Group of instructors and students stand in front of O-38 airplane in Rockwell field, California. Pilot and student board the plane. Cockpit of O-38 shows controls and instruments panel. O-38 instrument panel shows artificial horizon, altimeter and ball-bank indicator. Closeup of the Sperry artificial horizon instrument. A chart of Artificial Horizon shows how the instrument operates. A Directional Gyro in the hands of a pilot. This is marked as a 'Turn indicator A.C. type B-2' Chart shows how the directional Gyro operates. Sensitive Altimeter in hands of a pilot. A rate of climb indicator in the hands of a pilot.
U.S. 2nd Field Signal Battalion troops (AEF) getting their food in a chow line at an Army field kitchen alongside rail cars at Maron, France, during World War 1. They step aside as a steam locomotive arrives on the track next to them. Some soldiers sit on railroad equipment as they eat their meal. Several others cook over their own fire. Change of scene shows German prisoners of war being marched to the rear, and through a town near Catigny. A few are wounded, but ambulatory. One is carried on a litter, by his comrades.
Mules, of the U.S. Army 2nd Field Signal Battalion, stand on a railroad platform, waiting to be loaded aboard a train, in France, during World War 1. Soldiers tending them stand nearby. Sacks of food sit on the platform. Soldiers coax a mule across a ramp into a train car. In another scene, 1st Division troops load war materiel aboard open cars of a train. A group of soldiers works to roll a French 75 artillery piece up a ramp onto the train. Another large group works to roll a heavily laden wagon up on to the train. (WWI. WW1)
2-man Renault FT Light Tank being demonstrated during World War 1. It moves through various wooded areas and negotiates steep inclines. (Note: Following the war, this type of Renault tank was often referred to as the FT-17.)
Montage of British artillery firing in World War 1. A British 60 pounder. A British 9.2 inch howitzer. Batteries of British 18 pounders firing from various locations.
A British gun crew firing an 18 pounder during World War 1. They are stripped to the waist and rapid-firing their field piece. British gun crews firing 60 pounders and 9.2 inch howitzers. British gun crews firing 18 pounders on a field.
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