PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 5 [Main Title]
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- Title: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 5 [Main Title]
- Film Number: IWM 501-5
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- Summary: American film of 1st Division ('Big Red One') just before the Battle of Saint Mihiel, Western Front, 9th-12th September 1918.
- Description: Watering horses of 1st Field Artillery Brigade in the Forêt de la Reine, just north of Boucq, with considerable military traffic congestion. Men of 18th Infantry Regiment advancing in 'artillery formation' (ie very dispersed) across open fields. Limbers ('caissons' in American usage) of 6th Field Artillery moving past the ruins of Seicheprey, and men of 'C' Battery under Captain I R McLendon digging emplacements for their 75mm guns near Mont Sec. 'D' Battery, 7th Field Artillery, in action. American soldiers flush three Germans from a dugout (acted ?). The first German prisoners captured in the Battle of Saint Mihiel being marched away, 7am 12th September (?). Other German prisoners on the Beaumont-Seicheprey road on 9th September. Men of 1st Ambulance Company under Captain E F Fisher at the advanced dressing station at Richecourt. 'C' Company, 1st Engineers, repairing a wooden bridge with guns of 5th Field Artillery behind them. Batteries of 6th Field Artillery cross a bridge built by 1st Engineers over the trenches. Men of 1st Division moving up between Seicheprey and Saint Baussant. The ruins of Saint Baussant filmed through a shellhole in a wall.
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- Colour: B&W
- Digitised: Yes
- Object_Number: IWM 501-5
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 501-5)
- 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: McLendon, I R (person) Fisher, E F (person) United States Army & American Expeditionary Force (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Field Artillery Bde 1 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Infantry Regt, 18 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Field Artillery Regt 6, C Bty (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Field Artillery Regt 5 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Field Artillery Regt 7, D Bty (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Ambulance Coy 1 (regiment/service) United States Army & Div 1 & Engineer Regt 1 (regiment/service)
- Keywords: animals, mammals: horse (object name) operations, United States military - preparation (object name) operations, United States military - sortie (object name) weapons, French - gun: 75mm field gun & [United States] (object name) combat, United States - artillery bombardment (object name) prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) medical, United States military - emergency (object name) engineering, military, United States (object name) destruction, French military - area: artillery bombardment (object name) 01/3(4-15).95 [1918 Saint Mihiel] (event) Boucq, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France (geography) Seicheprey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France (geography) Mont Sec sector & Beaumont sector, Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France (geography) Richecourt, Meuse, France (geography) Saint-Baussant, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France (geography) camera (concept)
- 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: 918 ft; Running time: 16 mins
- HD Media:Yes
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