Flashes of Action: Actualities of the World War

Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent)
Series: Documentary Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1944
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Date: ca. 1921
This film is silent.

Scope & Content: Reel 1, Gen. Pershing poses at Lucey, France. The liner Leviathan leaves Hoboken, N.J. Troops dance and stage boxing matches aboard the freighter Wilhelmina and the transport Tenadores. Guns aboard the destroyer Little are fired and depth charges are dropped from the destroyer Whipple. The Leviathan enters the harbor at Brest. 306th F.A. troops entrain for the front. 39th and 58th Inf. troops advance under artillery support near Montfaucon. 308th Inf. troops run through maneuvers at Gondrecourt. 16th Inf. troops advance behind tanks near Seicheprey. 110th Engrs. blow up barbed wire at Aux Bois. 35th Div. troops cross the destroyed defenses. Reel 2, 18th Inf. troops receive aid at Exermont. 139th Inf. troops man trenches near Verdun. 128th inf. snipers man posts at Michelbach, Germany. Troops throw hand grenades in training. 7th F.A. units fire gas shells into the enemy lines. Thiaucourt and Rambucourt are shelled by the Germans. A German observation plane crashes and the pilot is captured. 5th, 21st, and 130th F.A. guns are fired. Reel 3, the 103rd inf. "goes over the top" near Torcy. 305th and 306th Inf. units march toward Longueval. Pershing decorates 42nd Div. troops at Bagneux. A German plane is shot down by antiaircraft fire after setting an observation balloon afire. 6th F.A. batteries lay down a barrage near Exermont. 168th Inf. troops crawl into "no man's land." 7th F.A. guns fire near Beaumont. Reel 4, railroad and naval guns are fired behind the lines. 128th F.A. units fire French 75's. British tanks maneuver at Langres. 103rd F.A. guns shell an ammunition dump at Ostel. DH-4 airplanes are prepared for flights at Bergues and Clermont. 148th Aero Squadron planes fly in formation and bomb German lines at Essoudon. 5th, 149th, and 150th F.A. guns fire at German trenches illuminated by searchlights. Shows dead Germans and captured positions. 4th Inf. troops enter Bacharach, Germany. 105th F.A. troopsrejoice at Etraye, France, after receiving news of the Armistice.

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Local Identifier: 111-M-50
Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35458