WWI - 1917, Camp Sherman, Ohio & 83rd Division Training Activities

WWI - 1917, Camp Sherman, Ohio & 83rd Division Training Activities Title: The Division maintains a completely equipped Fire Department of its own. 01:08:46 Three soldiers on motorcycle & sidecar past Fire Department barracks as men open doors & trucks rush out. Vehicles backed into Fire Department. 01:09:12 Title: If your son or sweetheart is assigned to the remount station, the chances are he is either an expert horseman or will be one very soon. 01:09:16 Rider moving cutting horses & mules from large group eating in corral. 01:09:22 Title: Boxing not only makes for better health... Johnny Kilbane is the instructor. 01:09:29 Instructor & men following in group outside barracks. 01:09:50 Title: The boys are keenly interested... 01:10:01 British soldiers demonstrate bayonet & defense in game w/ US soldiers. 01:10:47 Title: Capt. Peck instructing in bayonet work. MCU with dummy rifle; group of recruits wearing protective gear following & practicing. 01:11:17 Title: Major Eric Fisher Wood keeps the boys on the jump. Another game as they try to hit target. 01:11:38 Title: Barbed wire entanglements are stormed & dummies bayoneted w/o mercy. LS men running & hitting hanging targets, & past obstacles. 01:12:13 Title: The competitive plan is also employed in bayonet practice, the men being awarded points for striking the mark. 01:12:19 High angle of men thru same obstacle course & bayoneting targets; women seen watching. 01:12:52 Title: Field artillery practice... Dummy guns are used for preliminary... Men rollout large dummy artillery & practice setting up & firing. Then working w/ reel artillery. Instructor timing them. 01:13:51 Title: French officers explain the famous Chauchat machine gun. French assemblying in front of group. 01:14:31 Title: French officers explain the famous Chauchat automatic rifle. One pull of the trigger fires 18 shells. One man standing, another on ground. 01:14:46 Title: Drilling w/ the new Enfield rifles. Recruits & instructors; men being timed, pretending to shoot standing & prone. Men practicing grenade throwing w/ French instructing. 01:15:35 Soldiers in winter coats running up snowy hillside w/ guns, ammunition stretchers. Jumping into trenches WW1; Draftees Training; 1917; 1918; Ohio