The United States Army prepares itself during World War 1. Airplanes of the United States Army Air Service take off from a runway strip. Biplanes take off, one after the other. Hangars for the aircraft can be seen at distance. A city as seen from a plane flying low in the sky. The roads, buildings and houses of the city. Other planes flying in the sky.
The United States Navy prepares for battle during World War 1. United States naval warships during an exercise in sea. Fleet of ships sailing in sea. Huge cannons of the warships fire projectiles at enemy positions. Sailors at a naval base doing physical training exercises in a field. Artillery men imparted practical training at a mock battle at the camp. Sailors line up along artillery and point their rifles towards the target. Sailors in boats, they raise their oars before rowing the boats. Artillery on ships fire, swells formed in sea water due to firing. Fleet of U.S. warships in the sea. Smoke and explosion at a target, boat fired upon by ship's gun.
United States Army General John J. Pershing arrives in France, during World War 1. General Pershing, Marshal Joffre, Marshal Foch, and several officials of the U.S. Army pose for a photograph. General Pershing after he lands in France. Pershing, along with President Poincaré of France, Ambassador Sharp, Paul Painleve, Administrator Lacaze and General Dubail. General reviews honor guard troops. A huge crowd assembled to welcome him. Pershing sitting in his car smiles at people, a huge crowd surrounding his car.
The United States Army in France during World War 1. Troops of United States soldiers march through the streets of Paris. Civilians and children walk along them. A huge crowd of civilians of Paris gathers on both sides of the roads. The marching troops of the United States soldiers are welcomed by the civilians. Band of musicians of U.S. Army walk along with the troops playing music.
French women serving in farming roles during World War I as majority of French men are engaged in World War 1. Women farmers together with younger French boys and girls holding farming tools and walking toward fields, through some war rubble. Women with babies pick potatoes in farms. They reap crops and make stacks of it. The farmers attach a mule with a cart loaded with hay stacks. Two women pull the stacks out from the cart. The farming women and youth stand in a circle and use flails for threshing wheat.
The U.S.Navy submarine AL9 performing high speed maneuvers on the surface, during World War 1. What looks to be a camouflage paint scheme is where paint has been abraded away by the sea. Toward the end of the sequence, a Pennsylvania-class "Super Dreadnaught" battle ship is seen in the background. (Note: During World War I, Captain of the AL-9 was Captain Percy T. Wright, and the Executive Officer was Commander Terry Brewster Thompson, who later wrote about the exploits of the AL-9 in his book entitled "Take Her Down".)
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