Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26 to November 11, 1918, 1st Division

(This film is silent)
National Archives Identifier: 24914
Local Identifier: 111-H-1412
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24914

From: Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Other Title(s): Historical Film, No.1412


Scope & Content: Reel 1, the 28th Inf. occupies Chevenges; the 5th F.A. and 26th Inf., Nouart; and the 1st Engrs., Romagne. Shows refugees, supply wagons, ammunition dump fires, and muddy fields. Gen. Parker talks to refugees. Germans shell Thelonne, Charpentry, and Fleville. 16th Inf. troops take shelter. Reel 2, 6th F.A. guns bombard a hill near Exermont. Parker confers with aides. The 18th Inf. digs in. Wounded are carried by prisoners and treated. Gen. Marshall greets Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, wife of Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., at Romagne. Refugees return to Bois de Berlier. Gen. Summerall addresses the 18th Inf.

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