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WWI / WWII Video Footage (Documentaries)

These video documentaries come from a variety of sources. We thank everyone who has contributed to this collection.

  • Tape #1 - 80th Division WWI Archival Footage
    Thanks to COL(ret) Grant Porter and MAJ Hokes for putting these amazing footages together with commentary.
    • Somme Offensive
    • Training in Flanders
    • MGCronkite @ Ft. Monroe
    • President Wilson reviews 80th
    • CM Warfare/WWII
    • Patrol clearing in France
    • 318th in Falquemont
    • Taking Prisoners in Mulhouse

  • Never to be Forgotten: Soldiers of the Meuse-Argonne
    American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC)
    Shown in the visitor center at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, this film, through historic and modern-day imagery, and recollections from letters, gives a clearer perspective of the true cost of war. The film touches on the intense fighting of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. It discusses how family members had to select repatriation to the United States for burial, or permanent interment in an American, overseas cemetery. It covers the Gold Start Mother Pilgrimages that gave women the opportunity to visit their son or husband's burial location overseas. The film also includes details about how African American women were treated during these pilgrimages.

  • Training in Flanders - January 30 - August 9, 1918; 80th Division
    10 min video
    • Scene 1: Bozingham, France, June 23, 1918. Members of the 2d Bn, 317th Inf, drawing rations from the British.

    • Scene 2: Cooks of the 317th Inf preparing supper.

    • Scene 3: A Sunday washing squad at work.

    • Scene 4: Soldiers at rest in their camp. Note how they jump up and salute as their officers pass.

    • Scene 5: Two members of Company E, 317th Infantry.

    • Scene 6: Members of Headquarters Company, 317th Infantry, shaving outside their billets.

    • Scene 7: Boudeauville, France, June 23, 1918 - The barn in which some of the 317th Infantry are billeted.

    • Scene 8: Billets of Headquarters Company, 317th Infantry, 80th Division.

    • Scene 9: Soldiers on the banks of a small spring.

    • Scene 10: Beauval, France, July 17, 1918 - The town of Beauval as seen from the Route Nationale. Divisional Headquarters is in the building immediately in front of the church.

    • Scene 11: Beauval, France, July 17, 1918 - an aerial torpedo and three bombs that fell at 2:30 a.m. destroyed these three houses and killed four of the occupants.

    • Scene 12: The 305th Engineers engaged in salvage work, cleaning up the debris of the ruined buildings.

    • Scene 13: Members of the 305th Engineers removing two bodies.

    • Scene 14: Captain Robert R. Luce of the 305th Engineers Dental Reserve Corps who was in the building next to one of those struck by the bombs, his room was demolished but he was unhurt.

    • Scene 15: Beauval, France, July 21, 1918 - The picket line of the 305th Military Police Train and the fortifications erected under the direction of Captain Weems and Lt. Holmes as protection against bombs.

    • Scene 16: Sgt. H.R. Potter in charge of the portable lighting equipment. This outfit requires 4 men to operate it and it is equipped with a 20-HP gas engine driving a 3 KW generator. In one hour's time these men can wire and install ready for use 100 - 15 candle-power or 100 35 KW lamps of 110 volts each.

    • Scene 17: Lt. Col. W.H. Waldron, Chief of Staff, 80th Division and Major L.F. Koon, Asst. Div. Q.M.

    • Scene 18: Beauval, France, July 20, 1918 - Maj. Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, commanding 80th Division and Lt. Col. W.H. Waldron, Chief of Staff.

    • Scene 19: Banque Maison, France, July 20, 1918 - The Church where part of the 80th Division is billeted.

    • Scene 20: The 319th Infantry, awaiting inspection.

    • Scene 21: Lt. Col. W.H. Waldron, inspecting rifles of the 4th Platoon, Company K, 319th Infantry.

    • Scene 22: Maj. Gen. Cronkhite, Maj. Gen. Reed, and Brig. Gen Brett reviewing Company L, 319th Infantry, at bayonet exercises.

    • Scene 23: Men of Company H, 2d Platoon, 319th Infantry at machine gun practice.

    • Scene 24: The 319th Machine Gun Company changing positions at double time.

    • Scene 25: Company M, 318th Infantry, throwing hand grenades.

    • Scene 26: Men of Company A, 317th Infantry, practicing rifle grenade shooting.

    • Scene 27: The 320th Infantry in a gas mask drill.

    • Scene 28: Headquarters Company, 320th Infantry, erecting an observation post under the direction of Lt. Charles H. Cole.

    • Scene 29: Private 1st Class Taylor of Headquarters Company, 319th Infantry, divisional champion for dismounting and assembling a French 37mm gun, time, one minute 19 seconds.

    • Scene 30: Lt. Ferrites, 305th Field Signal Bn, Maj. Stephen M. Walmsley, Div. Signal Officer, and Col. H.B. Black, Chief Signal Officer 2d Army Corps, observing operation at a fild wireless station.

    • Scene 31: Beauval, France, July 2, 1918 - Maj Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, Maj. Gen. G.W. Read, commanding 2d Army Corps, and Brig. Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, commanding 160th Brigade, on a tour of inspection of troops of the 319th Infantry, and Lewis Machine Guns.

    • Scene 32: Banque Maison, France, July 20, 1918 - Maj. Gen. Cronkhite, Maj. Gen. Reed, and Brig. Gen. Brett at skirmish exercise of the 318th Infantry, 80th Division.

    • Scene 33: Lt. H.W. Saye, on the right, and Lt. Armsby on the left. Lt. Saye has received the Croix de Guerre four times. He won his first decoration on Oct. 23, 1917, for being the first American to kill a German. He did this while sniping with an old Springfield rifle at the time he was a Sergeant Major in Major Geho. Roosevelt's Bn. of the 26th Infantry. His second, third, and fourth decorations were earned respectively on April 23, 26, and 28th for participating in raids while attached to the 23rd Company, 298th French Infantry.

    • Scene 34: Maj. Gen. Cronkhite, Gen. Schute, command 5th British Army Corps, Maj. Gen. Read, and another British Officer discussing the division competition.

    • Scene 35: Sgt. O.F. Boyd directing 320th Infantry band.

  • WWI: Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26 - November 11, 1919; 80th Infantry Division YouTube video, 9 min. (Thanks to Sandy Martin)

  • Tape #2 - 80th Division WWI & WWII National Archives
    Thanks to COL(ret) Grant Porter and MAJ Hokes for putting these amazing footages together with commentary.
    • 318th Motor (WWII)
    • Meeting Russians (WWII)
    • Post Armistace Training (WWI)
    • Montsec (WWII)
    • Argentan
    • Pont a Mousson

  • France '44: The Wet Gap Crossings at Nancy
    Video by Staff Sgt Jarred Woods; Army University Press

    Over a week-long period in September 1944, Lieutenant General George S. Patton's Third Army attempted to cross an assault force at several points across the Moselle River to establish a bridgehead and then encircle three German Army divisions in the city of Nancy, France. With a plan that closely followed U.S. river crossing doctrine, Third Army's XII Corps executed a wet gap crossing south of the town of Nancy with the 35th Infantry Division as the bridgehead force and 4th Armored Division as the breakout force.

    As planned, the successful wet-gap crossing opened the southern route to Nancy and allowed the 80th Infantry Division to initiate a similar crossing north of the city. The establishment of multiple bridgeheads enabled Patton's Third Army to return to what had made it successful during its advance across France--mobility. At 52 minutes, this film is full of historical footage and photographs, digitally-enhanced maps, and current wet gap crossing doctrine.

  • France '44: The Encirclement at Nancy
    Video by Staff Sgt Jarred Woods; Army University Press

    This World War II documentary film focuses on XII Corps' crossing of the Moselle River as part of the Lorraine Campaign in September 1944. It includes lessons from current U.S. Army doctrine, specifically encirclement operations and tactics as well as passage of lines.

    At daylight on 13 September, Combat Command A of the 4th Armored Division passed through the 80th Infantry Division's bridgehead near Dieulouard initiating the encirclement at Nancy. The film begins with a discussion of the disposition of American and German forces in the Lorraine region of France in early September 1944.

    It also offers an in-depth analysis of the region's terrain and topography and how it limited the avenues of approach utilized by XII Corps during the campaign. The film then covers CCA's and CCB's actions on 13 and 14 September, the fight for Luneville, and the German Fifth Panzer Army's counterattack near Arracourt.

    At 48 minutes in length, this film is full of historical footage and photographs, virtual terrain, animated maps, and digitally-created doctrine graphics.

  • 80th Infantry Division WWII 75-year Anniversary
    Video by Master Sgt Benari Poulten; 80th Training Command (Reserve)
    This video highlights the 80th Infantry Division's heroic actions during World War II.

  • The 80th in WWII: Strength of the Mountains
    YouTube video, 11 min. This 80th Training Command (TASS) historical video celebrates the extraordinary accomplishments of the 80th Infantry Division in World War Two, using actual archival footage and photos from WWII. Narrated, edited, and produced by MSG Benari Poulten, 80th Training Division (TASS) Public Affairs Office.