A United States Army training film about chemical warfare. United States soldiers light toxic candles (yielding only smoke in this training operation). Smoke rises from the candles and spreads in the surrounding area. U.S. troops wear gas masks. A soldier lights the toxic candles placed in a line on the ground.
A United States Army training film about the chemical warfare service. United States Navy battleship USS Tennessee (BB-43) serves as training target for U.S. aircraft dropping smoke bombs onto the USS Tennessee. Explosions around the battleship. Smoke rises all around the ship.
Canadian troops in West Flanders, Belgium near Ypres and Albert during World War 1. An animated map shows the region and the Somme River. Canadian troops hunkered down in grass and shrubs on a hill overlooking flat terrain. Shells exploding on horizon in background. A large contingent of Canadian troops marching downhill with left-shouldered arms. Senior officers walk out of a courtyard gate. Next, General Sir Sam Hughes, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence, is seen shaking hands with several officers. Scene shifts, after he greets only two, and shows Canadian troops marching in platoons along a dusty road. Next, Canadian soldiers are seen moving supplies by horse-drawn wagons along a tree-lined road leading into a town. Final scenes show the war-damaged Albert Basilica. The camera pans upward, along its tower, to the Golden Virgin statue at its top, which is leaning precariously to one side, almost falling off its base. (The statue became the subject of British superstition that the war would end when the statue fell. But British artillery, itself, knocked it down while targeting the tower to prevent its use by the Germans as an observation post, during the 1918 Spring offensive)
A rocket barrage and attack push off in Mosbach, Germany during World War II. Soldiers of United States 18th Field Artillery Battalion load and fire multiple rocket launchers. Explosions with smoke fuming in the area. U.S. soldiers camouflage the rocket launchers. United States 3rd Armored Division vehicles drive towards Mosbach. German shell bursts near the convoy.
A rocket barrage and attack push off in Mosbach, Germany during World War II. United States 3rd Armored Division vehicles drive towards Mosbach. U.S. soldiers on an army truck with rifles and equipment. M5A1 light tanks, half-tracks, trucks and M8 armored cars drive on a dirt road outside the city. The convoy of armored vehicles drives past a country house.
United States soldiers in Arnaville, France during World War II. The soldiers construct a bridge across the Moselle River in heavy rain. A group of United States engineers at work. A soldier uses an acetylene torch on a section of the bridge.
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