French troops in their frontline trenches in no man's land on the Western Front during World War 1. View of officer's wrist watch as they wait for 6AM, and then charge out of their trench. View of soldiers' feet leaving the trench. Another contingent, seen leaving a trench one at a time. They move quickly across the battle-scarred landscape. What appear to be gas clouds obscure the terrain. A soldier stands by a stone wall looking through binoculars. French soldiers run across the area, toward German positions,as a line of shells burst in the far background. Two French soldiers crouch beside a smoke generator spewing black smoke across the area. French troops lying prone on the battlefield. One rises to throw a hand grenade. A soldier afixed a rifle grenade to his weapon as a squad of others advance from a shell crater. Two of the advancing French soldiers carry rolls of barbed wire with them. (WWI. WW1.)
SA battery of British artillerymen firing 18 pounder field pieces at German forces in the Hindenburg Line, during World War 1. Change of scene shows British soldiers at side of a road as wagons of French refugees and children on foot and with bicycles, flee the combat zone. British troops, horses, vehicles,and a heavy mortar (covered) move through center of a town choked with departing refugees. Views of ammunition train moving across open fields. Stacks of heavy artillery shells at a munitions dump. Wrecked guns and equipment at the front. (WWI. WW1)
A U.S. Army lineman of the 302nd Engineers, is transported in the sidecar of a motorcycle, on his rounds to check communication lines. They arrive at one stop where the lineman climbs a pole containing 16 lines. He sits atop the multiline pole and secures one of the lines. Then he comes down and signals to his motorcycle driver to accompany him to the next pole. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
French Renault FT tank, in camouflage paint, armed with machine gun, crosses field and climbs steep ridge to a road. British Mk IV tank crosses ridge on opposite side of road and descends to road below. Mk IV crosses open country; more British tanks maneuver in fields; explosive charges detonated near tanks; British tank moves through smoke or gas.
View from German front lines, as their artillery bombards Allied positions in World War 1. As shells begin to strike, some Allied soldiers are seen silhouetted against the sky, in the background, as they leave their trenches for safer positions. A battery of German 21-cm Mörser guns. Closeup of one firing. American soldiers firing a heavy artillery piece. An Allied camp with soldiers, horses and mules. Their gunners are firing a French 75 artillery piece. Scene shifts back to the German lines, where German soldiers in a bunker are firing at rapidly advancing Allied troops, spread across a wide field. German soldiers firing an Austro-Hungarian Schwartzlose M.07/12 machine gun. Allied troops running across the field of view. Two German soldiers in a trench, watch as several other German soldiers retreat back through brush and wire,towards their trench, and fall to Allied gunfire before they can reach safety. Scene goes black and then shifts to German infantry climbing out of a deep trench and running forward, over downed barbed wire, up a small hill, and moving along a zig-zag trench. Next, a German infantryman is seen lying down as he probes to cut through barbed wire in a mass of Allied obstacles. Other German soldiers jump up and throw hand grenades over the barriers. The German infantrymen then advance through the barriers. Scene shifts to German soldiers stringing wire for field communications. A German soldier speaking on a field telephone
German gunners rapid firing a 77mm field piece. Explosions in field. German gunners firing Krupp 15 Cm gun on shielded carriage. German gunners in gas masks loading gas and demolition shells into a Krupp 15 Cm gun. A huge explosion. German gunners load and fire a "Big Bertha," howitzer. Artillery shells exploding in distance
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