The time period of the Second Battle of the Marne in France during World War 1. The country side of Cierges-sous-Montfaucon in France. A line of horses towing American artillery and caissons along a road, past a French village. As camera pans, the U.S. forces are seen to be passing through the village and then turning onto the road where they were seen earlier, in the foreground. View shifts to center of the village, where Army trucks carrying U.S. soldiers are driving through. A motorcar passes a villager riding in a horse-drawn wagon. The buildings in the village show battle damage. More canvas-covered army trucks moving on the village streets.
The Aisne-Marne Operation in France during World War 1. American Expeditionary Forces (AEC) 111th Infantry contingent bivouacked on side of a hill in Crezeney, France. Their horses graze in field below. Closeup of soldiers drinking directly from a small pond, and filling containers with water from it. Battle-damaged buildings in the background. Scene shifts to U.S. 119th Field Artillery, near Mount Saint Martin in Lorraine. A gun crew is seen behind an entrenched French heavy gun (Canon de 155mm Long Mle 1917 GPF). Views of the gun breech and open split tail carriage. Closeup of Gunner cranking a control wheel to elevate the gun barrel. He then makes some fine aiming adjustments. Camera focuses on a soldier standing near a large tree trunk and then pans over to the gunner adjusting aim of the 155mm gun. Scene shifts to another gun crew in some shrubbery, firing a French 75 field piece.
American Expeditionary Forces, 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow Division) in France during World War 1. At Glonville, on May 8, 1918, Captain D. L. Smith talks over a field phone while directing artillery fire. Another soldier stands behind him. Captain D. L. Smith and Major Curtis G. Reddon converse over the field telephone. An officer smokes standing under a tree. Troops walk along a road in the background. On May 9, 1918, In Baccarat, France, U.S. Army Major General Charles T. Menoher, Brigadier General M. J. Lenihan, U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacArthur and staff officers confer in a field.
Activities of the U.S. 42nd Infantry Division (Rainbow Division) American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in France during World War 1. Soldiers delouse clothing in large steam cabinets at an encampment dubbed "the Indian Village," in France. Soldiers are seen carrying their cleaned clothing. Other soldiers bring horses to water, as a soldier washes his clothes in a nearby outdoor wash facility
Officers inspect troops from Company B, 165th Infantry Regiment (42nd Infantry, Rainbow Division) in France during World War 1. The soldiers are lined up in front of their pup tents, in a field. Captain K. C. Siebert, Lieutenant R. Doris and Lieutenant F. W. Carter inspect strong dugouts of Company A, in a hillside just behind the front lines, at Chasseurs, France. Officers walk out of the passageway of an adjoining heavy stone structure (Headquarters?). Scene shifts to U.S. Machine gun battalions firing French Hotchkiss M1914 heavy machine guns. At each position, one soldier feeds a strip of 8mm Lebel cartridge ammunition while the other fires the weapon. Slate states that the firing is toward a German town 2,800 meters away. Men of a machine gun company are seen lined up to receive issues of personal clothing from Quartermaster. Soldiers of the 165th Infantry receiving pay from paymasters at an outdoor table near a hillside dugout. One counts out a soldier's pay and another annotates a pay ledger.
Convoy of U.S. Navy troop transport ships arriving at harbor in France, during World War 1. Soldiers of the Ameridan expeditionary Force, carrying their gear, crowd the deck of a transport ship. American soldiers disembarking on gangways at a pier in France. Local ships and boats, including sailing vessels are seen in background. The troops walk across the quay.
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