Description: | I. Newsreel item on Lieutenant Frank Baylies, Western Front, June 1918.
II. Newsreel item on French forces near Rheims, Western Front, May or June 1918.
III. Newsreel item on Italian Alpini on Mount Grappa, Italian Front, spring 1918.
Baylies, shot down on 17th June (described as "reported missing") was an American flying with 3ième Escadrille. He is shown beside his Spad 13 talking with a French officer.
The men move along a trench. A Saint Etienne machine gun fires on a high angle from its trench in a wood.
The Alpini, on skies and in white camouflage uniform, move in line over the valleys covered with snow, tiny black figures in the white expanse.
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