After a panorama of the village of Fleury, a 75 mm battery takes some shots. An infantry makes headway in the countryside. Then, English generals inspect a battalion of chasseurs à pied (light infant...
Interaction between heavy artillery on a railroad and the air force during the Somme offensive: the role of optic telegraphy and aerology. The artillery and air force in the Verdun region: loading and...
In August 1918, Parisians stand in line in front of the Félix Potin grocery store in order to get a few potatoes. On the sixth of the same month, others wait on Rue de Buci for some wine.
A scientist does parachute rocket launch tests in a field. Then officers and Jules-Louis Breton examine the Delamormaz gun mechanism;
In a field, soldiers, officers, civilians and Jules-Louis Breton, members of the Invention Department Committee, study the manoeuvrability of military equipment used to transport ammunition.
Lefrancois, a father of six, is a soldier. His seventh child is on the way and will be named Victory. Lefrancois cannot remember why he tied a knot in his handkerchief. Although he has received the Wa...
The Higher Invention Committee studies the cannon wheel invented by Captain Cordier, on muddy ground.
Between April and August 1918 in Paris, a city where human activities have not stopped, historic monuments and park statues are camouflaged and protected from the bombings. A 280 mm canon, taken from ...