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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250113-03
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1917-1918
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Location:
TC Begins: 08:20:46
TC Ends: 08:28:38
Duration: 00:07:52
NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWI - France: USA Marine Fighting & Medals Intertitle: This is how the Marines fought at Belleau Wood. LS explosion & smoke; firing over field from behind brush / stick barricade. Soldiers laying on ground firing by orchard trees in winter. 08:21:30 Intertitle: A regular fighting man from the U.S.A. Firing from foxhole; advancing. running across plowed field in distance as soldier firning in foreground. Troops thru woods. 08:22:15 Intertitle: Caissons forward, double time! Along road w/ town in middle distance. 08:22:39 Intertitle: Digging gun emplacements in new advanced positions. W/ pick & shovel. Guns firing, MS. Explosions in distance & troops out of trenches & forward. GOOD 08:23:39 Intertitle: The harvest of the guns - the price the enemy paid - and lost. Officer walking past debris & bodies, pans across field. Canal or wide ditch filled w/ bodies 08:24:43 Intertitle: Prisoners - they surrendered to a photographic officer armed with an empty pistol. It cost us millions to sock this pen with Germans. MCUs. 08:25:01 Intertitle: Our troops enter Chateau Thierry - a name written large in American history. Marching thru ruins (dark) & rubble. Pan of city form across river w/ destroyed bridge. 08:26:06 Intertitle: The emplacement of a Big Berth, Germany’s long range gun. Troops around large steel base, soldier holds shell casing. 08:26:38 Intertitle: General Pershing decorates some of our heroes. Reviewing troops, presenting medals, pins on & shakes hands. 08:27:47 Intertitle: The Lost Battalion, surrounded, four days w/o food, half his men slain, Major Whittlesey answered the Germans: Go to Hell! We n... LS & MCUs. Two officers shake hands. Soldiers walk & look at cemetery crosses. WW1; Note: some nitrate decomposition. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk