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American soldier displays a Lewis machine gun. Another soldier test fires it at an American Army base in World War I

An American soldier, at a U.S. Army base in World War 1, displays a Lewis machine gun without a shroud. He holds it at various angles for the camera. Next, a soldier is seen test firing the Lewis gun set up on an improvised wooden stand in an open field. View from beside the soldier as he fires the gun. Another view from behind him as he fires downward into a ravine.

Date: 1918
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048409
American airman demonstrates maneuverability of Lewis machine guns installed on De Havilland DH-4 airplane in World War I

American airman standing in observer's cockpit of a De Havilland DH-4 aircraft, during World War 1, demonstrates the flexibility of twin Lewis machine guns installed on a Scarff ring. He rotates the twin guns through various angles and elevations as he moves up and down, himself, in the open cockpit. He then turns his attention to a single Lewis gun mounted atop the upper wing. He removes the gun's ammunition cannister and replaces it with another.

Date: 1918
Duration: 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048411
Bomb release machanism is demonstrated during World War I

Film opens showing bombs installed in racks under bottom wing of a airplane in World War 1. Glimpse of a Vickers machine gun mounted on the fuselage below the cockpit. Scene shifts to inside the airplane cockpit, where a hand actuates a lever on bomb release mechanism. View from outside as bombs are released sequentially from the underwing racks, where they fall harmlessly a few feet to the ground under the parked airplane. Next, an airplane is seen diving toward the ground and releasing bombs that then explode sequentially on the ground, along the line of flight.

Date: 1918
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048413
Several Renault FT light tanks maneuver in France during World War I

A dozen Renault FT tanks move in loose formation across a field during World War 1. One maneuvers in rough terrain and descends into and out of a deep shell or bomb crater. The group of Renault FT tanks moves at high speed across a flat field. A Renault FT stops and demonstrates movement of its turret and of its 37mm gun.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048414
American soldiers fire 37 mm guns in various configurations during World War I

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in France, employ several configurations of 37 mm guns. One is mounted on a vehicle upon which three gun crew soldiers sit while it is fired by another standing behind the truck. Another 37mm gun is fired from tilted and highly elevated position in wooded area. Another view of the. truck-mounted 37 mm gun,stabilized and counter-weighted. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048415
AEF soldiers disassemble, carry, and reassemble light mountain gun during training in France, during World War I

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) training in France during World War 1. Soldiers pull small mountain gun on wheeled carriage. They then remove it from the carriage, and one carries the barrel and another carries the mount and trails to firing location where they reaasemble it and begin firing it, with one placing shells in the gun and the other aiming and firing. They proceed to fire the gun while officer and other soldiers observe. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048416