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Flame projector is the latest instrument used by French troops, France, in World War 1

On the Western Front flame projector is the latest instrument used by French troops in WWI. French troops demonstrate a flame projector, also called, flame thrower. Flames come out of the instrument.

Date: 1916
Duration: 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025508
United States troops move against German counterattacks, Belgian civilians flee during the Battle of the Bulge (WWII)

Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.

Date: 1944, December
Duration: 2 min 49 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675080038
Charles Lindbergh acclaimed by large crowd in Brussels, Belgium after flying from Paris following his transatlantic crossing

Crowds gather to welcome aviator Charles Lindbergh in Brussels, Belgium. Lindbergh arrives at Brussels after flying from Paris, following a reception after completing his solo transatlantic flight. Crowds outside the Paris Hotel de Ville (Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris, France) during Lindbergh’s tour. Lindbergh motorcade arriving in the center of Brussels. 'Spirit of St. Louis' plane in flight, from Paris to Brussels. Brief view of Evere airfield, Brussels, Belgium. View of crowd packed into Great Place (Grote Markt, 1000 Brussel, Belgium) in Brussels. Charles Lindbergh, standing on balcony of Brussels Town Hall (Grand Place 1, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium) waves his hat to the cheering crowd.

Date: 1927
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074469
Willian Jennings Bryan campaigning for Wilson in 1916. President Wilson accepting the nomination in 1916.

Willian Jennings Bryan, campaigning for President Wilson, as a private citizen, in 1916 (after having resigned as Wilson's Secretary of State). He stands in a car decorated with patriotic bunting and an American flag, in front of modest house in a rural area. Bryan is accompanied by several associates. A popular Wilson campaign photograph (coming loose at the top) is attached to the car door . The writing under Wilson's picture is not legible. As Bryan sits down in the car, his wife, Mary, is seen next to him. (She had been blocked from the camera while he stood.) The car drives away. In complete change of scene, a crowd is seen completely filling the lawn and grounds of "Shadow Lawn," President Wilson's Summer White House, at Long Branch, New Jersey. They have come to celebrate his renomination as Democratic candidate for President. Camera pans over the crowd. Next, President Wilson is seen standing on a step in the center of the garden, acknowledging and accepting the nomination.

Date: 1916, June
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675035175
Various WWI events: German submarine Deutschland leaving US; sinking of SMS Szent Istvan; survivors of Lusitania

Variety of events in World War I years. German merchant submarine Deutschland (a British blockade buster) in 1916 in the United States (then neutral), departing New London, Connecticut on November 21, 1916 headed back to Germany carrying silver bullion. The submarine had just completed repairs following a collision with the tugboat T.A. Scott Jr. when first attempting to leave New London on November 16, 1916. The North German Lloyd Shipping Company submarine Deutschland is seen leaving the dock at New London, Connecticut. The officers on the submarine Deutschland wave. Periscope of submerged submarine is seen slicing through calm water. Sailor on an Italian destroyer blows general quarters call on bugle. Another sailor brings a telescope on deck. Next, crew members fire their deck gun at periscope in the water. Change of scene the shows the destroyer making way, leaving visible wake, astern, as crew members load and fire depth charges from the ship's stern. View of a submarine underwater. Exploding depth charges raise huge columns of water. Underwater view of submarine shows columns of bubbles nearby. View of Austro-Hungarian Battleship SMS Szent Istvan (Saint Stephen), capsizing and rolling after it is torpedoed off the Dalmation Coast of the Adriatic Sea by Italian torpedo boats on June 10, 1918. Survivors being rescued in small boats. View of a merchant vessel at dock and in a harbor. View of survivors of the May 1915 Lusitania disaster, with belongings, arriving in a harbor. Men and women with children posing. Two small girls pose among the group of Lusitania survivors.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055044
Ambassadors from Netherlands and Belgium speak about the German attack on their territories during World War II.

Ambassadors from Netherlands and Belgium in the United States. Official from Netherlands speaks about the German attack. He states that Germany has violated all norms. Netherlands is resisting the attack in its full power. Belgium ambassador talks about the German attack and the strategies to defend Belgium made by King Albert I of Belgium.

Date: 1940, May 15
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044331