French Chasseur-class 4-stacker destroyer plowing through heavy seas. Arquebuse-class destroyer and smaller torpedo-destroyer boats are also seen underway. Sailors on deck of a French warship rotate a 450 mm torpedo tube into firing position. A French dirigible on patrol for submarines overhead. A submarine underway at periscope depth, making waves as it goes.
Regarding Female French heroes in World War 1. Pictures of Joan of Arc and Jeanne Hachette. French solders line up and a French officer present a medal to a woman at a ceremony. The woman with the medal. Various other women with medals. Nuns and an old woman with a medal. A girl in a bed at a hospital. A female patient in a bed. French soldiers line up at an award ceremony the Court of Les Invalides. Women line up to be honored at the ceremony. General Joffre presents medals to the women, who then review a parade of French soldiers. Soldiers march past the honored women.
A U.S. soldier brings news of the armistice to troops sitting at their camp. The troops celebrate. They jump and hug each other. They raise hands and applaud. The troops gather and celebrate the news of the armistice by greeting each other and shaking hands. The soldiers discuss the armistice news and walk away. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Views of trenches during World War I. A soldier writes on a pad as he speaks to another soldier at entrance to a dugout in a trench. A French soldier leads several U.S. troops along the trench. Several soldiers peer over the top of the trench toward German lines. Soldiers hide themselves in trenches. A U.S. soldier mans a machine gun nest.
An intelligence patrol of the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) 3rd Battalion, 168th Infantry Regiment (42nd Infantry Division) reconnoiters during World War 1.They are completely covered in camouflage clothing, as they crawl amongst trenches and earthworks of the battleground to observe conditions in "no man's land."
French civilian spectators fill a grandstand and ground in front of it to watch a French military track meet (with some American participation) during World War 1. Longer distance runners are cheered by some spectators as they cross the finish line, one by one, in front of the grandstand. contestants run a shorter race with a close finish. The winner is congratulated by a French military officer. Scene shifts to closeup of Lieutenant Paul Rene Fonk, French Air Ace credited with over 59 enemy planes. He stands in center of stadium, being recognized by the crowd. An American officer is seen standing behind him. Next, a large group of youths perform calisthentics in unison for the crowd. Lieutenant Leonard, of the U.S. Air Service (in athletic garb) converses with Lieutenant Fonk. Other athletes, another U.S. flyer, and a French civilian official stand with them. As they move away, Lieutenant Fonk and other French officers remain to confer with the French civilian official. Another race is seen, next, as runners come past in single file around the track.
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