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U.S. 111th Infantry units rest and 119th Field Artillery fire guns in France during World War I

The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEC) 111th Infantry contingent bivouacked on side of a hill in Crezeney, France. Their horses graze in field below. Closeup of soldiers drinking directly from a small pond, and filling containers with water from it. Battle-damaged buildings in the background. Scene shifts to U.S. 119th Field Artillery, near Mount Saint Martin in Lorraine. A gun crew is seen behind an entrenched French heavy gun (Canon de 155mm Long Mle 1917 GPF). Views of the gun breech and open split tail carriage. Closeup of Gunner cranking a control wheel to elevate the gun barrel. He then makes some fine aiming adjustments. Camera focuses on a soldier standing near a large tree trunk and then pans over to the gunner adjusting aim of the 155mm gun. Scene shifts to another gun crew in some shrubbery, firing a French 75 field piece.

Date: 1918, July
Duration: 2 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675067060
Eddie Rickenbacker and Jimmy Meissner in a staged fight against a captured German plane in France during World War I.

Activities of United States 94th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. The film-making in this clip is as described in chapter 33 of the book, "Fighting the Flying Circus" by W. David Lewis. Eddie Rickenbacker in the cockpit of a DH-4 aircraft (posing as a Spad) in flight during World War I. He is in a mock duel against a captured German Hannover aircraft. Several aircraft manuevering in the sky. Smoke from tracers (incendiary bullets). Various allied aircraft pass close by. View of James "Jimmy" Armand Meissner from the 94th Aero Squadron in front seat of DH-4. Aerial view of the ground. Clouds all around. Rickenbacker's Spad aircraft with number "1" painted on side seen in fight around 3 minute mark on clip.

Date: 1918
Duration: 4 min 40 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049085
United States 139th Infantry soldier stands and aims his rifle in France, during WWI.

United States 139th Infantry troop occupy dugouts in France during first World War. Sunlight behind the clouds. Silhouette of fences and a soldier with rifle. Soldier stands and aims with rifle, he sits down. He gets up and crawls forward on ground. (World War I, World War 1, WWI, WW1)

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675026345
British Army troops respond to gas attack during World War I, in France. One operates a Lewis machine gun

British soldiers in France during World War 1. British soldiers take action as a gas cloud begins to envelop them in a trench on the Western Front. They don gas masks and take up firing positions. One is armed with a Lewis machine gun. Snow covers the field outside the trench, In change of scene, one soldier takes samples of the gas and analyzes them using a phosgene detector. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027267
United States Army troops train for gas attacks and then deploy to France where they encounter enemy gas in World War I

A United States Army training film about defense against chemical warfare. United States troops wearing gas masks undergo training with gas masks in the United States. They fire artillery. An officer wears a diaphragm gas mask which enables his command to be heard by the gun crew. A divisional chemical officer makes an inspection of the training for the division commander. He gives last minute advice to an assembled group of officers. Troops wearing gas masks undergo a drill on a field. U.S. troops are deployed to France and are seen marching toward front line positions during World War I. The Germans launch a cloud attack of poisonous gas. The troops lay down in the field with rifles in their hands. Soldiers rest covering themselves with a large sheet.

Date: 1918
Duration: 6 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044440
American 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments fire railroad guns at Belleville in France.

Shows American 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments uncovering and preparing a 14-inch railway gun for operation in Belleville, France, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War 1. Several railroad guns are seen in the field. One is labeled USN (U.S. Navy) 110. A supervisor walks past it using a megaphone to issue an order to the gun crew. The crew uses block and tackle to move and load a heavy shell. Scene shifts to a soldier climbing out of a trench with a manual in his hand. Camera shifts to one of the rail guns being fired, emitting a huge black cloud of smoke. Two more railway gun firings are recorded. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, November
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029230