1917 Enfield Rifles (U. S. Rifle, Model of 1917) being manufactured in the United States at one of 3 arms plants (Winchester, Remington, or Eddystone) during World War 1 (between the Spring of 1917 and the Spring of 1919). Film shows assemblers hand fitting parts, a worker adjusting the front sight for proper "zero" in a machine vise, and "Proof" firing before final inspection and acceptance. (Note: At the peak of production, the 3 arms plants were turning out 10,000 rifles per day.)
Survivors of German U-Boat attacks off the USA coast during WWI are given tickets by an officer as they disembark from a ship. Survivors massed on pier. A crew of sailors stand in front of their encampment. A short sailor smiles as he smokes a pipe. View of destroyer in harbor. Men, probably more survivors, exit from the hold of a ship. Men, woman, and children walk together through a train yard. Women and children pose with officers. Three children seated together, one wearing a sailor's cap. Brief shot of the U.S. Capitol building dome in Washington at night.
First Church of Christ, Scientist, (First Church of Christ, Seattle, WA 98122, USA) in Seattle, Washington. A car drives past the church as a man walk towards the church.
Various landmarks in and near Olympia Washington, in Thurston County Washington, United States. Temple of Justice building (seen in brick as originally constructed). A man walking outside the home of the first Governor of Washington, Isaac Stevens, located on Capitol Way and Eleventh Street in Olympia Washington, and originally constructed around 1856. The home is in a dilapidated state and partially boarded up. View of the exterior of the Washington State Governor's Mansion in Olympia. A wooden wagon frame parked on the lawn. A car leaving from the covered portico on the driveway at the executive mansion. Scene changes to dock at Hood Canal as passengers board the S.S. Potlatch ferry steam ship. Views from the S.S. Potlatch underway in Hood Canal. A man looks over the edge of the tour ship. Wooded shoreline along areas of Hood Canal. Women and children on the deck of the ship. The ship stops at dock at Brinnon to offload passengers, and then continue on. The ship stops at Seabeck summer resort area. View from behind a young girl on the ship as it docks at Seabeck and people on dock greet the ship.
U.S. soldiers stand and pose alongside two women at Camp Meade in Maryland. M1917 Six Ton tanks in the background with soldiers standing near them. A photographer climbs on one of the tanks holding his camera. Several men and boys stand behind a fence and watch as two U.S. Mark VIII 'Liberty' heavy tanks descend down a steep embankment, followed by a U.S. M1917.
An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
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