Soldiers of U.S. 5th Marine, 2nd Battalion with French Second Army soldiers at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops in trenches. The troops enter a bunker. The soldiers come out of the bunker. The soldiers are wearing coats and hats due to cold weather. A U.S. officer plays with a dog. The troops carry guns with bayonets. A bayonet drill. The soldiers in trenches with bayonets in their hands. They march forward for the drill. They move out of the trenches and put the bayonet in a dummy. The soldiers practice again. The dummies are hanged from a rope. The troops practice on the dummies. A dummy in the center and the troops practice on it.
U.S. 5th Marine 2nd Battalion with French Second Army at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops in trenches with rifles with fixed bayonets in their hands. A thin covering of snow is on the ground and it appears to be lightly raining or snowing. The soldiers come out of a bunker with gas masks. Some soldiers are already wearing the gas masks and others are hastily putting them on as they emerge from a covered trench into an open trench. The soldiers walk in the trenches. A medical unit passes by in a trench with red cross armbands and one soldier carrying a folded up stretcher or litter. The troops move out of the bunker and stand near a cooking cart or kitchen cart with a boiler. They are handed large vats of hot water, soup or other liquid. Scene changes to an outdoor ceremony with many civilians present, including many women. A French soldier stands nearby as the civilians pull white ribbons from an evergreen tree that is covered by the decorative ribbons. An American Army soldier helps reach a ribbon high in the tree to hand to a civilian.
U.S. 5th Marine 2nd Battalion with French Second Army at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I.. U.S. troops put barbed wires in the field. They stand in a line. The troops make barbed wire fences for defense. A U.S. officer checks the barbed wires and talks to the troops. The soldiers in prone position try to cross the fences. The soldiers have guns and bayonet attached to it. The troops advance.
U.S. 5th Marine 2nd Battalion with French Second Army at the Third Bourmont Training Area in France during World War I. U.S. troops wear gas masks and get ready for a gas drill. The soldiers with bayonets in their hands. A soldier talks over a radio which is attached to a tree. The troops are seated. A U.S. soldier sitting on a wooden log writes on a paper. The troops around a car. They look into the paper and talk. A horse in the background.
U.S. 5th Marine Regiment in Chateau-Thierry, France during World War I. U.S. troops on a cart and enemy equipment kept in front of the cart. The troops display the enemy equipment. The soldiers stand around the equipment and watch it. They unload the enemy equipment from a truck. A portable machine ship services tires. The soldiers work on a tire. A soldier fills air in the tire of a bike. Troops work on the portable machine in the background. The soldiers work on the motor and the radiator. The 2nd engineers hold religious services. Supplies being distributed among the troops.
USS Yorktown CV-10 in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. U.S. Naval officers and sailors discuss over a map on a table. Animated map depicts Japanese fleet positions on the Truk Atoll of Islands. USS Yorktown Navy flier squadron and squadrons from other carriers take off for combat over the Truk Islands. Sailors talk over the radio aboard USS Yorktown. A map shows the heavily fortified islands surrounded by air strips, and naval anchorages among the islands. Crewmen aboard Yorktown prepare the planes for take off. Machine gun fire from the planes over the Truk Islands. They dive bomb the island. The aircraft are hit and descend to the ground. A plane drops into the ocean. U.S. airplanes bomb Japanese planes on fighter strips, bomb bases and sea plane ranches. Smoke due to heavy bombardment. Planes dive and drop bombs. Fire due to bombing of a fast fleet tanker hiding in a sheltered cove. U.S. bombers and fighter planes strafe other fleet auxiliaries including rice boats, transports and ammunition ships. They are set on fire with 50 caliber incendiaries and armor piercing plugs. The ships on fire sink into the ocean.
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