile being manufactured in the United States during first World War. Men at a factory work on torpedoes. A man works on a screw with a driver. Inside of torpedo casing shown. Men work on the torpedoes as American flags hang from the roof of the factory. Equipment inside the torpedo. A torpedo on a machine as men turn it from side to side. A small propeller on the back of it behind its fins is seen spinning at high speed.
United States enters World War I. A map of Europe. Belgian refugees along a road in Europe. Damaged buildings and an explosion occurs. Men aboard a German U boat at a port. An American ship underway at sea. Docks being strafed by Germans and smoke rises. Cars carrying President Woodrow Wilson leaves for the United States Capitol in Washington D.C. Woodrow addresses the Congress and declares war against Germany. People in the streets as they carry banners and American flags. The United States Capitol.
A United States Army officer in the office of the Provost Marshal General, Washington DC, reviews Qualification Record cards received from millions of American men, in response to a U.S. Government questionnaire about military service in World War I. The personnel officer at a desk at the army personnel office. He takes out a qualification record from a drawer. The officer looks at the qualification record of John Thompson from Cleveland, Ohio. He turns around the card and notes down some information. Fingerprinting of a soldier is shown, for inclusion in the man's personnel record. A completed finger print sheet is displayed.
Manufacture of military uniforms in the United States. Men lay out a roll of cloth on a large table. A man cuts the cloth with a machine to stitch military uniforms. Men and women work on sewing machines to stitch the uniforms. They fold the uniforms and make piles of them. Men pile up stacks of uniforms and tie them with ropes into a bundle.
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