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WWI - 1918, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26 to November 11, 1918, First Division Reel 2 of 2

Reel Number: 220745-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1918

Country: France

Location: Exermont,Romagne

TC Begins: 05:30:06

TC Ends: 05:45:01

Duration: 00:14:55

WWI - Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26 to November 11, 1918, First Division Reel 2 of 2 Man watching w/ binoculars as 6th F.A. guns bombard a hill near Exermont; men working on telegraph in trench & sending message; field telephone lines; 05:31:14 LS of valley w/ road, troops down to road, others dug in opposite. Explosions beyond. Caissons moving up valley away from explosions. 05:34:27 Men firing machine guns; wounded carried past dead cart-horses. Stretchers laid in field, wounded treated & loaded into ambulance wagon. Men through village after battle - many injured. 05:38:49 Chow served beside tent. 05:39:19 Parker confers with aides outside rustic log house. 05:39:53 Gen. Marshall greets Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, wife of Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., at Romagne in front of badly damaged building. 05:41:11 French Refugees return to Bois de Berlier escorted by US troops along muddy road carrying large bundles, some push wheelbarrows. 05:42:27 Gen. Summerall addresses the 18th Infantry from horseback. Other VIPs. WW2;

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