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MILITARY EQUIPMENT DELIVERED TO ALLIES BY GERMANS UNDER TERMS OF ARMISTICE [1918-1919] Reel 1 · Part 2
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Reel 1, a locomotive is derricked from the freighter Yellowstone at St. Nazaire. International Armistice Commission members arrive at the Hotel Britanique in Spa, Belgium: Gen. Rhodes, Brit. Gens. Adye, Haking, and Greene, Fr. Gen. Nudant, and Belgian Gen. Delobe. Shows former German dugouts in the area. Reel 2 shows locomotives and a Fokker airplane received at Coblenz; trucks being inspected and repaired at Montabaur, Remagen, Coblenz, and Bubenheim; guns being hauled from a fortress at Niederberg and from a factory; and guns from Fortress Ehrenbreitstein being inspected. Reel 3, German planes, a Pfalz D3A and an Albatross, are unloaded from railroad cars at Coblenz. The 463rd Aero Squadron erects a portable hangar for German planes. Gen. Mitchell watches as a Fokker plane is fueled, flown, and landed. Gen. Erwin and aides inspect guns at Metternich. Tractors pull the guns away. A string of locomotives travels along the Rhine near Ehrenbreitstein and is inspected and manned by U.S. crews. Shows other railroad equipment at Metz, France.
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