The Story of Naval Aviation
This 1954 film tells the story of Naval Aviation from the Wright Brothers to WWI, including Airships, Carriers, WWII and beyond. Terrific history!
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WWI - THE SECOND (NEUFCHATEAU) TRAINING AREA, JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1918, 26TH DIVISION
Italian troops arrive at Neufchateau, troops with packs march by, troops in snowy trenches. Line of soldiers perform gas mask drill, man jumps on house, men work on horseshoes, clipping horses. Crowd attends religious service outside, priest speaks to crowd, army band, soldiers march in streets. Officers sit on horseback, soldiers march across a field while Gen. C.R. Edwards reviews 104th Infantry troops pass in review at Harrieville-les-Chanteurs, soldiers pose with civilians, pies baked for the 101st Inf., parade of soldiers led by band, funeral parade, burial at a Neufchateau cemetery, men carry coffin of dead soldier, seven gun salute.
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WWI Gas Warfare
Allied soldier in trench puts on gas mask, soldiers charge out of dug out as gas sets in, soldiers clean their guns and fire from a trench. Men crawl along trench. Soldiers wearing gas masks stand in trench, soldiers take off gas masks. Battlefield scenes, big guns fire into air, troops charge out of trenches, cannons fire, ground explosions, air planes, tanks advance, soldiers charge thru smoke. New film, weird add on. Armistice Day (1918), crowd celebrates in city streets, sailors dance with civilians.
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WAR AS IT REALLY IS - WWI
1916 film that shows trench warfare as close as it gets. Scottish infantry passes through Mametz. Telephone wire is strung. Troops throw grenades. Prisoners are marched to the rear. Joffre confers with aides. Tunnels are made under German trenches with air drills, mines are planted, and the trenches exploded. A spy is found, photographed and then shot dead. Machine guns are moved forward. Shows skeletons beside a burial trench. Hand grenades explode in German trenches. Troops charge German trenches. US Troops return home.
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Got Wire? - THE SIGNAL CORPS IN ACTION
Portable field kitchens approach Colombey. 310th Engineers raze a house in Sommerance. 304th, 305th, and 322nd Field Signal Bn. troops string telephone lines. Signal Corps troops erect telephone poles, send messages with heliographic lamps and semaphores; and operate field radios. French women operate Signal Corps switchboards in La Belle-Epine and Paris. Shows captured German defenses and a trench radio is assembled near Chatillon. Wires are spliced. Signal Corps troops are reviewed at Cour-Cheverny.
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Pershing's Crusaders
WWI Compilation Film. Made in 1936, this WWI footage features: Rubble in Belgium; the Lusitania and German naval ships in N.Y. harbor; Pres. Wilson in his office; and Liberty Loan statistics. Draft questionnaires are indexed. Army clothing and shoes are made. Shows a post laundry. Troops visit Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., and K. of C. clubrooms. Shows panoramic views of a shipyard.
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British WWI Film on the Mideast and other Naval Operations
Shows a camel train in Palestine; Turkish POWs; Gen Allenby; troops in Jerusalem and Mesopotamia; a gunboat on the Tigres; battleships at anchor; George V with Adms. Beatty and Sturdee; ships at sea; a Ger. U-boat and battleship. Last part covers a Brit. convoy. Allenby meets Jerusalem officials.
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SCENES NEAR THE SOMME OFFENSIVE
September 24 - October 21, 1918. Shows street scenes in Bellicourt and Nauroy. Brit. artillery shells German trenches at Busigny. Shows rubbled streets and a damaged cathedral in St. Quentin. Gens. Read and Simonds inspect sunken barges at Le Catelet, former enemy positions, and a U.S. cemetery. Shows an abandoned "Big Bertha" at Cappy-sur-Somme. Brit. and Australian engineers repair roads and railroads. French refugees leave Busigny and return to homes in Cambrai and Amiens. Civilians parade in Bohain. U.S. and Brit. troops sightsee in Premont and Australian troops entrain for rest camps.
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German Film of the WWI Sea Commerce Raider "Moewe"
German films of the commerce raider Moewe. The British schooner Duchess of Cornwell, the British steamers Cambrain Range, Georgic, Yarrowdale, St. Theodore, the Norwegian steamer Halljork, and the French steamer Nantes are halted at sea by the Moewe. German crews man the captured ships and some enemy crew members are transferred to the Moewe. The Nantes is scuttled. The Moewe returns to a German port and her commander, Count Dohna, is greeted by German naval officers.
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Film about the 94th Aero Squadron in France
Silent film covers most activities of the US Army's second air-combat squadron, the 94th Aero Squadron, informally known as the Hat-in-the-Ring Squadron. Featured many shots of Eddie Rickenbacker who became America's most celebrated aviator until Charles Lindbergh.
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THE AIR FORCE STORY - Chapter 1 - The Beginning
From civil war balloons to gliders, from the Wright Brothers to World War One - this is the first chapter of the story of the US Army Air Corps which later became the US Air Force. Includes Billy Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, the Lafayette Escadrille, WWI dogfights.
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Rare WWI Film - Featuring German Footage
This WWI compilation film features mostly German footage, but strangely has some fake US feature film images added. Also covers snow conditions from the Carpathian mountains of the west and the Alps and Vosges of the west. Also shown is the sinking of a U-Boat. Some shots look staged. Part three shows "homefront" images in Germany.
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ACTUALITIES OF THE WORLD WAR - The Best Compilation Film of WWI Yet
If you only watch one WWI film, make it this one. Four Parts. Made after the war, this film was an attempt to show the reality of war to a general audience that only read about it in the newspapers. Covers all years of the conflict, all types of weaponry and, of course, the brutal quagmire of trench warfare.
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How Allied Uniforms Were Made in WWI
Manufactured by women mostly, hundreds of them. Hats, boots, etc were all made by hand and piled into enormous heaps for delivery to the men who wore them.
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CAMOUFLAGE Tricks in WWI
Dummy heads attract gun fire. Shows the painstaking detail in making "fake" soldiers. Other amazing methods of secret concealment…
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SIGNAL Corps Activities During WWI
Motorcycles with side cars! Lots of them. A field wireless set in action. Lots of cool WWI technology, telegraph operations, installing cable, etc.
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WWI - FRANCE, various Allied activities
Infantry moves across fraonce September 1918. Ruins of the town of Saint -- Baussant, French refugees realased from german occupation. American Red Cross distributes chocolate to troops. Men occupy areas formely held by Germans. Piano playing, etc.
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WWI - Saint MIHIEL
How do you water 250 horses in an hour? Like this! German prisoners being used for litter carrying, field artiller, engineering, etc.
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WWI DOUGHBOYS go to the Front
WWI doughboys practice with bayonets, work with black soldiers, train with gas masks, communications, telephone, radio. Lay barbed wire, use haystack camouflage and march to the front.
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