American and French Army officers, on horseback, salute as a French and American infantry parade on a field in France during World War 1. The American and French flags are carried and various contingents of troops carry their respective identifying colors. Mounted officers accompany their units. General John J.Pershing reviews the joint French-American parade with French President Raymond Poincare and French Prime Minister Paul Painleve. French and American staff officers stand in the background. Animated map show the U.S. flag being overlayed on a smoldering Europe. A U.S. Stars & Stripes shield. (Note: Interestingly, only infantry units participate in this parade. No cavalry, or artillery are involved and rifles are the only weapons seen.)
American President Woodrow Wilson heads for France to negotiate peace between Germany and Allies. The President's flag flying at mast head of USS George Washington. Captain Edward McCauley Junior, Commander of USS George Washington and Rear Admiral H. S. Knapp converse with each other. Commander Pekins looks through binoculars. Commander Roesch, Chief engineer of USS George Washington smokes a cigar and laughs standing on the ship deck. Captain W. R. Pratt and Rear Admiral H. S. Knapp on the ship deck. The President and First Lady, Edith Galt Wilson, aboard the ship. The President looks through binoculars. A sunset in the Atlantic ocean. President Wilson converses with reporters on the ship's deck. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Allied prisoners in the European Theater during World War I. Prisoners at a Central Powers' prison camp. British and French prisoners relax and eat at the camp. A Russian prisoner smiles as another raises his hat. Two men talk and shake hands. Food being served to the prisoners. The prisoners dance for recreation as others look on. A group of Allied prisoners march in France.
A freighter in foreground,and a troop transport ship, docked at a U.S.Army Transport Service Terminal during World War 1. (A large oceanliner seen berthed on opposite side of the terminal.) U.S. Army troops jam the lower decks of the troop ship as she prepares to get underway to France. Three twenty-man life rafts hang on the side of the troop ship and an American flag flies at her stern. Scene shifts to American Expeditionary Forces boarding a very large Navy transport ship at Hoboken, New Jersey. Some troops with all their gear, climb a steep gangway to an upper deck, while others, below, walk a level gangway to a lower deck.
The upper deck of the SS Leviathan, carrying American Expeditionary Forces to France during World War 1. Formerly the German ocean liner, Vaterland, she is the largest ship afloat, and carries 12 thousand troops. This footage shows the U.S. Navy commissary Officer inspecting various functional activities related to care and feeding of the crew and troops aboard. He checks sides of beef in cold storage of the meat locker. He samples a pie in the bakery; and inspects the galley. Next sequence shows Army troops forming two chow lines as they come down into the mess area, carrying their individual mess kits. Mess personnel serve the troops, who then proceed to long tables where they eat.
Life aboard the SS Leviathan troopship, carrying 12 thousand American soldiers to France during World War 1.The largest ship afloat, she was formerly the German ocean liner, Vaterland. Soldiers in regular sleeping compartments lie on vertical bunks, some stacked 3 or 4 high. View of the Sick Bay on the ship where patients have less crowded conditions. A Navy medical officer makes rounds, checking each patient. A medical technician is seen sterilizing instruments in a steam autoclave.
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