The "Deuxième Bataille Offensive de Verdun" opens with a bombardment. A 145mm naval gun firing under tarpaulin, showing its loading mechanism clearly. Other guns join in - a 155mm heavy howitzer, a 7...
The Prince talks with French staff officers in a snowbound wood. Getting out of his car at another location he walks into a wood with his party. The group poses for the camera.The French troops have s...
French soldiers on the Acropolis on 25th June guarding Athens from the Parthenon. They are armed and have machine gun posts set up, but there is an element of sightseeing in their behaviour. This is f...