Anti-Aircraft Activities in the A.E.F, 1918

Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) (Most Recent)

Series : Historical Films, compiled ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985

Production Date: 1918?

Other Title(s): Historical Film, No. 1158
Use Restriction(s): Undetermined
Sound Type: Silent

Scope & Content: Reel 1, troops of the 35th Div., the 2nd and 148th Field Artillery Regts., and the 56th Engineers man antiaircraft guns and searchlights during German bombing raids in France. Shows the mechanical operation of antiaircraft tracking, sighting, and timing devices, and views of downed German planes. Reel 2, French units fire antiaircraft guns near La Chapelle, France. A German plane lands intact on an airfield near Verdun. Shows U.S. planes on the field and German planes abandoned near Thiaucourt, France.

Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RD-DC-M), National Archives at College Park
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National Archives Identifier: 24663
Local Identifier: 111-H-1158

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