PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 6 [Main]


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  • Year: 1919
  • Runtime: 12 mins
  • Description: Secretary of State for War Newton D Baker visits American troops hospitalised at Romsey in England. The rest of the film is of France. An American Infantry band plays in a damaged barn in the Argonne. Inside a barn one gunner tends the breech of his 75mm field gun while another rests by a pile of shells with a cat for company. In Saint Mihiel itself the statue of Gerard Richier has been removed during the German occupation leaving the plinth. The undamaged Pont-à-Mousson (despite the caption this was in Allied hands throughout the war). An American observation post in 1st Division area overlooking Hattonchâtel. A Belgian small calibre coastal defence gun recaptured from the Germans. Two American soldiers (one may be A L Browning) show that an unexploded German 220mm shell tore through their tent soon after they left it and buried itself in the ground. American sappers repair the roads in Fey-en-Haye. In recaptured Hattonville they have replaced signposts such as "Hindenburgstrasse" with "Washington St". One of their Renault FT17 light tanks (the American designation is M1917) bulldozes another sign. Shells and stores in an abandoned German supply dump at Vigneulles. A portable German searchlight captured in a deep dugout at Saint-Remy. German prisoners of war being marched away. Villagers reading a French newspaper in recently-liberated Hattonville.
    US film of their own forces, mainly in the Saint Mihiel salient following the Battle of Saint Mihiel, Western Front, September 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Baker, Newton Diehl / Browning, A L / United States Army & American Expeditionary Force / United States Army & Div 1 / delegations, United States national - political / medical, United States military - hospital / recreation, United States military - music / weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun & [United States] / animals, mammals: cat / demolition, German - symbolic / weapons, Belgian - gun: coastal gun & [captured] / engineering, military, United States / propaganda, United States - inspirational / armour, French - tank: Renault FT17 & [United States] / demolition, United States - symbolic / supplies, German, storage [FA] - misc: [captured] / equipment, German - fire control: searchlight & [captured] / defences, German - emplacement: [captured] / prisoners of war, German - movement / journalism and record, French - press: newspaper / 01/3(4-15).95 [1918 Saint Mihiel] / 31/3(41) / Romsey area, Hampshire, England, UK / Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France / Pont-a-Mousson, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France / Hattonchâtel, Meuse, France / Hattonville, Meuse, France / Vigneulles, Meuse, France / camera / World War, 1914-1918 -- Motion pictures and the war
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: US Signal Corps
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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