Student pilots gather around as French military instructor in World War 1. He shows basic controls to student in cockpit of a non-flyable training airframe. The instructor stands on a permanent ladder affixed to the fuselage and wing. The student moves the flight controls as the instructor tells him. A metal sign hangs on the fuselage warning students to perform acrobatic maneuvers safely. (WWI. WW1)
During World War 1, a French naval aviator climbs into the hull of a Franco-British Aviation Type H flying boat, marked F.B.A. #8. Another crew member is already aboard and the engine is running. They taxi out in the water and take off in the aircraft. As they taxi for takeoff, a Breguet 14H float plane lands in background. Aerial views from the airborne F.B.A. Type H, showing boats in the water below. Next are seen two voisin 3 float planes taxiing slowly in water. A Viosin 3 float plane taxis rapidly up onto a wooden ramp. (WWI. WW1)
French troops move heavy artillery shells on small gauge railway. Large numbers of shells carried by railway surrounded by French troops. View from the rail car as it passes French fortified positions. ( World War 1. WWI. WW1)
French Army artillery soldiers firing French 75 field artillery pieces from concealed positions along a ridge, during World War I. View behind the guns, as gun crews load and fire.
2-man Renault FT Light Tank being demonstrated during World War 1. It moves through various wooded areas and negotiates steep inclines. (Note: Following the war, this type of Renault tank was often referred to as the FT-17.)
French Regiment marches into its home garrison town, returning from the battlefields, during World War 1. People walk along with the soldiers. Houses on the street side. The Regiment is assembled on a field, as local citizens watch. Upon order from their Commanding Officer, the soldiers afix their bayonets to their rifles and come to attention. Officer salutes the soldiers. Elsewhere, French troops proceed toward the front, in armored cars and trucks, passing through a town with some war-damaged buildings. .
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