28th Escadrille fliers of French Air Service examine a Salmson 2 biplane during World War I. Clothes seen hanging on a wire in the background. The aircraft has a painted picture of a running elephant on it. Captain Paul Daum of the 28th Escadrille inspects the rear, twin, ring-mounted Lewis Guns, moves them around, and adjusts them. The fliers including Captain Paul Daum stand in front of the plane.
28th Escadrille fliers of French Air Service with a Salmson plane during World War I. Two French fliers climb into the Reconnaissance plane and take off. The plane seen in flight. Group of French 28th Escadrille and U.S. Army 79th Division Infantry (operating as observors) seen smiling and talking in front of a SPAD (Societe Provisoire des Aeroplanes Deperdussin and Bleriot) French airplane. American flag hung on the wing. They talk and share cigarettes. View of just the American group in front of the aircraft, posing for the camera.
Two fliers -- Pilot Lieutenant Kelly and observer Lt. Jay Paul Harman -- approach a Spad XI with U.S. Army Air Service logo on it during World War I. They consult over some notes and then board the aircraft, takeoff, and fly on an observation mission. Spad XI flying overhead. The original Spad XI seen landing and taxiing. A Frenchman of the 28th Escadrille runs up to meet the plane and is handed something (a negative?) by the rear gunner/observer, Lt. Jay Paul Harman. Next scene shows U.S. and French military personnel gathered reviewing photo images brought to them by a runner. The officers include American officers Lieutenant J. P. Harmon, Lt. John S. Beekley and Lt. R. T. Maddock and Frenchman Captain DeSaint Cerau.
High altitude aerial reconnaissance view of a German area during World War I, taken from some kind of (unseen) aircraft. Trenches and or fences on fields below.
A French railroad gun captured by the Germans during World War 1. German soldiers stand near a damaged French railway gun. "Against the Big Bertha" is written on the gun, in French. Two soldiers sit on the gun barrel. Other soldiers stand on the railway gun and pose for the movie camera. (This is a German film with English caption describing the gun as one of the heavy rail guns intended to silence our long range guns firing on Paris.)
Second Battle of the Somme in World War 1.German prisoners of war assembled in fenced areas of a field. British Mark V tank in background. Allied troops move a small artillery piece down from peak of a hill. American soldiers carrying towels as they enter a building to bathe, in a rear area camp.Some of them are seen inspecting their clothing for pests before putting it back on. Others are rewrapping their leggings and putting on boots.Troops marching up a hill. Others coming through a gate engraved with name: "Ecole de Preservation." They march over a bridge from the gate. A young soldier being interviewed.He wears a ribbon on his uniform for a decoration he may have just received. He salutes an officer who stops to talk and shake hands with him.
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