Aerial view shows the port of Le Havre in France, with no visible activity. The SS Liberte, SS Ile de France, and SS Antilles are docked but the port is idle. Several uniformed guards patrol the docks. In the town of Le Havre, merchant marine officers and crewmen emerge from building in town square displaying the French tricolor above its roof. Posters on either side of the building entrance read to the effect that the maritime Officers and men are right, about an issue in controversy. Many bicycles in evidence and several cars parked along street.
Wright Plane flies in Le Mans, France. Wilbur Wight's plane with 25 horse power and two chain-driven propellers at Le Mans, France. Two men start propellers. Frenchmen pull Wright brother's plane 'B' Pusher type over the ground to steel rail catapult ramp. French military and civilian spectators at air show. Frenchmen pull launch weight into steel tower. Start of flight on 08 August 1908. Steel weight descends and plane catapult into air. Airplane flies.
Arrival of United States President Woodrow Wilson at Brest Harbour, Finistere, France. He is on his visit to France for the Paris Peace Conference. Scene of pier crowded with people to greet president Wilson. Pier decorated with American flags. President Wilson is seen leaving the pier. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. Airmen killed by Nazis in France during World War II. Dead bodies of U.S. Airmen, all shot in head lying on the road to Gambsheim, in France. Pocket diaries and Holy Cross on an airman's dead body. White cloth with spots of blood covers the face of dead. Dead bodies scattered, all over a ground.
American airmen prepare a biplane aircraft for take off in France during World War I. Map of St. Mihiel, France. Biplanes lined up on a field. Pilots stand near the biplanes. They get into the planes and start the engines. The biplanes taxi and take off. The biplanes in flight.
The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War I. Soldiers of the U.S. 103rd Engineer Battalion, together with French Army engineers, cut and sharpen logs on the bank of the River Marne, in France, during World War 1. A city (Chateau-Thierry?) is visible across the river in the background, where the river seems to take a sharp bend. Next, a French and an American soldier are seen wielding large mallets to drive the newly cut poles into the river embankment at the water's edge. French officers are supervising the work. A line is stretched outward from the river bank. Change of scene shows French and American engineers working on a pontoon bridge across a different river. Troops are walking on the opposite side. Final scenes show American soldiers of the 103rd Engineers standing on and near an elaborate log-reinforced bridge, complete with metal railing. Other soldiers are guiding a horse as it pulls a two-wheeled caisson across the bridge. The Engineers examine the bridge deck and side reinforcements as the horse and caisson move past.
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