WWI Newsreel Excerpts

WWI Newsreel Excerpts Pathe - France American push - US troops on horseback ride past camera. Horse drawn carts loaded with shells. French? soldiers cross river by bridge. 21:00:40 American soldiers digging trenches & training with Lewis Gun 21:01:25 German shells on Yankees. Longueval France. Explosions as troops run across fields. 21:02:48 With the American Army of Occupation - Fritz blowing up his dumps. Pan over rooftops of town - smoke rising. American advance cavalry on move 21:03:31 Alphonso XII in Verdun - speaking with Catholic priest, walks through ruins of church? At train station. With press or VIPs ? 21:05:05 Old American Army; Western Front. Troops drive covered wagons and ride on horseback. Military trucks travel line abreast. 21:05:41 ? troops walking across field, snow on ground - try to keep warm. Issued with rations. ? troops on horseback down country road. Ambulance wagon. 21:06:47 Big gun firing ? troops fire from trenches, wounded man helped from trench. Women sit in rubble. Troops getting soup. Officers looking at debris in bomb damaged town. 21:09:01 Railway gun moved and fired - troops in trenches. Explosions. Field gun / artillery fired. Remains of buildings and churchyard. Injured man put into ambulance. British or US troops advance. 21:11:25 Animated map detailing Luxembourg and France and Germany - campaigns 21:12:29 French? troops in trenches. Artillery fired 21:12:52 US Naval warships at anchor. US troops on dockside waiting to board transport ships. Boarding ships 21:13:59 Naval recruitment drive on beach - men signing up. Battleships underway. 21:14:28 Soldiers on parade ground at Camp Franco-American. French and US officers in group chatting. Flags of France and America raised side by side. 21:14:57 Mock battleship in US street. for bond rally? US troops march down 5th Ave?- military parade 21:16:04 Unid location. Heavy field guns pulled by oxen across pontoon bridge. Artillery fired. Military training. Railway gun. WW1; Royalty; Fighting; Medical; Military training; Railway gun;