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...
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 ...
The Higher Invention Committee studies the cannon wheel invented by Captain Cordier, on muddy ground.