United States President Woodrow Wilson in Paris, France after World War I. A horse-drawn carriage on the road and crowd lined up on sidewalks. President Wilson, Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General John Pershing, and Peace Commissioner Henry White on horse-drawn carriages leaving. The crowd waving hats and cheering for the visiting Allied leaders.
Crowds inspect World War I captured German equipment. German tanks, cannons, field guns, railroad guns, and gun carriages displayed outside the Hotel des Invalides (129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France).
Wounded American soldiers on litters carried out from a building and placed into military ambulances, during the 2nd Battle of the Somme, in World War 1. German prisoners carrying wounded American soldiers into Ronssoy, France.
America's counter attack in World War I. United States Army soldiers on a field during Battle of Cantigny in France, World War I. Explosions occur and smoke rises. View of low slung horizontal razor wire in front of artillery emplacements. U.S. 1st Division soldiers fire artillery from behind sand bag mounds. American soldiers load a mortar shell and fire it from the trench. Soldiers hang shells through the trench to load larger artillery pieces. With shells being fired overhead, the soldiers go over the top of the trench and begin to cross field. A French tank in the background.
United States Army 1st Division soldiers during Battle of Cantigny in France, World War 1. Artillerymen drag artillery shells on two-wheel dollies to a heavy gun under a camouflage netting. Gun crew opens breech and loads the gun. Gunner rotates controls to elevate barrel into firing position. Change of scene shows batteries of French 75 field guns firing in the open and from camouflaged bunkers.
Aviation activities of American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War 1. Salmson 2A2 aircraft are parked in a field with men seated on the ground in the shade of their wings. A pilot, standing next to a Salmson 2A2, puts on his flight gear while smoking a cigarette. He climbs aboard the airplane which has the red and blue buffalo insignia of the 99th Aero Squadron painted on its fuselage. The photographer- gunner in rear cockpit loads canisters of ammunition on his Darne-built Lewis twin machine guns and checks the movement of the gun's scarff ring mounting. He receives an aerial camera from a ground crewman. Two airmen work on a Vickers machine gun installed beside the nose of the aircraft (synchronized to fire through the propeller). Scene shifts to an aircraft taking off. Camera shifts back to the aircraft getting ready, where a ground crewman pulls the propeller through to clear any hydraulic lock and the pilot starts the engine. The aircraft taxis and takes off.
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