View of an interment camp at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia, during World War 1. ( It is part of Chickamauga National Military Park's North Post area. ) A guard overlooks the camp compound through a window. A telephone mounted on wall besides the guard. A double line of 10-feet high barbed wire fence runs around the camp. German prisoner digs ground at a work camp under watchful eye of a guard. Other prisoners dig ground at a ditch in the background. (WWI; WW1)
German prisoners play with dog pups at an interment camp in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA, during World War 1. (Fort Oglethorpe was established as an Army Post in 1902, and is part of Chickamauga National Military Park's North Post.) Prison barracks in the background. A prison guard fixes a tripod stand. A prisoner in the background watches the guard. (WWI; WW1)
German prisoners dig ground with pick-axes and pitch forks at an interment camp in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, USA, during World War 1. Prison camp can be seen in the background. (Fort Oglethorpe was established as a U.S. Army Post in 1902, and is located in the Chickamauga National Military Park's North Post area.) (WWI; WW1)
Brief out-of-context anachronistic views of P-38 aircraft flying in formation. This is followed by footage featuring American air Ace Eddie Rickenbacker. A 95th Squadron Nieuport 28 biplane fighter is rolled out of the hangar at an airfield. 94th Aero SPAD XIIIs lined up on a field. Pilot climbs in the cockpit of a biplane. Rickenbacker in the cockpit. Man pulls the prop through on the biplane. Eddie Rickenbacker poses beside his plane. Hat in Ring insignia painted on the plane indicating the 94th Aero Squadron. Rickenbacker and other pilots talk standing beside a biplane. Group includes ace Harvey Weir Cook. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The United States Secretary of War, Newton D Baker during the second draft ceremony for World War I. His eyes are covered with a blindfold and he draws draft numbers from a bowl. The drawn draft number is read. General Enoch H. Crowder oversees the ceremony. A large number of draftees -- men dressed in suits and hats -- passes along a roadside. Men disembark a railroad train at a military training facility. Men march along tracks carrying the U.S. flags in hands. New recruits, including men and a few women practice marching in formation, still wearing civilian clothes.
The Austro-Hungarian Battleship, SMS Szent Istvan, is seen immediately after being torpedoed, off the Dalmation Coast, by Italian torpedo boats, during World War One. Smoke rising from the listing ship. She capsizes, rolling over completely as crew members slide off the decks and onto the hull as it rolls over. Crew members continue to slide off the ship into the water and swim away from the stricken ship.
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