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French artillery batteries prepare for offensive at Monchy in World War I.

French troops use teams of horses to pull howitzers to crest of hill as they prepare for offensive at Monchy during World War 1. ( WWI. WW1)

Date: 1915
Duration: 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027252
French bombardment of German trenches at Messiges

Animated map showing French bombardment of the German trenches at Messiges during World War I. Next are shown actual scenes of the no man's land and trenches following the bombardment. Everything has been obliterated. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Date: 1915
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675027314
U.S. AEF soldiers set up machine gun defenses North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War I

Two U.S. soldiers in a foxhole, set up a French Hotchkiss Model 1914 heavy machine gun, North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War I. Several American soldiers crawl across a field and set up another Hotchkiss machine gun on a tripod. One of the supporting soldiers runs forward to give the gunners two ammunition cannisters. Scene shifts to another team setting up a Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun, on a tripod. Soldiers with ammunition are seen in background. Several American machine gunners step through their own barbed wire defenses to set up another Hotchkiss Model 1909 light machine gun. A machine gun crew firing a Hotchkiss Model 1914, pointed skyward. One feeds strips of 8mm lebel ammunition into the gun. (World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Date: 1918, May
Duration: 2 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027492
U.S. Army (AEF) troops establishing base camp North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War I

U.S. troops excavating for a deep dugout as part of their defenses North of Villers-Tournelle, during World War 1. Another scene shows troops in their bivouac area performing routine maintenance around their dugout shelters. Lines of wash are seen drying. Some prepare meals over camp fires. One soldier emerges from his dugout to scan the skies for enemy aircraft. An officer sits at a table and examines charts. Soldiers relax at entrance to a large dugout field kitchen, where a slab of meat sits on a butcher table. (WWI. WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675027494
French gun crew firing a Schneider Obusiers de 520 (520mm howitzer) rail gun, during World War I

French artillerymen fire a Schneider Obusiers de 520 (520mm howitzer) rail gun, partially entrenched. The barrel is lowered after firing. The camera then records the French crew preparing to fire, again, as an American soldier takes photographs. They convey a shell on a moving platform (which they also ride). The gun crew partially cranks the round forward, and then all push it into the gun breech. The next scene shows the round being fired. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, November
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675029231
Scenes of Charles A. Lindbergh in flights of the Spirit of St Louis.

Charles A. Lindbergh posing in front of his airplane, "The Spirit of St. Louis." The Spirit of St. Louis landing at an airfield in the United States. People gathered around the Spirit of St. Louis, with its engine running.Lindbergh climbing aboard his airplane at Roosevelt Field on May 20, 1927, and taking off on his historic solo transatlantic flight to Paris. View of Lindbergh climbing steeply in the Spirit of St. Louis during his flight from Paris to Brussels, in 1927, Nightime scenes of crowds running to see Lindbergh upon his arrival at Le Bourget airfield in Paris on May 21, 1927. French President Gaston Doumergue stands with Lindbergh on a balcony, where they wave the French tricolor. They converse, framed by American flags (one of which, almost falls from the balcony). Lindbergh holds and waves both the American flag and the French tricolor. The French President presents the Honor Legion Medal to Charles Lindbergh. Tug boats and fire boats fill New York Harbor to welcome Charles A. Lindbergh upon his arrival in that city. New York fetes Lindbergh with tickertape parade.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675074474