Video Parts (6 across 2 reels)
This clip is Reel 2, Part 1 of a 6-part film. Watch from the beginning
TRAINING IN FLANDERS AND YPRES-LYS OPERATION, MAY 24-SEPT. 3, 1918, 2ND ARMY CORPS, 27TH DIVISION Reel 2 · Part 1
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Reel 1, Gen. G.W. Read arrives at 2nd Army Corps hq., Fruges, France. Shows Gen. J.F. O'Ryan and 27th Div. officers at hq., Oudezeele, France. Wagons are loaded with rations at a Saint Laurent supply depot. 107th Pioneers and 102nd Engineers erect Nissen huts. 102nd Field Signal Bn. troops repair communication cables and use signal lamps and Very pistols. 108th Inf. troops load and fire Stokes trench mortars and French 37-mm guns, and spread apron-barbed wire over defensive positions. Reel 2, U.S. and Brit. soldiers practice firing the Vickers machine gun at Camiers. 102nd Engineers construct a communications trench at Belfort, Belgium. Shows 105th Inf. quarters at Beddelen Lerine, Belgium; the rubbled village of Boeschepe, France; 107th Inf. troops making crosses and placing flags on graves in an Abeele, Belgium, cemetery; and Gen. Read and aides at 2nd Army Corps hq., Fruges. Troops take gas mask tests with Y.M.C.A. theater personnel. Y.M.C.A. and 27th Div. units present a stage show at Oudezeele.
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