The Aisne Marne Operation in France. A U.S. Army staff officer opens door of staff car with 1711 painted on its side. U.S. Army Brigadier General Dwight Edward Aultman, Chief of Artillery of the 5th Corps, American Expeditionary Forces, steps from the car and the staff officer briefs him with a map. Two other soldiers remain in front seat of the car. General Aultman poses with fields behind him. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)in World War I. Several Generals and senior officers of the AEF inspect troops of the U.S. 3rd Army, in France. The officers are mounted on horseback and proceed through the ranks of soldiers drawn up in formation for inspection. One row of soldiers is standing behind their respective machine guns. The Generals seen ready to review the troops in parade. The infantry marches first, followed by horse-drawn artillery pulling French 75 field pieces, support elements consisting of horse-drawn covered wagons, and then troops in motorized trucks and automobiles. View of infantry marching with shouldered rifles and fixed bayonets. The ranking general saluting the troops from horseback.
An electric power plant in France. French doctors operate medical equipment. French dentist with a patient. Electrical appliances like stoves, vacuum cleaners and irons. Construction of dams. Cable cars move back and forth at a construction site. Overhead railway used to transport concrete blocks and buckets of cement made in factories to the construction site. Workers release cement from a bucket. Cement is laid and pressed down. Workers lay pipelines at the dam sites. Workers assemble wooden boards.
A British Mk IV tank in a village in France. British soldiers moving all about in the village behind the tank, which begins to move forward. Scene shifts to battlefield where the tank moves across muddy rough terrain, followed by British infantry. A British infantryman balances, standing upright, atop the tank as it maneuvers. In the background, along a ridge, British artillery is being pulled by teams of horses.
A British soldier reads the war news to people in France. Houses in the village. Local people gather around to hear the news.
British soldiers in France, during World War 1. Sentry in a deep reinforced trench detects gas and puts on gas mask while sounding pedal gong alarm. He closes door of a protected dugout and alerts soldiers, in unprotected dugout of the trench, who don gas masks and come out, as gas cloud drifts over the trench.. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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