On German Field Marshal, Paul Von Hindenburg in Germany. Paul Von Hindenburg as a captain examines maps during World War I. An official stands near him. He reviews First World War German troops and decorates soldiers during a ceremony. Soldiers salute him. Scene shifts and show Hindenburg greeting citizens as he walks through the streets and they throw flowers. He speaks to elderly German military veterans who are part of an honor guard. He confers with officers. Civilians on either side of the streets. Flags in the background.
British troops march along open fields in Salonica, Greece during World War 1. They occupy a trench at the front. One uses a periscopic viewer to look over the edge of their trench. One inserts a grenade in his rifle and prepares to fire it. They fire a mortar shell from inside their trench. Exploding mortar rounds are seen on a hillside opposite their position.
Military Training Grounds in Montreal, Canada during World War 1. Canadian recruits, in uniform, are given realistic training in trenches similar to those in the battlefields of Europe for World War I. They crouch in trenches and fire their weapons including machine guns. Two men climb a raised platform and fire a machine gun concealed by brush. Officers stand outside a sandbagged bunker as new recruits, still in civilian clothes, follow several uniformed soldiers out of the bunker. Sign on bunker reads: "Enlist Here." Recruits in uniform, work in field digging trenches and dugouts.
Smoke rising from burning timbers on a collapsed wooden railroad trestle bridge near Olmito Texas on the U.S.- Mexican border. (This is during a period of Mexican bandit attacks leading up to those by Pancho Villa and the subsequent Mexican Expedition AKA the "Punitive Expedition, U.S. Army.") The rails on the trestle bridge remain intact but are severely bent and twisted by the heat of the fire. They continue, with fragments of railroad ties, still attached, to extend across the span of the bridge, over a deep river bed. The next scene shows the aftermath with several men standing near a train with about six derailed cars. They wave when the camera focuses on them. In the background, next to two passenger cars, still upright, a man and two women are looking at the wreck. The men in the foreground are retrieving items from the train's mail and cargo cars, and have some piled up nearby. On man is writing notes. Closeup of what appears to be a policeman, in a cap, as he walks past men retrieving items from a partly overturned rail car. Camera focuses on wheels ripped from the bottom of the car. The officer in the cap, and a man in shirt and tie, who appears to be a business executive, converse briefly and the businessman leaves the scene. Next, are shown numerous articles, retrieved from the train wreck. They are laid out on a field near a train station and other buildings. Two box cars are parked on a track nearby. Two men are sorting through the articles on the ground. A small boy watches as a man briefly sprays water on some of the items laid out in the field. A train station is seen in the background along with numerous low buildings. Camera jumps to closeup of a steel door on the train station building. It shows three holes in the door, two of which seem to contain remnants of bullets or larger size ordnance, presumably fired by Mexican bandits trying to break into the high value storage room at the station. The bandits also burned a bridge at Tandy's Station to thwart responders.
The RMS Lusitania in New York harbor during World War I. Smoke rises from the ship. A New York ferry boat moves in the foreground as the Lusitania steams in New York harbor.
Frozen bodies of numerous dead Turkish soldiers line a mountain road in Sarikamish. They fell victim to the opposing Russian Forces and the severe cold weather, during the World War 1, Caucasus Campaign Battle of Sarikamish (part of Russian Armenia at that time).