Construction of the Crocodile Highway Pile Bridge in Wesel, Germany during World War II. Bulldozers and a pile driver move down a hill towards the site of the newly constructed bridge. Soldiers lay down logs in proper order for the flooring of the bridge. They nail the floor of the bridge under construction. The soldiers use air hammers to nail down. Few other soldiers carry pile towards the construction bridge site. A pile driver moves along a road at the newly constructed bridge site. A roller rolls down the ground and levels it for the bridge construction.
U.S. Army troops celebrate Armistice in France at the end of World War I. Group of soldiers gathers for a mock funeral. A soldier digs a shallow grave, while another provides a wooden grave marker. Two soldiers carry a German shell. The grave markeer reads 'Burial of last Boche shell, A Dud'. The soldiers bury the German shell. A soldier covers the buried shell with earth.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs papers and sheep on the White House lawn in Washington DC after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson in his office. The President signing papers on his table. Sheep moves on the White House Lawn. The President watches outside his window. He talks over a telephone. The President works in his office. The President with some officials signing papers.
U.S. Admiral William Sims, steps from a car and walks toward a building guarded by several British policemen (Bobbies) in London, England. Next, he is seen posing with two of his staff. Scene shifts to London street, where a military officer gives some directions to Winston Churchill who tips his top hat, as he steps into a waiting automobile. In the streets, crowds fill the sidewalks as they watch musicians on the roof of a double-decker bus, celebrate the armistice ending World War 1.
Men work at fabricating siege mortar shells. A shell blank is heated over a furnace and then transported to a machine where it is formed, while still glowing, into the desired shell shape. A number of finished shells is shown in a yard. Next, men are seen welding the shells. Finally, men are shown filling them with gunpowder. They pound the gunpowder into the shells using wooden rams and wooden mallets (to avoid creating sparks). A worker is seen topping off a shell with gunpowder, from a ladle, pounding it tight, and fastening a cap on the top. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Men and women work at belt-driven lathes on a crowded machine shop floor in an armaments factory during World War 1. A stack of machined shell cylinders sits on the floor. In another area of the munitions plant, workers are seen with large shells and caps for them. At another machine shop, workers turn large diameter shells in lathes. Camera pans across various work stations where different manufacturing processes are taking place. Closeup of a woman working on a standard size lathe, and of other women working in the machine shop. Men and women sealing hot shells and handling them large tongs. Women working on small caliber ammunition. Women stacking finished shell in trays. Women weighing out gunpowder into sacks, and others loading the sacks into boxes that they dump onto open shells, where women use them to fill shells. A group of women placing objects into shells (fuses?) and sealing them, as a superviser watches. A man taking the shells from a conveyer belt and packing them in boxes. Another area of the plant where items are packed into containers. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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