Troops of the U.S. 165th Infantry Regiment (42nd Infantry, Rainbow Division) fire a Stokes mortar from a trench in France during World War 1. (They reportedly destroyed a German observation post.)
A post-war film shows U.S. Army soldiers studying in barracks and in foreign universities immediately after World War II. Students at a campus in France as they walk on a pathway. Courses being offered to the soldiers. Several posters with the subject names in the background. The officers seated at a desk. A soldier takes books. Soldiers attend an animal husbandry class and examine livestock in a yard area. Students in an engineering class as they draw different drawings on paper at drafting tables. A chemistry lab. The students perform experiments and are seen working with test tubes and graduated cylinders. A woman works with clay and a U.S. soldier fashions sculpture of a dog out of clay. An officer seated on a desk and the students stand in front of him and make notes during journalism and correspondence classes. U.S. Army students in art classes. A woman holds a ball and poses. The students draw her form. The Geology class. Soldiers walk in trenches and a few stand as they make notes after observing a geologic sample. Group of U.S. Army soldiers play tennis. An officer seated in a chair. They play basketball. Soldiers seated on the field. Soldiers being awarded with diploma certificates after 4 or 8 week courses. They are gathered at a graduation ceremony receiving diplomas that they can use in applying for college credit. Students seated in a class. A French woman teaches them. Two soldiers walk among the buildings of a French campus.
U.S. soldiers in France during World War II. A tank loaded with troops rolls through a town. Buildings along street sides. Truckloads of U.S. troops move past. A jeep passes on a road. U.S. infantrymen in trucks move across French fields. A U.S. tank rolls past. Traffic on a road comprising of American tanks, cars and a donkey cart ridden by an old man. Wreckage of vehicles along a side of the road.
U.S. ground crewmen standing outside a hangar in France. They rolll a De Havilland DH-4 airplane out of a camouflaged hangar. Three of them crouch under the left wing as they load bombs onto hooks under the wing. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Sea plane base activity in the European Theater during World War I. A U.S. Navy Curtiss HS-2L seaplane lands and taxis to beach on coast of France during the First World War. . Ground crew sets plank for the crew to step to the beach. Several Curtiss seaplanes parked on a ramp near hangars. Weather is raining. Sailors maneuver a seaplane into a parking place. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Outtakes from the Memphis Belle documentary movie. Combat missions of B-17 aircraft in France. Top turret of B-17 firing. Large aerial formation of B-17s. Interior of the Memphis Belle B-17. Appears to be Pilot Captain Robert Morgan at controls and views of tail gunner, Staff Sgt John P. Quinlan. Aerial formation of B-17s. B-17s leaving vapor trails behind. Aerial views of coastline. (World War II period).
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