"War As It Really Is:" Rawest Combat Footage of World War One

The most authentic, rawest, intriguing and close quarters combat footage of World War One.
REEL 1:
Man wearing gas mask (probably Thompson) takes it off.
Exchange of telegrams between Leslie's and Thompson re: shooting of this film.
VIEWS AT SALONICA
Preparing a seaplane with folded wings for flight aboard a seaplane carrier.
Putting the seaplane over the side.
Seaplane taxiing and taking off.
Aerial view of Salonica harbor.
Aerial view of British and French destroyers.
Seaplane landing and taxiing to ship.
Hoisting plane back on board ship.
Folding wings and stowing plane in hold
Uncovering an observation balloon on board ship.
Launching the observation balloon
Aerial view of mother ship from balloon.
Aerial view of Salonika harbor from balloon.
Lowering the balloon and stowing aboard ship.
REEL 2:
VERDUN--GREATEST CAMPAIGN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WCIRLD
A ruined church at Herbecourt.
French wounded killed when church they were in was hit.
Ruins at Maricourt.
An unexploded aerial bomb.
Scenes of the town of Verdun.
Fortifications near Verdun.
Soldiers washing clothes in the Meuse near Verdun.
Ruins at Verdun.
Fighting a fire caused by German shelling in the town of Verdun.
A hospital hit by German shells.
Ruins near Verdun.
A dead German.
Abandoned German artillery.
German prisoners marching to the rear under guard.
Prisoners pumping water.
Prisoners behind barbed wire.
THE SOMME OFFENSIVE
Joffre and Poincare at the front.
General Pau inspecting front line troops.
General Pau decorating a unit flag.
General Joffre reviews French and Russian troops.
REEL 3:
Infantry and cavalry moving up to the front.
THE EYES OF THE ARMY--THE FRENCH AIR FORCE
DIDIQ Observer boarding the car of an observation balloon.
An observation on balloon ascending.
An observer parachuting from a balloon
Folding the parachute.
LS French aircraft on ground.
French aircraft taking off and landing.
Aerial views of farmlands.
A dogfight.
Antiaircraft guns firing.
Antiaircraft shells bursting.
A German aircraft in flight
The wreck of a German airplane.
REEL 4:
RAPID TRANSIT ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
Trucks moving up towards the front.
Machine gun carts moving up to the front.
Dead French soldiers beside a truck which was hit by a German shell.
Trucks and a narrow-gauge railroad train moving along a road.
artillery moving along a road.
A ration dump.
A supply dump.
Moving supplies up to the front lines.
Infantry marching along a road.
Armored cars moving towards the front.
artillery drawn by oxen crossing a pontoon bridge.
Loading and aiming a 16” railroad gun.
A Quaker fun.
A Camouflaged gun.
Loading and aiming a big gun.
Stacking ammunition at an ammunition dump.
REEL 5
ON THE YSER
Small river gunboats moving along the Yser River.
Gunboats firing.
Loading, aiming, and firing camouflaged big guns.
Shells exploding in distance and set fire to target.
THE CURTAIN OF FIRE
Shells bursting along the horizon.
A 75mm gun firing.
A pile of empty shell gases.
Shells bursting on the horizon.
Infantry moving along a communication trench.
LS Artillery firing
Shells bursting on horizon.
Artillery firing.
Loading a big gun.
Machine gun section moving through captured ~German trenches.
IN THE TRENCHES
Ruins at Hardecourt.
An artillery observation post.
Officers studying a map.
German observation balloons in the sky
A French artillery command post.
Reinforced concrete trenches.
Clearing gas from a trench.
A machine gun.
An armored observation tower.
REEL 6
Highlanders (in kilts) passing through Mametz.
Stringing telephone wires.
Abandoned German trenches.
Lighting hand grenades with a cigarette and throwing.
Infantry passing through a woods.
Prisoners marching to the rear.
Joffre and French officers.
Trenches.
Using a compressed air drill to tunnel under the German trenches.
The air compressor.
Exploding the mine.
A German officer caught in civilian clothes about to be shot as a spy.
The dead spy.
Camouflaged 75mm guns.
IN THE JAWS OF DEATH.
Night firing by artillery.
A bridge.
75mm guns firing.
No-Mans-Land showing a skull and some bones.
Skeletons beside a burial trench.
A wrecked German gas plant.
Bringing forward machine guns.
Troops in trenches.
A dugout.
Sounding a gas alarm.
Boxes of hand grenades.
Hand grenades exploding in German trenches only forty yards from the French.
German gas shells exploding.
A 120mm Mortar firing gas shells.
Shells bursting.
Infantry charging across No-Mans-Land.
Artillery firing.
Shells bursting.
75mm guns firing.
Shells bursting.
REEL 7
THE INFANTRY ATTACK
Infantry going over the top.
Germans surrendering.
Shells exploding.
German prisoners moving through French trenches.
Infantry advancing across No-Mans-Land.
Shells bursting on horizon and in foreground.
Infantry advancing.
German prisoners crossing No-Mans-Land.
Prisoners in a stockade.
Searching prisoners.
Abandoned German ammunition.
Mutilated corpses.
German prisoners marching to the rear.
The French flag.
The American flag.
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[@lllordllloyd]

I feel a little ashamed I am seeing this for the first time... but more, grateful to you, again. I spent the French summers 2016-19 exploring and guiding the Great War battlefields, including Verdun.
In Verdun, one can see and touch fortifications of three distinct eras: pre-gunpowder vertical defences, the Vauban era defences show in the film, and the 'modern' fortifications such as Douaumont and Vaux, the focus of the 1916 fighting. And there is of course the Ossuary and the enormous cemetery that surrounds it. Nobody who has been there would dare speak of 'French cowardice'.
I was also interested to see the little-known and little-recorded Russian units that fought alongside the French.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@lllordllloyd wow, I can think of few summer jobs more fulfilling than that! Thank you for sharing, it’s quite interesting. Given your background, you should really enjoy the footage. Also, I just uploaded this :-) thank you always for watching and commenting!

[@leebagdon6922]

Amazing, the first part of reel 1 shows the float plane just 13 years after the Wright Brothers first powered flight

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

And just about a century to the F35.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@Doo_Doo_Patrol solid point!

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@leebagdon6922 I guess the buildup to war really did bring in quick technological developments.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

I like the music.

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@Doo_Doo_Patrol I appreciate you saying so, ha. Thank you sir.

[@outandaboutwithsamiam5034]

How do you spot Stolen Valor? The " ad-hocly dressed veteran" is bragging about the war....
My grandpa never ever talked about WW2. I didn't know he had been awarded the Navy Cross or that he had survived the Indianapolis sinking until the day we buried him. His shipmates told me, at the time I was a Corporal PMI at Parris Island. And I dont talk about my 3 tours in 3 different wars either....sometimes i cant even watch footage of it either.
But i appreciate your efforts to get our stories out Dr Carter. 👏

[@CarterOnConflict]

@@outandaboutwithsamiam5034 I appreciate your commentary, and your honesty. God Bless you for your service. I’ll keep bringing stories out as long as decent, truly good Americans (and non Americans watch them.