The sixth section battery 'F' antiaircraft service of the British Expeditionary Forces in action in Busigny, Nord, France during World War I. The battery in action against a German observation airplane. Two antiaircraft guns are mounted on World War I vintage trucks which are jacked up on blocks and are leveled with leveling screw jacks. Soldiers standing nearby. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
A film on the development of air power. A French observation balloon in flight at Souain in Marne, France on October 2, 1918 during World War I. Anti-aircraft bursts near the observation balloon. Wreckage of a bombed village in the background.
Consequences of the St. Mihiel Offensive of World War I. A German cemetery in St. Mihiel, France. A road along the cemetery. Trees along the road. A vehicle parked on the road. A man standing in the cemetery salutes. A soldier enters the cemetery.
The Soviet ship Vyacheslav Molotov is seen, docked at the French port of Le Havre. A crane raises cargo onto the ship. Ukrainian and Belorussian passengers stand on the pier, ready to board the ship that will take them to their former hometowns. One woman walks up the gangplank with a flag and a carryall displaying the image of Joseph stalin. On the pier, French Army officers process the embarking passengers, as a Soviet Army officer stands nearby. Closeup of documents being stamped. (Narrator states that these refugees fled their homes for France, 20 years earlier, when they were under the domination of Poland.) The Soviet officer encouraging passengers up the gangplank. View from high on the ship, of passengers clustered around the processing station. Camera pans up to the ship's funnel, where Soviet hammer and sicle is displayed. View from behind people waving on the dock, of the passengers lining the railing of the ship, waving goodbye as the ship slowly begins to move forward and then is seen underway. Scene fades to reopen showing the ship in waters of the Black Sea approaching the port of Odessa, Ukraine. Buildings seen upon cliffs overlooking the port. Several views of the passengers assembled on deck looking toward shore. Closeups of passengers and their flags. A Ukrainian woman gives a speech about her joy at homecoming. Other passengers applaud. A man holds up a homemade sign reading (in Russian) "LONG LIVE SOVIET-HOMELAND I-EE-GOVERNMENT." Passengers disembarking down the gangplank, carrying flags and riding in open small trucks away from the ship.
Camp Philip Morris in Le Havre, France. War brides of American soldiers at railway station preparing to travel to Camp Philip Morris. Several American soldiers are seen with their wives and babies. The war brides fill the train and it leaves the station, as American Military Police in white helmets stand and salute. Passengers look out of the windows of the railroad cars. A sign reads 'Camp Philip Morris'. War brides arrive by bus and carry belongings to their quarters. Camp buildings in view.
A Seventh-day Adventist Christian mass baptism in Saint Maurice, France. Men and women, holding umbrellas, stand on a raised area on the shore of a water body. A flight of steps leads down to the water. A woman comes down the steps. A few people standing on a platform near the water. A man who stands waist-high inside the water helps the woman into the water. The woman immerses herself fully in the water and comes up, baptized as a Seventh-day Adventist. The woman is helped by another man out of the water. Men and women along a walkway. A woman holding umbrella on the walkway. Women talking and having tea. Another woman standing behind, watches.
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