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WWI - ca 1918, France: St. Quentin Fighting w/ Injured & Dead; Longmont; Balkans w/ Poincare]
Intertitle: “And soon a few come back with their string of prisoners.” French troops on foot & in tanks escort Prisoners of War up dirt road. Walking wounded.
10:32:42 Intertitle: “A German tank is captured...” French soldiers in trenches. Tank on its side; bodies of German dead as fallen. Wounded or dead carried on stretcher; pushed across field on cart. Troops walk up steep road. Man on crutches helped out of damaged building.
10:33:56 Intertitle. German POWs soldiers laying on ground or sitting in camp.
10:34:17 Flash title: “St. Quentin once more became a desperate battlefield as the Franco-British-American forces beat the enemy back from the Hindenburg line”. Pan troops & military equipment in valley. French cavalry along road past ruins. Large LTA observation balloon carried; rising w/ basket below, vehicle w/ cable to balloon past on road. Troops & supplies moving to front. Light artillery fired. LS pan across explosions on barren land w/ trenches visible; anti-aircraft guns fired to protect balloon. Digging emplacements or trenches along roadside. Wrecked German equipment including tank; pan destroyed landscape. Troops rest in ruined town, moving thru. Run for cover. Dead horses w/ wagons. Medic & dead French soldier. Pan movement to front & trenches dug. MS Wounded on stretchers carried to ambulances & column of ambulances past. Troops & supplies moving to the front; armored cars, motorcycles. German prisoners. Tanks l. to r. Troops on horseback.
10:40:43 Flash title: “French & Americans, side by side, prepare to push on once more where the Germans are forced back across the Marne”. Pan French soldiers in sandbagged position & in trench. Troops digging in grass along road. Move across wide grassy field; around treeline. Wounded, injured & POWs coming back from the front.
10:43:27 Intertitle re entering Longmont, troops & wagons. Ruins of abbey, damaged buildings, troops move across field past waterfilled craters. Wagons & troops along road
10:44:56 Intertitle: “In the Balkans...General D’Espere, Commander in Chief, greets the Commanders of the Allied Forces of Salonika”. High ranking French & Greek officers shaking hands & saluting.
10:45:16 Intertitle: :Here is the beginning of a nation - President Poincaré reviews the first regiment of Czecho-Slovaks...” Civilians & military VIPs reviewing massed troops on field. Soldiers march past w/ unit flags & bayoneted rifles. Black soldier visible.
WW1; Medical; Battles; Fighting; Destruction; Death;
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