A freighter in foreground,and a troop transport ship, docked at a U.S.Army Transport Service Terminal during World War 1. (A large oceanliner seen berthed on opposite side of the terminal.) U.S. Army troops jam the lower decks of the troop ship as she prepares to get underway to France. Three twenty-man life rafts hang on the side of the troop ship and an American flag flies at her stern. Scene shifts to American Expeditionary Forces boarding a very large Navy transport ship at Hoboken, New Jersey. Some troops with all their gear, climb a steep gangway to an upper deck, while others, below, walk a level gangway to a lower deck.
The upper deck of the SS Leviathan, carrying American Expeditionary Forces to France during World War 1. Formerly the German ocean liner, Vaterland, she is the largest ship afloat, and carries 12 thousand troops. This footage shows the U.S. Navy commissary Officer inspecting various functional activities related to care and feeding of the crew and troops aboard. He checks sides of beef in cold storage of the meat locker. He samples a pie in the bakery; and inspects the galley. Next sequence shows Army troops forming two chow lines as they come down into the mess area, carrying their individual mess kits. Mess personnel serve the troops, who then proceed to long tables where they eat.
Life aboard the SS Leviathan troopship, carrying 12 thousand American soldiers to France during World War 1.The largest ship afloat, she was formerly the German ocean liner, Vaterland. Soldiers in regular sleeping compartments lie on vertical bunks, some stacked 3 or 4 high. View of the Sick Bay on the ship where patients have less crowded conditions. A Navy medical officer makes rounds, checking each patient. A medical technician is seen sterilizing instruments in a steam autoclave.
Engineering personnel at work below decks in the engine compartments of the SS Leviathan troop transport ship while underway, carrying 12 thousand soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force to France during World War 1. Men in control room adjust engine settings. Firemen, stripped to the waist, stoke ship's boilers. View forward from the bridge, as rough seas break over the bow of the ship.
U.S. soldiers crowd on the deck of an LST crossing the English Channel en route to Normandy France on D-day, in World War 2.. A photographer in the background takes their pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John H. Livingston,of the 834th Engineer Aviation Battalion, refers to a map as he briefs members under his command about their mission. Army chaplain, Captain George Russell Barber, conducts an informal religious service for troops.
Preparations for D-Day Invasion of France during World War II. Four days before D-Day, U.S. gliders at a British base taxi and take off one after the other, towed by Douglas C-47 Skytrain aircraft. Insignia of the United States. A hangar in the background. The gliders in flight. They fly over an airfield in formation.
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