PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 7 [Main Title]

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  • Title: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 7 [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 501-7
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  • Summary: US film of their own forces, chiefly in the Battle of Château-Thierry, Western Front, July 1918.
  • Description: I. The film starts with US and French troops parading through the Place d'Jena and the Avenue du Président Wilson in Paris on 4th July, followed by French troops clearing up bomb damage after a German air raid at La Ferté station on 14th July. II. Thereafter the film concentrates on the battle. 103rd Infantry Regiment, 26th (Yankee) Division going over the top near Château-Thierry at 4.35am on 18th July. A supply column drives into the town itself, which is in ruins. By 4.40pm 101st Engineers of the same division have bridged the Marne for transport. By 4.50pm they have put a pontoon bridge across at Château-Thierry itself. An observation balloon at Picardy Farm "under attack". 155mm guns of 146th Field Artillery, 41st (Sunset) Division, used in an anti-aircraft role, while its officers man an observation post at Torcy. 2nd Balloon Company at Picardy Farm on 22nd July repairing one of their damaged balloons. A posed group of men of 'D' Battery, 148th Field Artillery, 41st Division beside their gun. German prisoners being escorted down the Paris-Metz road. American intelligence officers question some of them in a ruined village. German prisoners at Lucy-le-Bocage, near Château-Thierry, on 21st July also being questioned. Men of 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Division escorting German prisoners, some carrying American wounded, to the rear, near Bouresches on 20th July.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 501-7
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 501-7)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1919
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: United States Army General Staff, Historical Branch, War Plans Division (Production sponsor) US Signal Corps (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: French Army (regiment/service) United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 26 & Infantry Regt 103 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 26 & Engineer Regt 101 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 26 & Infantry Regt 102 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 41 & Field Artillery Regt 146 (regiment/service) United States Army & Balloon Coy 2 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 41 & Field Artillery Regt 148, D Bty (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ceremonies, United States - event-related: Fourth of July (object name) society, French - friendship (object name) society, United States military - friendship (object name) destruction, French military - area: air raid (object name) buildings, French - commercial: railway station & [damaged] (object name) operations, United States military - sortie (object name) supplies, United States, movement [FA] - misc (object name) engineering, military, United States (object name) combat [simulated], United States - anti-balloon (object name) aircraft, United States - balloon: observation kite balloon (object name) weapons, French - gun: 155mm howitzer & [United States] (object name) operations, United States military - maintenance (object name) weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun & [United States] (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) intelligence, military, United States - interrogation (object name) casualties, United States wounded - battlefield (object name) 31/3(44) (event) 01/3(4-15).85 [1918 Château-Thierry] (event) La Ferte Station, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Place d'Jena, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Avenue du Président Wilson, Paris, Département de Ville de Paris, France (geography) Marne (River), France (geography) Château-Thierry, Aisne, France (geography) Picardy Farm, Marne, France (geography) Torcy, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Lucy-le-Bocage, Aisne, France (geography) Bouresches, Aisne, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 839 ft; Running time: 15 mins
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