The Minister of Agriculture, Ferdinand David, and the former deputy for Colmar, the Abbé Wetterlé, leave the town hall with their followers, led by three young girls dressed in the regional costumes...
I. Men of Sixth Army board a troop train at a station. Others march along roads to the battlefield, between Noyon and Amiens. Conditions are very foggy. Soldiers rest as a horsed transport column pass...
Three British, one French and three Belgian soldiers walk through an archway. French soldiers of I Corps, on foot and in lorries, pass in both directions down an undamaged street with Belgian troops. ...
The men are French I Corps and British II Corps to the south. A mixed posed group of British and French soldiers talk with one another. British officers watch a French 75mm field gun crew opening fire...
The "Deuxième Bataille Offensive de Verdun" opens with a bombardment. A 145mm naval gun firing under tarpaulin, showing its loading mechanism clearly. Other guns join in - a 155mm heavy howitzer, a 7...
The location is a town behind the Western Front. The conscripts, still in civilian clothes, march forward with US soldiers to lay wreaths on the graves of French and US soldiers.Outside the cathedral ...
The general area of Ypres. Filmed from just outside the town itself, shells falling on buildings on the outskirts. Two Mark V tanks, one Male, one Female, both carrying soldiers, move over open countr...