Video Parts (5 across 2 reels)
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DEMONSTRATION OF ORDNANCE MATERIEL AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUNDS, MARYLAND, 1920-1926 Reel 2 · Part 2
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Reel 1, railroad guns, antiaircraft guns, and artillery pieces are loaded and fired. U.S. and German artillery tractors stage a tug-of-war. Browning machine guns fire at a target. An airplane and mortars lay smoke screens. Shows maintenance, milling machine, and generator mobile trailers. Tanks and planes cover infantry advances. Reel 2, Gen. W.R. Smith and West Point Cadets view demonstrations of a Christie tank, antiaircraft guns, 16-inch coastal guns, and bombing operations by a Keystone bomber.
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
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