American soldiers watch as an Australian instructor demonstrates how the Lewis machine gun is light enough to be held and fired by one person. A soldier on the ground firing the gun in prone position. Two Australian soldiers climb a platform erected above a trench, where a Lewis gun is set up on a tripod. They fire the gun. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Barbed wire and trenches in snow during World War I. American troops advance out of trenches under cover of smoke screen. U.S. Army troops fire large howitzer under camouflage cover. Incoming artillery fire strikes close with great explosion. Troops moving uphill, in the open in snow.
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.
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