Video Parts (4 across 2 reels)
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BASE SECTION NO. 2 (BORDEAUX), ARRIVAL, UNLOADING, AND ASSEMBLING OF HEAVY EQUIPMENT [1918] Reel 1 · Part 1
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Reel 1, artillery arrives by rail at Saint-Sulpice. Artillery is craned from the hold of the freighter Anglo-Mexican at Bordeaux. Tractors are tested in the Bordeaux ordnance yards. Reel 2, Browning rifles are loaded on railroad cars. Powder is unloaded from the freighter Arakan, trucks and cars from the Absaroka and the Absecon, and water carts from the Balayl. Trucks are assembled on the docks. Animal rations are crated and put on carts. Portable machine shops are assembled in Bordeaux.
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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
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