Filming the American Attack on Château-Thierry (Western Front, 1918)

Report by Lt. Edwin H. Cooper, photographic officer of the 26th Yankee Division, on how he and his camera team filmed the attack near Château-Thierry on July 18 and 20, 1918.

Report from "Photographic History of the 26th Division" (1920). Pictures and footage are in the public domain and come from the U.S. Signal Corps collection in the National Archives at Washington, D.C. Special thanks to Harry B. Kidd for sharing his pictures of World War I cameramen from this collection.

Footage showing attack on Torcy on July 18, 1918, has also been found in the collection of the Imperial War Museum in "Pictorial History of the World War, No. 7". Record number IWM 501-7.

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