- Title: VM-1116A
- Summary: THE BIG PICTURE:
- Description:00:03:00 - AMERICAN SOLDIERS ON TROOP SHIP TO BE DEPLOYED IN THE GREAT WAR WWI. AMERICAN TROOP SHIP DOCKING, SOLDIERS BEGIN TO DISEMBARK FROM SHIP 00:03:08 - LS- AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE UNDER GENERAL PERSHING POUR INTO FRANCE FROM TROOPSHIPS. 00:03:20 - LS- CATTLE CARS FULL OF TROOPS ROLL TO THE FRONT 00:03:28 - MONTAGE- SOLDIERS FIRE RIFLES FROM THEIR TRENCHES 00:03:37 - MS- PERSHING WITH MARSHAL PETAIN OF FRANCE MS- PERSHING SHAKES HANDS AND SALUTES EACH OF HIS OFFICERS AT FRONT AND INSPECTS THEIR POSITIONS. 00:04:36 - MS- A LONG COLUMN OF ARMY TRUCKS GOING ONE WAY AND A MOTORCYCLE WITH A SOLDIER IN THE SIDE SEAT GOES THE OTHER WAY. (WWI) 00:04:41 - MS- AS A GERMAN FIRE HIS RIFLE FROM A TRENCH, ANOTHER THROWS A HAND GRENADE (WWI) LS- SHELL EXPLODES IN FRONT OF 2 ADVANCING TANKS 00:04:46 - LS- LONG COLUMNS OF GERMAN TROOPS MARCH TO THE FRONT. GERMAN SOLDIERS IN THE TRENCHES UNDER FIRE 00:05:00 - MONTAGE- DOUGHBOYS OF THE NEWLY FORMED 1ST ARMY RIDE WAGONS PULLED BY MULES AND FOLLOWED BY FOOT SOLDIERS, THROUGH A BOMBED OUT VILLAGE. (WWI) 00:05:25 - MONTAGE- TROOPS STREAM OUT OF THEIR TRENCHES AT A FULL RUN AS A CRUCIAL ATTACK BEGINS FOLLOWING A HEAVY BOMBARDMENT AS THE 1ST ARMY ATTACKED ST. MIHAEL IN IT'S FIRST SUCCESSFUL BATTLE. 00:06:00 - MS- GENERAL PERSHING PINS MEDALS ON 1ST ARMY OFFICERS AFTER THE BATTLE. 00:06:32 - MA- PHOTO OF COLONEL GEORGE C. MARSHAL WHO PLANNED AND DIRECTED THE MOVEMENT OF 600,000 MEN IN COMPLETE SECRECY FOR THE MEUSE-ARGONNE CAMPAIGN. 00:06:49 - MONTAGE- TRUCKS, HORSE AND WAGONS, CAVALRY AND TROOPS ON FOOT TRUDGE THROUGH THE MUDDY ROADS. 00:07:00 - MONTAGE- ARTILLERY CREWS PASS THE AMMUNITION AS A 3 HOUR BARR SOFTENS UP THE ENEMY. AGE 00:08:08 - MS- IDLE DOUGHBOYS WRITE LETTERS HOME AND PLAY CARDS NEAR THEIR FOXHOLES AFTER THE ARMISTICE IS SIGNED. THE 1ST ARMY STAYED IN FRANCE UNTIL 1919. 00:09:13 - LS- PAN OF HUGE PICNIC FOR THOUSANDS OF RETURNING DOUGHBOYS IN THE NYC POLO GROUNDS FOLLOWING A PARADE DOWN 5TH AVENUE. (ALSO SHOWN) 00:09:30 - MONTAGE- SOLDIERS WITH TRAYS OF FOOD AND FEMALE RED CROSS WORKERS FILL THE GROUNDS. 00:09:50 - MS- GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SALUTES THE 1ST ARMY AS IT PASSES IN REVIEW IN 1933. 00:10:17 - MONTAGE- MASSES GERMAN TROOPS MARCH AS THEIR ARMY DOMINATED WESTERN EUROPE BETWEEN 1930 AND 1944. 00:10:31 - LS- COVERED DEAD BODIES LINE THE STREETS IN A EUROPEAN CITY. WOMEN PRAY AT CRUDE CEMETERY WITH WOODEN POSTS TO MARK THE GRAVE 00:10:45 - MONTAGE- GERMAN OFFICERS EXAMINE THE HUGE FORTIFICATIONS ON THE FRENCH COAST. 00:11:00 - MONTAGE- GIS PLAY CARDS AND LOUNGE IN THE CRAMPED QUARTERS OF A TROOPSHIP. 00:11:40 - MONTAGE- TROOPS TRAIN INTENSELY FOR THE INVASION. 00:12:10 - MS- GENERALS EISENHOWER, BRADLEY AND FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY PLAN THE INVASION. 00:12:40 - MONTAGE- MINES, BUNKERS TANK TRAPS COVER THE COAST AS THE GERMANS WAIT. 00:14:36 - MS- GENERAL BRADLEY CLIMBS ONTO A BRITISH FROM A LANDING CRAFT ALONGSIDE ON D-DAY. 00:14:37 - MS- COVERED DEAD BODIES LINE THE BEACH AS OTHERS WHO WERE WOUNDED RECEIVE PLASMA AS MEN AND EQUIPMENT MOVES ONTO THE BEACHES AND INLAND. 00:16:44 - MS- CIGAR SMOKING GENERAL COURTNEY HODGES WHO TOOK OVER BRADLEY'S COMMAND. 00:17:00 - MONTAGE- GERMAN TROOPS DIG IN AND TANKS MOVE UP. 00:18:30 - LS- GENERAL DEGAULLE REVIEWS U.S.TROOPS IN PARIS 00:20:19 - MONTAGE- SCENES FROM THE BATTLE OF THE 'BULGE'. 00:21:23 - LS- GIS RUN ACROSS THE REMAGEN BRIDGE UNDER FIRE AND SECURE IT. MS- A GI AND A LIEUTENANT TELLS HOW THE BRIDGE WAS TAKEN. 00:23:44 - LS- A PONTOON BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION ACROSS THE RHINE COMES UNDER ENEMY SHELL FIRE. LS- THE REMAGEN BRIDGE FINALLY COLLAPSES UNDER IT'S OWN WEIGHT. 00:24:36 - LS- GIS WHO WERE ON THE BRIDGE DURING THE COLLAPSE ARE PULLED TO SHORE WITH ROPES AND COVERED WITH BLANKETS. 00:25:15 - LS- WHITE FLAGS HANG FROM THE WINDOWS OF GERMAN VILLAGE OF REMAGEN 00:26:00 - MONTAGE- GERMAN PRISONERS AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE. 00:26:18 - MONTAGE- EMACIATED CONCENTRATION CAMP PRISONERS BARELY ALIVE ARE HELPED BY GIS. MS- A MAN WITH HARDLY ANY FLESH LEFT ON HIS SKELETAL BODY. 00:27:06 - MONTAGE- GIS AND RUSSIAN TROOPS MEET AND HUG EACH OTHER. MS- A RUSSIAN SOLDIER GRABS A GI AND PLANTS A BIG KISS ON HIS MOUTH. 00:27:35 - MS- GENERAL HODGES AND A RUSSIAN GENERAL SALUTE AS A BAND PLAYS RUSSIAN ANTHEM 00:27:42 - LS- THOUSANDS OF WHITE CROSSES IN A MILITARY CEMETERY (PAN). 00:28:11 - MS- 1ST ARMY TROOPS CARRY THEIR DUFFLE BAGS ONTO A TROOPSHIP HOME. 00:29:20 - AERIAL- 1ST ARMY TROOPS MARCH IN VICTORY PARADE DOWN NEW YORK CITY AVENUE.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1917
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1910s
- File Name: VM-1116A