The save food campaign in the United States during World War I. Senator George Earle Chamberlain, of Oregon, representing the Agricultural Committee, coordinating the Food Control Bill within the Senate. He sits with another Senator, who signs off on the Bill. Herbert Hoover, Head of the U.S. Food Administration, leaves the White House, enters his car, and drives away. Hoover in several poses.
French red cross nurses aid in care of French soldiers during World War 1. Nurses greet railroad train carrying French soldiers. Nurses work at food line giving hot food to a line of French soldiers. Injured soldiers being looked after by doctors and nurses and nuns at a hospital in France. A nurse tries to feed a patient lying in a bed. Close up view of another nurse sitting by the bed of a wounded soldier. A nurse opens a veranda door onto a sun porch where injured soldiers are recovering. French soldiers on terrace in the background. Nurses and soldiers on the terrace as they relax and enjoy. Nurse adjusts cast and bandage on a soldier's arm. A soldier on crutches and a nurse look at a chart. Nurses and French soldiers walk down a corridor. A nurse helps two blind soldiers walk down the stairs of the hospital and they walk into a garden. Sign over hospital door includes "XV Region Service de Sant Hospital Complemental Hermitage" Soldiers are helped by the nurse as they sit onto a bench. The sun sets and soldiers along with the nurse walk on a beach. (Beach location and Mediterranean foliage implies this is likely a hospital at Bastia on the island of Corsica, France used by the Allies in World War I).
American Army soldiers in France during World War I. U.S. Army soldiers outside a building and marching. Close up views of an elderly French woman and her elderly husband. The woman refugee carries a large load of her belongings on her back. Allied troops advance in the background. Men and women and children French civilian refugees carry their belonging along as they flee from their homes near the war front. American Army soldiers march alongside and one soldier helps a civilian girl push a wheeled cart with her belongings along muddy, dirt roads.
War material funded by Liberty Bond drive in the United states during World War 1. Naval ships being constructed with factories in the background. View of shipyard and partially completed warship. Biplanes lined up in a field. An aircraft takes off. A massive railroad gun artillery piece pulled by a locomotive on railroad track. Workers seen sittin on the whole length of the massive rail gun barrel, and then climbing down. Children sit near the rail road track. A U.S. Navy battleship of World War I anchored at harbor and a submarine underway at sea.
A flight of three Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group, make a formation takeoff at Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. Next, two flights of three aircraft each, take off in a formation of six P-40s. Scene shifts to a formation of 15 P-40s in flight overhead. The aircraft return and land by flights of three, in formation. Closeup of several taxiing, with canopies open, after landing. A flight of three with landing gears down, flying on a downwind leg in formation. Closeup of two P-40s touching down on the runway. All three squadrons of the Group (33rd, 35th & 36th) appear to be represented.
View from the front, of Curtiss P-40 aircraft, from the U.S. Army Air Corps 8th Pursuit Group parked side-by-side with engines running on the flight line of Mitchel Field, Long Island, New York. View from their rear. Next, three flights of three aircraft each are flying at low altitude, over the shore and waters of Long Island.
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