Two Truckloads of Prussian soldiers drive into the Rhineland city of Koblenz to reinforce it during World War 1. They park near a shuttered Merchant hall and climb down to the street. They assemble and pose for the camera standing around a machine gun set up on the pavement. Scene shifts to view of an old fort partially destroyed.
Workmen dig with pickaxes to prepare holes for explosive charges to demolish a concrete embankment, during World War 1. Scene changes to the moment when demolition charges explode and the embankment collapses. View from under a steel bridge to the demolished structure across the river to where work is in progress to excavate the river embankment.
Austrian troops on the Eastern Front during World War 1 battling Russian forces. During a lull in battle, they move cautiously among fallen soldiers, on the battlefield, seeking to help any still alive. Austro-Hungarian medics find and retrieve one wounded soldier on a stretcher.
United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, United States. Artillery on a mounted area with buildings in background and view out over the Hudson River. United States Army cadets stand in line with rifles in their hands.
U.S. Army soldiers arrive at a training encampment by train. Soldiers in training each firing a pistol at targets on an open field. Groups of soldiers prone in a line firing rifles, then running across a field. The troops mount a wall obstacle. Again they lie prone and fire across a field. The troops are in training for mission to Veracruz Mexico following the Tampico Affair.
Mounted artillerymen execute various maneuvers with teams of horses pulling caissons and artillery pieces on a field at Fort Crook, Nebraska. They raise considerable clouds of dust during the maneuvers. Large units of cavalry practice formations and charge across the field brandishing sabers.