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Part 1 (Signal Corps), D.C. policemen drag veterans from a Pennsylvania Ave. warehouse and load them on trucks. Cavalry and tank units patrol the city. Part 2 (Universal Newspaper Newsreel), cavalry and tank units patrol. Shacks used by the Bonus Army are burned. Veterans are routed by tear gas. Part 3 (Paramount News) shows Bonus Army camp facilities at Johnstown, Pa., established after the eviction from Washington, D.C.

Navy ships pass a reception boat in New York harbor. Adms. Sims and Wilson, Sec. of the Navy Daniels, and Mayor Hylan review the incoming warships from the reception boat. Sailors parade through Times Square.

78th Div. troops camp at La Chalade. War correspondents, including Mark Sullivan and R. V. Oulahan, visit 78th Div. hdqrs. Shows a panorama of the Aire River valley. 307th F.A. troops practice signaling. 303rd Engrs. build a bridge at Grandpre across the Aire. 53rd Pioneers march along a road; Gen. Johnston views artillery fire on Cigarette Butte; shows captured positions. 316th Field Signal Bn. troops eat. Gens. Johnston and Pershing confer.

On World War I. Reel 1 shows rubble in Belgium; the Lusitania and German naval ships in N.Y. harbor; Pres. Wilson in his office; and Liberty Loan statistics. Draft questionnaires are indexed. Army clothing and shoes are made. Shows a post laundry. Troops visit Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., and K. of C. clubrooms. Shows panoramic views of a shipyard. Reel 2, ships are launched and shells inspected. Sec. Baker draws draft numbers. Draftees detrain, eat, and fight a mock battle at an Army camp. Shows aerial maneuvers. Naval guns are loaded and fired. Troops debark from the Leviathan at Brest, Fr. Pershing inspects troops. U.S. troops parade in Paris. Reel 3, Pershing, Marshals Joffre and Foch, Pres. Poincare, Amb. Sharp, Paul Painleve, Adm. Lacaze, and Gen. Dubail attend ceremonies at the Invalides. Signal Corps wire is strung. Shows bayonet drill. Engrs. and 1st Div. troops march to the front. Aviation units reconnoiter. Gen. Edwards reviews the 25th Div. Reel 4, communication lines are strung in trenches. Wounded are treated. Troops receive mail. Sec. Baker and Pershing inspect positions. German prisoners are brought to the rear. Pershing and Gen. Pouydrequin review French and U.S. troops. Shows Pres. Wilson at the White House.

Reel 1, women war workers' hotels are erected in Wash., D.C. Students drill, plow fields, plant corn, and spray trees on a Pa. farm. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson watches a "Milk for France" parade. Gen. Scott inspects vegetables in gardens at Potomac Park, D.C. Civilians parade on July 4th at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. Reel 2, civilian women drill, practice first aid, raise flags, send semaphore messages, and run through obstacle courses at a Calif. camp. Adm. Doyle and Gen. Blocksom participate in a Honolulu War Loan parade. Japanese children attend school. Workers buy War Savings Stamps on Honolulu street corners.

Ambulance drivers sign up at the Norton-Harjes office in Paris and detrain at a camp in France. Shows daily activities at the camp: reveille, the morning toilet, breakfast, inspections, cutting hay, digging trenches, and kitchen police. Gen. Pershing inspects troops and ambulances. Ambulances leave the camp, and pass through rubbled French villages. Wounded are carried on stretchers, loaded into ambulances, and taken to field hospitals.

The 102nd Engineers at Camp Wadsworth, S.C., clear brush, chop down trees, and level a roadbed into the camp. Shows a chapel constructed by the troops. The engineers leave the camp in a motor convoy, winch trucks from mud near King's Mountain, N.C., cross the Yadkin R., and arrive at Fort Belvoir, Va. Antiaircraft searchlights are installed, adjusted, and operated at Washington Barracks, D.C. A pontoon bridge is constructed.

Reel 1, bodies are disinterred at the Aisne-Marne cemetery, disinfected and cleaned, identified, wrapped in blankets, put into new caskets, loaded on railroad flatcars, transferred to barges, unloaded at a port, stacked and reidentified at a warehouse, and loaded on a ship. Reel 2, Ambassador Hugh C. Wallace and others place wreaths on graves in the Suresnes cemetery in France.

136th Field Artillery units use scissors binoculars as range finders, and load and fire 155-mm guns from Atton, France, into Germany. The 351st F.A. hauls guns into position at Maidieres. The 350th F.A. fires 155's at Dieulouard. 317th Engrs. repair roads at Ferme-de-Ponce. 58th F.A. units pull an auto from a ditch with a derrick at Bruley. Staff cars are washed at Millery by Negro troops.

Reel 1, draftees are examined, inoculated, issued clothing, and taught to salute. Shows Gen. Glenn and other divisional officers. Reel 2, soldiers box and play baseball and football. Supplies are unloaded from trucks and from the camp railroad train. Bakers mix dough and bake bread. Beeves are inspected at a cold-storage plant and trucks loaded with meat. A meal is prepared and troops eat. Reel 3, soldiers and women wash and iron clothes at a post laundry. A road route is surveyed. X-rays are taken, developed, and analyzed. Soldiers are examined and convalesce in the base hospital. An airplane lands and takes off. A tank pulls trucks. Shows the camp switchboard and post office in operation. Reel 4, the post fire department answers an alert. Johnny Kilbane gives boxing instructions. Troops storm emplacements and bayonet dummies. Field artillery pieces are moved into position. French officers demonstrate operation of the Chauchat machine gun. Troops drill and throw hand grenades. Reel 5, trench mortars are set up and fired. Shows a gas drill. Gens. Glenn and Chamberlain and Asst. Sec. of War Croweel review a division parade. Trenches are constructed. Reel 6, trench walls are strengthened with wire and sandbags. Troops eat in the field. Gen. Glenn talks to Y.M.C.A. personnel. Men read, write letters, eat cake, box, and dance at the camp Y.M.C.A., the Jewish Welfare Soc. building, the Knights of Columbus clubroom, and the Red Cross house. Reel 7, soldiers and visitors picnic on a weekend. Negro troops march, sing, and dance. Troops return from a march.

Cavalry men at Fort Sill, Okla., teach horses to stand while the National Anthem is played. Troopers at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, practice mounting horses on the run, jumping their mounts, riding cross-country, and standing inspection while mounted.

Reel 1, Rep. Joseph Cannon and other unidentified persons watch the testing of 75-mm and 105-mm guns; 4-, 6-, and 8-inch howitzers; and trench mortars at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. Reel 2, Renault and Mark VIII tanks are tested in Bridgeport, Conn. Asst. Sec. of War Crowell, Gen. C.C. Williams, and British military men observe the tanks in climbing, turning, trench-crossing, tree-smashing, and firing tests.

40th Div. troops at Camp Kearny, Calif:, exercise, practice boxing, load ammunition on caissons, and demonstrate artillery firing positions before Gen. Strong. At Fort Sill, Okla., tractors and caissons ford streams, and 3-inch field guns and 4.7 howitzers are moved into firing positions, loaded, and fired.

Replacement troops at Camp Meade, Md., practice the manual of arms, roll packs, and drill with full field packs. The troops get on trains at Camp Meade and board the transport Great Northern at Hoboken, N.J.

Troops at Camp Upton, N.Y., stage a mock battle, including a gas attack. Officers demonstrate how to test a gas mask. Electric sirens and rachets warn troops as gas bombs explode near trenches. Bottled gas is blown over the field; cavalry units don masks and spread masks over the muzzles of their horses. Troops beat gas from the trenches after an attack.

Peach pits are burned in furnaces and charcoal extracted and placed in drums. Rubberized fabric is marked and cut. Rubber-rimmed eyepieces are cemented in place. Nose clamps, head straps, mouthpieces, and breathing tubes are attached to the face pieces of the mask. Charcoal and cotton wads are placed in canisters and the canisters soldered and tested. The completed masks are tested.

Reel 1, troops set up and operate field radios and signal lamps on the Yale campus. Shows Yale Pres. A.T. Hadley and Anson Phelps Stokes. Reel 2, wire is strung and switchboards set up on the campus. Graduates receive certificates. Troops at Camp Meade adjust and use signal flags. Reel 3, troops and college students parade at Columbia Univ. Reel 4, stereoscopic slides are prepared at Cornell Univ. Lantern slides are made and placed in an aerial camera. Aerial photos are shot, developed, and made into an aerial map.

Reel 1, the 110th Field Artillery detrains at the Eckington Freight Yard, Washington, D.C. The 312th Machine Gun Bn. parades in D.C. 26th Div. troops are deloused and parade before Gens. Hale and Edwards and Gov. Coolidge at Camp Devens, Mass. The 25th Div. parades past Boston Common. Reel 2, the 165th Regt ("Fighting 69th") led by Col. Donovan parades in New York City. The 28th Div. led by Gen. C.H. Muir parades in Philadelphia.

Reel 1, prisoners are shaved, operate a printing press, work at brick kilns, blast rock in a quarry, apply crushed rock to a road bed, saw logs, plow, bale hay, cut corn, and fill silos. Reel 2, prisoners work on truck farms, tend livestock, build dairy barns, tend chickens, and construct barracks. Men are counted as they return to prison. Prisoners eat, are examined, exercise, and are interviewed.

Shows scenes of infantry soldiers training at Camp Grant, Camp Meade, Camp Hancok, Fort Humphreys. Camp Upton soldiers parade in New York City.

The 2nd Division parades up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., and 5th Avenue in New York City in 1919. President Wilson reviews the parade in Washington, D.C.

Troops of the 27th Division disembark from the ocean liners Leviathan and Mauretania at a New York City pier, and parade up 5th Avenue.

Manufacture of Military Aeroplanes, 1917-1918

Reel 1, the transports Leviathan, Agamemnon, Imperator, Kaiserim Auguste Victoria, and Patricia move through the harbor and dock at Hoboken, N.J. Wounded troops are placed on ambulances. Shows Sgt. Alvin C. York, Gen. William R. Smith, and battleships at anchor. Reel 2, Coast Guard cutters remove wounded from the transport Northern Pacific, aground off Fire Island. The transport Stockholm docks at Hoboken, 93rd Div. Negro troops (369th Inf.) debark, board a ferry, land at New York City, and parade through the city to Harlem. Gov. Smith reviews the parade.