WWI - 1st (Gondrecourt) Training Area, July 5 - September 19, 1917, First Division, 1936

WWI - 1st (Gondrecourt) Training Area, July 5 - September 19, 1917, First Division Gondrecourt, France Pan of barren rolling hills & fields w/ road snaking through, some brush. 05:02:01 Gondrecourt camp. Troops at attention, reviewed; officers mounted & marching band leading troops. 05:04:40 Convoy w/ trucks & marching troops along road toward camera. 26th Inf. troops do Callisthenics in open field as officers watch. 05:06:32 Troops dig trenches in very rocky soil. Walls of trenches w/ reeds, sandbags & building barbed wire protective fences. The 2nd Field Signal Bn. sets up & transmits messages by radio & signal lamp. Field lines tested w/ telephone. Men recording signals. 05:10:25 Target practice & exercises on rifle, bayonet, hand grenade, and machine gun ranges. Machine guns are dismantled. 05:13:44 37-mm guns and trench mortars are loaded and fired. Firing machine gun from foxhole & moving on thru trenches. More mortar firing. WW1;