U.S. Navy Fleet Review on Christmas Day, 1918, in New York City harbor. View from stern of a ship flying large American flag. Behind it are several other vessels, including a small ship flying the American flag. The wind is strong causing the flags to stand out sharply. Barrage balloons are seen in the sky overhead. The battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) passes nearby, with the ship's company lining her deck in formation around her railings. Sailors loading a deck gun to fire salutes from the camera ship, as a ferry boat passes in the background. A transport ship in camouflage is in far background. Army and Navy officers aboard the camera ship salute colors on passing ship (unseen). A Florida class battleship passing nearby with her company assembled on deck. A New York class battleship passing in review. Sailor firing deck gun in salute from camera ship. Another New York Class battleship passing in review. U.S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, and Secretary of War, Newton Baker, both in top hats, standing on deck of camera ship. The Statue of Liberty on Bedloes Island, in New York Harbor. The USS Texas (BB-35) passing in review, with a Camel Sopwith airplane on a launch platform installed atop her gun turret number 2. More battleships making way in trail formation. Aerial view from low altitude of the USS Arizona (BB-39).
Opening scene shows a British Siege battery of several 9.2 inch howitzers. View from a protected position, of a huge shell exploding. A formation of French Spad airplanes in flight. A French Renault F-17 light tank traversing rough terrain near a forest. Bombs being dropped by hand from an open cockpit airplane. Three bombs exploding on the ground. German troops running past the camera. Glimpse of others in a trench in the background, who appear to be wearing Pickelhauben. Explosions with dense white smoke. A fallen soldier on a litter, on the ground. Nighttime view of artillery flashes. Troops silhouetted against fires burning in the background as they move at night. Smoke blowing across the scene, as artillery fires. A railroad gun firing. A battery of two French 320 mm railway guns. A shell exploding in a field. French 320mm gun firing. Two French 370mm railway guns. One is firing. A soldier sheltering in a deep shell hole and smoke rising all over No-Man's Land. Wounded soldiers recuperating in a hospital. Patients and medical staff posing for photographs in a ward. Signing of the Kellogg-Briand (Pact of Paris) outlawing war, on Aug. 27, 1928, at the Palais D'Orsay, in Paris, France.
The American Expeditionary Forces ( AEF ) in France during World War I. Troops in a jeep. Other soldiers nearby. Flak bursts in the sky. Troops of the 35th Infantry Division, the 2nd and the 148th Field Artillery Regiments and the 56th Engineers man anti aircraft guns during German bombing raids. Mechanical operation of antiaircraft tracking, sighting and timing devices. Two soldiers look through an instrument on a tripod stand. Other soldiers nearby. Soldiers load and fire an anti aircraft gun. Aircraft in flight. The soldiers handle antiaircraft shells. A soldier near the wreckage of a downed German 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 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.
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