German fighter planes like Focke-Wulf Fw190 take off. View of formation of German fighter planes in sky. View from inside cockpit of German fighter aircraft as they attack and strafe enemy supply lines including U.S. Army positions. Aerial view of enemy positions. (World War II period).
German U-boat crew looking through binoculars. German submarine sets off. View from submarine viewfinder. Inside submarine, operations going on. Ship explodes. Submarine going inside water. German Officer looking through a viewfinder. Bomb falling from a plane, explosion takes place. (World War II period).
Chairman of the committee receives Blue Riband Trophy from representative of Italian line and member of the committee. Chairman of the committee presents the Blue Riband Trophy to Captain Rene Pugnet as the trophy is won by SS Normandie for French Line. Dignitaries surround the trophy. Captain Rene Pugnet gives a short thanksgiving address.
Poster of French actress Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth in motion picture. Views of the running film. Fragments of other films. Cowboy movie star William S. Hart.
Opening scene shows a contingent of Belgian soldiers carrying their rifles and packs as they walk in loose formation across a rutted frozen field during World War 1. Next, several are seen, briefly, firing their rifles from behind an earthen berm. A glimpse of the soldiers trying to get a fire going near a makeshift shelter. Brief view of the soldiers being issued towels and toiletries. Change of scene shows some French soldiers standing on a wooden pontoon bridge, bypassing the original bombed out one in the background. A team of horses pulls a wagon across the bridge. Next, a troop of mounted French cavalry are shown (from the rear) as they proceed toward the front, along a road, lined by trees. A Red Cross covered wagon is being pulled along in their formation. Momentary glimpse of a French 320mm railway gun with some smoke rising from its barrel after firing. Belgian soldiers on the firing line in a shallow trench in no man's land. As they fire their rifles, one of them is hit and helped to the rear by companions.
Newly arrived American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) are welcomed at a French training camp during World War 1. French soldiers carry an American flag, past a formation of French troops, to the U.S. section of the camp. French officers conversing in front of the training camp. Sign overhead reads 'Camp Franco-Americain'. Several American officers stand with them. Flag raising ceremony in the morning. French and American flags are raised simultaneously. French troops lined up for morning roll call (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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