Opening slate (in French): French women during the War (World War 1). Women at work in France during the First World War. French women load hay onto a horse drawn cart. A woman takes care of a horse. Woman leads two pairs of yoked oxen out of a barn. They make the cattle plow a field. A woman with a pair of horses as they till the soil. A group of women collect harvest from a field. Women bring buckets of water from a pond.
French soldiers in France during World War 1. French women in a street. A girl pins up a medal onto a French soldier. Women knit as they sit around a table in a building. Line of French soldiers receive clothes from women working at a counter during a snow storm. A woman in a war manufacturing helmet factory works on a helmet. She weaves straps into the inside of a French Army helmet. She removes a pencil from her hair bun and writes out a note of support to the future recipient of the helmet, and then she tucks it under an inside flap of the completed helmet. Nuns outside a cinema hall hand out treats to soldiers and soldiers enter the movie theatre hall. Women nurses and nuns care for young children and help them at a gathering where they receive flags and toys. Soldiers look on as a girl sings with an amputee. A man and woman couple walk together in a field. The woman helps the man put on and tighten an arm prosthesis, and then the man ably helps saw a log of wood. Women put flowers on French graves in a field. French soldiers sleep in a trench as one soldier stands watch.
French children in France during World War I. French children playing in an outdoor courtyard, supervised by a woman nurse or teacher. A teacher inside a French classroom instructs young children students. A student stands and answers the teacher's questions. A train pulls up at a station and passengers, many children aboard the train, look out from the windows. Elderly nurses or nuns along with children on an outdoor outing. One of the women comforts a girl who has hurt her hand. Boys play in the background. Red Cross workers help children enter a hospital building. Nurses take care of sick children in metal-sided cribs at the hospital. Older children play games with nurses outdoors on the hospital grounds.
American soldiers in France during World War I. American soldiers fire in a field. Dead soldiers and horses lying on a road as soldiers carry wounded on litters . Men carry injured soldiers on litters across a field. Soldiers being given medical aid. Men load injured soldiers on litters into armored cars.
American Army soldiers in France during World War I. U.S. Army soldiers outside a building and marching. Close up views of an elderly French woman and her elderly husband. The woman refugee carries a large load of her belongings on her back. Allied troops advance in the background. Men and women and children French civilian refugees carry their belonging along as they flee from their homes near the war front. American Army soldiers march alongside and one soldier helps a civilian girl push a wheeled cart with her belongings along muddy, dirt roads.
United States 314th Infantry Regiment, 79th Infantry Division, in France during World War II. Soldiers of the 314th Infantry Regiment load onto assault boats at the bank of river Seine. Men row across the river in assault boats. The boats being manned by United States 304th Engineers Division.
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