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WWI - The Aisne Operations May 31st - June 5th 1918 - Third Division R1 of 2

Reel Number: 220680-02

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1918

Country: France

Location: Chateau-Thierry,Montmirail

TC Begins: 16:17:12

TC Ends: 16:31:43

Duration: 00:14:31

WWI - The Aisne Operations May 31st - June 5th 1918 - Third Division R1 of 2 Long shot over wide valley, countryside; smoke rising in far distance from German shells. 16:21:28 Troops on horseback along road, w/ wagons. 16:21:55 Fleeing civilian refugees walking in sun; clog roads at Montmirail - on foot & w/ horses & wagons. 16:22:49 Group of women w/ their cows grazing on roadside. RV Refugees away down country road. 16:23:12 US troops at Montmirail railway station w/ civilian women & children watching. Soldier w/ three young children. 16:23:42 Army medic & others help old woman & old man onto raiilroad flatcar; Medics or Red Cross workers carried stretchers into large building. Soldiers moving hand carts; talking; loading wounded into trucks. Ambulances & many troops outside train station. New troops marching past. Crowd around wounded. 16:25:30 The 7th Machine Gun Bn. passes thru town. 30th Inf. troops march thru Chateau-Thierry & toward the front. 16:26:35 Troops march down country road towards camera, passed by open sedan. Some on bicycles. Military trucks in convoy passing the marching troops. GOOD. 16:29:02 Truck convoy slowly past camera on rough & dusty road. LS trucks from other direction passing. 16:30:07 Troops march thru town. Troops march over hilltop past monument & down road past oncoming truck. WW1 Advancing Allied Soldiers;

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