Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. WAR AND PEACE

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Documentary Films. 1914 - 1944. WAR AND PEACE

1927

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On peacetime activities of the War Department. Reel 1 shows artillery and infantry activities and prisoners moving to the rear during the Meuse-Argone Offensive in 1918. Sec. of War Davis makes a speech. West Point cadets pass in review and hold cavalry, artillery, and engineering exercises. Shows the 1926 Army-Navy football game. Recruits arrive at a Citizens' Military Training Camp in Plattsburg, N.Y. Reel 2, CMTC trainees do calisthenics, swim, attend chapel, and pads in review before Pres. Coolidge. Shows field artillery maneuvers at Ft. Sill, Okla. Troops fire on a rifle range, hold maneuvers, and engage in sports at Ft. Benning, Ga. Coast artillery guns fire at Ft. Monroe, Va.; cavalry charges at Ft. Riley, Kans.; Engrs. work on Davis Island Dam on the Ohio River, and Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoal, Ala. Shells are machined and a gun base is shaped at an ordnance plant. Shows activities at a Signal Corps radio research laboratory. Reel 3, the Alaskan cable is laid by the Signal Corps from the transport Dellwood. Shows Signal Corps stations in Fairbanks and views of the U. S.-Alaskan Railway. The boll weevil is examined at a Chemical Warfare laboratory in Griffin, Ga. Army planes spray cotton fields. Ships are fumigated in Baltimore harbor. Clothing and shoes are manufactured in a Q. M. plant. equipment is loaded on the transport Grant. Shows Maj. Walter Reed; Col. Gorgas; the abandoned Fr. canal in Panama; and construction work on the Panama Canal. Reel 4 describes the benefits to farmers of the Inland Waterways Corporation system: grain is harvested, transferred to IWC barges, and unloaded at sea-board terminals. Orville Wright demonstrates an airplane at Ft. Myer, Va., in 1908. Shows parachute and airplane-crash tests at McCook Field, Dayton, Ohio. Coolidge presents the D.F.C. to Charles Lindbergh. Shows the Spirit of St. Louis. Secs. Davis and Hoover, and Gen. Jadwin inspect Mississippi flood conditions in 1927.Refugees are fed and housed at Army tent camps.

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