Gas alarm during World War 1. Scene is an elaborate deep trench in France, lined with woven tree branches. American sentry sounds gas alarm while donning gas mask and lowering door on a gas-proof dugout. Soldiers in unprotected dugout come out wearing their gas masks. Gas drifts over the area as troops continue their evacuation. (WWI. WW1)
Signal rockets are seen in the black night sky, falling over no man's land, to illuminate German trenches, in France during World War I. A bright searchlight and bright artillery explosions illuminate trenches and barbed wire. U.S. 5th, 149th, and 150th Field Artillery fire guns during the day.
German prisoners of war are brought into a British trench in France during World War 1. Allied troops search the German prisoners
German troops being shelled heavily by Allied artillery as they advance in France during World War 1. German soldiers rush out of their dugout and move quickly through a trench, and then across No-Man's Land, where smoke rises from exploding shells. Three German soldiers firing a Maxim machine gun from dug-in position. A tremendous explosion near the camera. German troops running around and through a huge crater and hunkered down behind a dirt hill, that they climb, as another tremendous explosion occurs just over the hill. Scene changes to German troops advancing through dried mud boulders and across a field, as what appear to be gas shells, explode nearby. Camera pans across the gas fumes. A German tank seem dimly in background. Heavy black smoke clouds rise from German soldiers using flame throwers. More gas shells exploding as German soldiers run past in foreground, avoiding the clouds. Series of gas shell explosions from Allied barrage. A British Mark V tank with name "Erni" painted on it, maneuvering. German gun crew picks up their Maxim machine gun and runs forward. German troops running forward with gas shells exploding in near background. Advancing German soldiers using flame thrower. German troops in deep trench, with others seen silhouetted against light sky, as they run across a ridge in background. View from low hill of German troops running across No-Man's Land and climbing over a fallen tree as they ascend the hill near the camera. German troops running past bomb and shell craters as they advance. French soldiers, taken prisoners of war, are escorted along a road near a French village. Final scene shows some American prisoners being escorted through the village.
A U.S. Army training film titled 'Teamwork' from 1946. Several actors portraying Nazi officers. Nazi officer briefs his officer on their 'Divide and Conquer Policy' for the Americans in a German Headquarters looking building. Actual World War 2 footage is seen at start of film showing the building of the German Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Germany. After that, actual combat footage begins at TC:02:34,with views of the German defenses on the Western Wall, at the coast of France. German soldiers man an anti-aircraft gun in a hill, as others march loosely along the shoreline. Several Allied warships are seen in formation headed toward the camera, during the D-Day invasion, June 6, 1944. Next, numerous warships fire their guns, bombarding the Normandy coast. Numerous landing craft (Higgins boats) swarm toward the coast. View from bridge of a LCI(M) (landing craft, infantry - mortar) as it fires its mortars approaching the beachhead. Explosions from the mortar fire. Rockets being launched from Landing Crafts Tank (Rocket). Higgins boats reaching the shore and troops leaving them for the beach. American troops running from the shore after landing, and taking up positions firing small arms. A soldier placing a demolition charge at a German bunker and running from it as it explodes. Famous footage of American troops being shot as they advance on D-Day. Medics tending to wounded on the shore. Medic caring for a wounded African American soldier as they shelter under chalk cliffs at Normandy beachhead. U.S. troops moving inland from their beachhead.
Troops of the First Division, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) move down a hill with a horse-drawn caisson and small artillery piece, at their training grounds in Gondrecourt, France, during World War 1. In the next scene two gunners crouch behind the shield of a Vickers Q.F. Mark II 40mm Gun. An instructor stands over them and they fire the gun at his command, several times. The hot expended shells drop between the gunners. The assistant gunner loads a new round through the gun breech, for the next firing. Several other soldiers sit in the background observing and presumably awaiting their turn to practice firing the Vickers gun.
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