Newsreel titled 'Crack cavalry units maneuver in Turkey' shows Army's cavalry units participating in a parade in Constantinople,Turkey. Horseman carrying flags participate in a parade. They make their horses jump over obstacles.
American Army Major General James G. Harbord, Head of a U.S. post-war Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, together with members of his staff, mingle with Turkish authorities, as they all come out of the Town Hall building in Kharput (Elazig) Turkey.
U.s. soldiers of the American Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, push several of their military vehicles up a sandy sloping road from vicinity of the Euphrates River, near Kharput (Elazıg) Turkey. The last car in the group appears to be a 1918 Ford Model T Touring car. It displays a small American flag on it's radiator.
Members of the U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, stroll about grounds where tents are set up at a reception and party for them at Erzurum, Turkey. Women are seen seated on the ground near a large tent. Turkish soldiers of the 14th Corps assemble on bleachers near a space set out for a football (soccer) match. Players seen running on the pitch. Two wrestlers demonstrate their skills. A Lazi Dancer from the Trabzon district dances, accompanied by Turkish muscians. A group of dancers performs.
Brigadier General Billy Mitchell taxis in a Boeing Model 15 ( or a Curtis P-1Hawk) airplane, after landing at an airfield. . Battle ships underway at sea. Mitchell organizes 1st provisional Air Brigade for bombing demonstration against battleship target.. Crews and airplanes train and prepare at Langley Field, Virginia. Soldiers load bombs under plane wings. Planes take off to bomb the obsolete U.S. battleship USS Alabama. View from airplane in flight as it drops phosphorus bomb on the Alabama. View from water as bomb strikes with huge explosion. Armorers prepare heavier bombs for the next demonstration. Planes take off and bomb the USS Alabama again. General Mitchell crouched down beside a bomb loaded on an airplane for new tests in 1923. General Pershing, Admiral Shoemaker, Assistant Secretary of War, Davis, and General Patrick on deck of the Ship, USS St. Mihiel (AP-32) to observe the tests. Views of planes dropping bombs on Battleship USS Virginia and the ship rolling over and sinking. Large formations of 1920s era Air Service aircraft in flight.
Several Keystone LB-5s (triple tails) and LB-5As (double tails) move across an airfield, circa 1928. Test bombing of captured German battleship, Ostfriesland, in 1921. Smoke arises due to bombing. A formation of four Martin NBS-1 bombers over the former USS Alabama (BB-8), in the Chesapeake Bay, on September 23, 1921. A white phosphorus bomb explodes atop the ship raising a huge white cloud. One of the Martin bombers flies low over the water drops a smoke curtain. (World War II period).