A division commander of Chemical Warfare Service tells assembled World War 1 trainee soldiers that, properly trained, they should be able to perform their duties, in simulated combat, for at least one hour, in full protective gas masks, without loss of efficiency. Soldiers seen training in field wearing gas masks. Officer in charge of gun crew is wearing new diaphragm microphones so that gun crew can hear while wearing their gas masks. He drills gun crew with commands.
Chemical Warfare Service training in the United States during World War I. An officer addresses a group of soldiers, giving last minute advice as they prepare to depart for active combat in France. He discusses persistent and non-persistent agents and conditions of temperature inversion favorable to gas attack.
Chemical Warfare Service training of U.S. Army trains in the United States during World War I. American Army soldiers wearing gas masks attempt to identify chemical agents as they are discharged on a field. The Division is deployed in trucks and on foot. Soldiers move forward in a line around a hil and along a muddy road. Soldiers lying in foxholes as cloud of gas approaches. One soldier swings a gas alarm ringer round and round to alert everyone. Other soldiers immediately don their gas masks. Later wind conditions allow them to rest. But the enemy fires gas shells into their midst anyway. So they must don gas masks again. A patrol goes out and encounters mustard gas. They check wind to avoid contact with it and move upwind.
Notable African American persons in the United States. Educator Mordecai W. Johnson sits along with his two children and reads a book at home in Washington D.C. Mordecai Johnson, his wife, Anna Ethelyn Gardner, and two of his children along with some other children reading and singing together. Hampton University coach of athletics, Professor Charles H. Williams at an interview in Hampton, Virginia. Publisher Isaac Fisher at his desk.
Notable persons in the United States. Famous African American tenor singer and accompanist Mr. Luther King and Mrs. King are interviewed and he sings. African American educator Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune autographs a book and speaks to camera in Calhoun, Alabama. In Nashville, Tennessee, financier and business man James C Napier and Mrs. Napier pose for the camera.
Notable African American composer and teacher Dr. John W. Work (John Wesley Work III), seated at the piano. From a few different angles he is seen playing the piano. John Work stops and writes sheet music in a book at his side as he composes or arranges.
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