U.S. Marines practice with Lewis machine guns during World War I. U.S. marine three-man machine gun teams set up Lewis machine guns and fire them during training at Key West, Florida, in World War 1. Teams set up in prone positions, with gunner ready to fire. Second man fastens circular ammunition magazine atop the gun and third man stays low behind. The guns are on a bipods, and equipped with large cooling shields around their barrels. The gunners fire one magazine, replace it, and fire again.
U.S. soldiers at a camp in France during World War II. The soldiers on a field in the foreground. A dugout covered with camouflaged parachute cloth under trees. Two soldiers on a sailboat in a river. Trees in the background. The soldiers bathe in the river. Several pup tents under a camouflaged parachute. A camouflaged dugout under the trees. Men on the river side. Trees line a beach. A parachute tent in the background. A troop jeep pulls into the area. They ride down between trees and along the river. A soldier in front of the covered dugout with a walkie talkie. The river in the background. A spotter uses a phone and looks up through a camouflage netting at the sky while talking. A group of civilians walk on a street. Buildings in the background. Tents under huge trees. A close up of a parachute tent under the trees.
U.S. 1st Marine Division at Hungnam Harbor in North Korea during the Korean War. U.S. Navy SS Union Victory at a dock. Jeeps, trucks, ambulance and ambulance jeeps at the dock. 1st Marine Division load equipment from dock to SS Union Victory. A view of the dock area with jeeps, trucks, ambulance and ambulance jeeps lined up. Insignia of the United States on the vehicles. The ships underway in the background. The ships anchored at the harbor. Mountains in the background. A view of the water front.
U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bombers in the Pacific Theater during World War II. The aircraft in flight over an ocean. Aerial view of ships of a U.S. Task Force underway at sea.
United States Air Mail Service in Paris, France during World War I. A man shows the mail received by the U.S. Air Mail Service. U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson arrives. A crowd gathers and watches a van of 'United States Air Mail Service'. Men carry a bag of mail. President Wilson talks to a pilot and they shake hands. An aircraft on the ground.
A homestead on a farm in the U.S. Great Plains. Horse carts break the plains. A woman sweeps stairs. A man and a child stand on the plains near a plow. The homesteaders look towards the sky in hope of rain. An explosion on the land. News headlines: 'England declares war on Germany, Belgium invaded, French win at sea' and 'War news tumbles securities, Stock Exchange Closed, Wheat Prices Soar'. A man drives a tractor with a plow on a plain land and dust cloud rises. The plow breaks the plains. News headlines: 'Wilson proclaims war, Spy ring arrested, German ships seized' and 'War sends wheat soaring, Grain up 13 points, Pit in Pandemonium'. The postwar (WWI) decline of the wheat market results in overproduction and spurs dust bowl conditions: Farm machinery is used to sow the land. Wheat grains are poured into a thresher. A steamer at a sea. Tractors are driven and plows break the plains. A dust storm in the foreground. Overproduction of wheat shown. Farmers celebrate the production of wheat. Tractors driven in the Great Plains.
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