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WWI - Flashes Of Combat Action

Public Domain Stock Footage WWI - Flashes Of Combat Action

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keywords: wwi, france, world war i combat, chemical attack

Synopsis: Combat action from World War I with scenes of snipers, a chemical gas attack, artillery firing, night attack, the Allied Commanders of WWI and more...(read more)

  • Date: 1918
  • Duration: 00:08:22
  • Sound: No
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: France

WWI - Flashes Of Combat Action

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WWI - Flashes Of Combat Action

World War 1 actions in France shot under battlefield conditions in 1918.

Shot List:

00:00:31;11

Crack shot infantry soldiers were kept busy on the front lines in WWI. Soldier aiming and firing a model 1917 US Enfield rifle. Soldiers in a battlefield trench. Camouflaged snipers moving into position. US soldiers rushing through a captured village or town as these became targets of German artillery fire as the Germans retreat.

000:01:56;12

WWI artillery crew in action as soldiers load and fire artillery gun as fast as possible. Artillery stops only to put on gas masks and then resume firing. Explosions of artillery shell hitting battlefield targets. Artillery crew of larger gun puts on gas masks, fires artillery gun from camouflaged gun emplacement.

00:03:30;11

Observation balloon attacked by enemy plane. Observer bails out of observation ballon, shows open parachute. Observation balloon catches fire and falls in a flaming wreckage. Shelling enemy headquarters as artillery crew fire for range and then hits the target with explosive shell.

00:04:19;08

Desolation and death on a WWI battlefield. Night firing of artillery guns and explosions of artillery shells hitting battlefield targets. Use of flamethrowers in WWI.

00:05:00;20

French field artillery in action. Guns fire over the heads of column of horse drawn wagons and weapons carriers. Brief image of an Italian machine-gunner. British raiders bringing in captured German prisoners.

00:06:18;06

British rushing up horse-drawn artillery to the battlefield crossing a stream and over rough terrain. A fatal shot of a artillery shell hitting fleeing soldiers on horseback. A siege howitzer firing in WWI. Mine explosions. Images of Allied Commanders WWI, CU of General John J. Blackjack Pershing.