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British troops receiving rations during the Battle of Ancre during World War I

British 5th Army troops in shell pocked area in France.They receive rations from a field kitchen the night before launching their attack in Battle of the Ancre, in World War I. Several are seen in a dugout by companions sitting on the ground. They smile and joke around as they eat their rations.

Location: France
Date: 1916, November
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028125
British Officer searches some prisoners of war in a field during the Battle of Ancre, in World War I

Prisoners of war stand in line in a field during the Battle of Ancre, France in World War 1. British officer searches several of the German prisoners after they have all emptied their pockets and placed their belongings on the ground in front of them. Once satisfied, the officer tells them to pick up their belongings, which they do.

Location: France
Date: 1916, November
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028133
French soldiers use a "dummy" artillery piece to attract German bombardment while camouflaging real artillery in World War I.

French soldiers during World War I in France gather around an artificial "dummy" artillery piece made out of waste paper. It was positioned to draw large amounts of German artillery fire and consume German ammunition. They adjust the dummy artillery gun. Then the soldiers remove camouflage covers over a trench to reveal a real artillery piece that they were protecting.

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675045759
As German and French forces prepare for the battle of Verdun, in World War I, French civilians are ordered to evacuate

Views of devastated landscape in no-man's-land. German soldiers are seen preparing for the battle of Verdun, in France, during World War I. Soldiers stand near fortified dugouts. In order to avoid civilian losses, the French population is ordered to evacuate from the city of Verdun and environs. Evacuating families are seen carrying as many of their belongings as possible. They arrive with their luggage at the railroad station and board the train. German soldiers carry a wounded comrade through rubble, on a stretcher. German soldiers in a fort getting ready for battle. Two soldiers smoke cigarettes. The German soldiers leave their fort and carry machine gun out into the battlefield. Barbed wire seen outside.

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675045762
Scenes of battle during World War I. Signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact in 1928

Opening scene shows a British Siege battery of several 9.2 inch howitzers. View from a protected position, of a huge shell exploding. A formation of French Spad airplanes in flight. A French Renault F-17 light tank traversing rough terrain near a forest. Bombs being dropped by hand from an open cockpit airplane. Three bombs exploding on the ground. German troops running past the camera. Glimpse of others in a trench in the background, who appear to be wearing Pickelhauben. Explosions with dense white smoke. A fallen soldier on a litter, on the ground. Nighttime view of artillery flashes. Troops silhouetted against fires burning in the background as they move at night. Smoke blowing across the scene, as artillery fires. A railroad gun firing. A battery of two French 320 mm railway guns. A shell exploding in a field. French 320mm gun firing. Two French 370mm railway guns. One is firing. A soldier sheltering in a deep shell hole and smoke rising all over No-Man's Land. Wounded soldiers recuperating in a hospital. Patients and medical staff posing for photographs in a ward. Signing of the Kellogg-Briand (Pact of Paris) outlawing war, on Aug. 27, 1928, at the Palais D'Orsay, in Paris, France.

Location: France
Date: 1916
Duration: 3 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051113
U.S. Signal Corps employ the Eureka/Rebecca transponder system during the American airborne landings in Normandy, France.

The role and contribution of the U.S. Army Signal Corps in combat and war. Parachute drop-markers with radio signals guide an airborne operation in the European Theater. U.S. airborne troops board a U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota transport aircraft. A woman soldier greets the paratroopers as they prepare to board the aircraft. The paratroopers jump out and descend towards the ground. The paratroopers are furnished with markers for every dropping point. A paratrooper with a radio beacon hooked onto his belt. The beacon is the ground section of the Eureka/Rebecca transponder system. The paratrooper fixes the Eureka extension including the cable and the receiver transmitter. Animation depicts the working of the Eureka-Rebeca system. An aircraft unloads paratroopers over Normandy in France during World War II. Allied troops, landing crafts, landing ships arrive at Normandy on D-Day (6 June 1944). Soldiers wade through the water towards the shore and advance inland across the beach during Allied invasion of France.

Location: European Theater
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021723
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