SIGNAL CORPS ACTIVITIES IN THE WORLD WAR
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SIGNAL CORPS ACTIVITIES IN THE WORLD WAR Produced: 1921
Description Reel 1, 117th Field Signal Bn. troops ride motorcycles in training at Lames, Fr. Shows riders arriving at and leaving Fruges. The 105th Bn. sets up and operates field radios; the 107th charges batteries at Aincreville; the 117th strings wire; the 2nd inspects telephone cable. The 161st Inf. digs trenches. Reel 2, the 307th Bn. operates a trench digger near Ansauville. Switchboards are assembled, cable is laid, telephone lines are spliced, and wires are repaired in combat areas. Shows clogged traffic at a Montfaucon crossroads. Reel 3 shows pigeons at Langres. Birds are taken to the front on motorcycles, protected during a gas attack, and released. Pigeons arrive in Domptail. Shows a 5th Bn. post in Saarburg, Ger., and warehouses at Cievres, Fr. Reel 4, the 8th Bn. marches toward Beauvais; the 105th leaves trenches at Premont; the 2nd rides across the Moselle at Alf, Ger.; the 8th enters Puttelange, Belg.; and the 314th occupies Arlon. Muie's and wagons are loaded at Maron, Fr. Ger, equipment is examined at Conde-en-Barrois. Reel 5, troops exercise. Shows ruins in Aincreville; Ger. dugouts in Mont Sec; 2nd Bn. splicing wire; captured propaganda balloons; Fr. refugees at Montreuil; billet and mess facilities; the decoration of 112th Bn. officers; and the 101st Bn. and the 102nd F.A. celebrating of the Armistice.
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