# AMERICA'S ANSWER

AMERICA'S ANSWER Produced: 1918 Description On U.S. activities in World War I. Reel 1 shows Wilson and Pershing; a destroyer-escorted convoy; Engrs. dredging a marsh and constructing wharves at Brest, Fr.; and troops debarking. Reel 2, Austro-Hungarian POW's unload supplies. Engrs. fell trees and snake logs from a forest. A refrigeration plant is erected and stocked. Reel 3, locomotives are unloaded at Bordeaux. Trucks are loaded with supplies. Bread is baked, French women sew camouflage onto canvas. Lumber is camouflaged with paint. Reel 4 shows camouflaged troops in the field. A small dam is constructed. Shoes, harnesses, and saddles are repaired and clothes are washed in a QM shop. Reel 5, French women sew clothing. Artillery horses are unloaded from a freighter. Soldiers shoot dice. Nurses comfort wounded at a base hospital. Y.M.C.A. and Salvation Army women distribute refreshments to troops. Reel 6, infantry trudges through mud toward the front. Food is carried from a field kitchen to the trenches. Artillery convoys pass through rubbled villages. Reel 7, antiaircraft guns are fired. Ger. bombs explode near a command car. Shows scenes at a base hospital. Reel 8 shows a Memorial Day service (1918) in a cemetery. Gen, Edwards and Maj. Theodore Roosevelt, decorates troops. Artillery is pulled into firing position. Reel 9, Marines await orders to advance. Cantigny is shelled and infantry charges. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35573

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1918
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-m-316-r7)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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