The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers man searchlights during German bombing raids. Soldiers near a searchlight. Mechanical operation of the searchlight. The shutters in front of the lens of the searchlight open. The searchlight is mechanically rotated. The shutters close. The searchlight is positioned. It gives out a beam of light at night.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. An aircraft in flight. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers mechanical operate antiaircraft tracking, sighting and timing devices. Several soldiers look through instruments on tripod stands. Two soldiers look through an instrument on a tripod stand. Two other soldiers look through a different instrument. A soldier looks through an instrument. Two soldiers look through an instrument. A soldier with earphones stands nearby. Soldiers man an antiaircraft gun. Other soldiers nearby. Antiaircraft shells are picked up, passed and loaded in the antiaircraft gun. The gun is fired. Aircraft in flight overhead. Flak bursts in the sky. People around piles of dry wooden sticks.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers in a forest. They fire a mounted gun from a dugout. A downed aircraft.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers in a forest. Three soldiers sitting on the ground. Two of them load ammunition belts. Explosions in the background. The third soldier mans a mounted gun. A soldier standing nearby looks skywards through binoculars. He helps the soldier manning the gun. The gun is fired. Soldiers near downed German aircraft.
Meeting of National Recovery Act officials. Men put a lock on a Brooklyn poultry farm. Close up of the lock on the door. President of the American Federation of Labor William Green is seen as narrator explains that the shuttering of the poultry farm by the NRA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
A camera installation in a United States Lockheed U-2C aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States. The camera bay of a U-2C aircraft on a trolley. An airman threads a film in a cassette and puts a cover on the cassette. He then works on a timer as he synchronizes it. A cover being placed on the cassette. Men push the camera bay on the trolley near the U-2C aircraft. They install the cassette in the U-2C camera bay of the aircraft.
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