Aviation and Navy during the First World War (1914-1917)

Preparing a French airplane for flight.

The airplane begins taxiing.

An airplane being inspected by the Austrian military attaché in France before the war.

Three German pilots talking.

The airplane's takeoff and takeoff.

The airplanes fly over the airfield.

Presentation of an award to the French pilot Georges Guynemer.

French military personnel inspect new airplanes.

The face of an American pilot.

The funeral of one of the American pilots who died on July 14, 1918. An inscription on a grave cross.

The airplane finishes its run after landing; pilots and airfield service soldiers run to the airplane.

The pilot, sitting in the cockpit, talks about the completion of a combat mission.

Observation balloons and artillery fire adjustment balloons taking off.

An airplane attacking a balloon.

An air gunner firing.

An anti-aircraft gun crew preparing to open fire.

The balloon crew at work (above).

Machine gun crew fires at air target.

Air defense weapons firing.

Crashing airplane at airfield.

Pilots and mechanics inspect damaged airplane.

Airplane flies by.

Burning balloon falls, fire instantly engulfs the shell.

French airplane begins takeoff.

Bomber makes turn, approaching target.

Automatic clamps under wing release bomb.

Explosion on target (top).

French airplanes take off one by one, airplane takes off.

Burning balloon falls.

French fighter in flight, German soldiers look at sky.

Balloon attack.

Balloon shell catches fire.

Observer leaves gondola by parachute.

One of German Zeppelin airships takes off.

Panorama of city blocks (top).

Airship in flight.

German sailors watch airship in flight.

Searchlight crews engaged in combat night work to repel an air raid.

Firing at enemy aircraft caught in the searchlight beams.

A burning balloon falling.

German generals conversing.

View of part of the side of a passenger ship.

A German submarine on the surface during a combat mission.

Preparing a deck gun for firing.

Raising the flag signal.

The deck gun firing, explosions near the side of the ship, hits on the side.

Raising the flag signal on the submarine's conning tower.

A sinking ship.

Faces of German submariners.

List of ships with crossed-out names, crossing out the name of the next sunken ship.

Capture of sailors and passengers who moored to the submarine in a lifeboat.

View of the bow of a submarine during a combat mission (from above).

A watchman on deck.

Officers on top of the conning tower.

Transport and passenger ships at sea.

Firing from a submarine deck gun.

The vessel is submerged.

The surviving crew members are in a boat.

A cargo ship is under fire, the crew of a German submarine's deck gun is firing.

The submarine commander and navigator are on the bridge.

The inspection party from the submarine is heading in a boat to the sailing vessel.

The submarine commander with binoculars on the bridge.

The sailing vessel is submerged, lies on its side, and goes under water.

View of a part of the submarine's wheelhouse and deck before submersion.

The submarine commander observes through the periscope, the submarine is submerged.

Loading a torpedo into the torpedo tube.

The commander at the periscope gives the command to launch.

Actions of the sailors in the torpedo compartment.

Launching a torpedo.

The torpedo hits the vessel, explosion on the vessel.

The torpedoed vessel goes under water.

A German cargo ship at anchor.

The flag of the German fleet on the mast.

Shipbuilders on the deck of a vessel.

Submarine submerging.

Preparing a deck gun on a British decoy vessel to fire at a submarine.

Firing at a submarine.

Closing the gun hatches.

Submarine on the surface.

Opening the hatches concealing the deck gun on the decoy vessel.

The crew of the sunken vessel boarding the submarine.

Sinking ships damaged by submarine attacks.

The submarine's commander with binoculars on the bridge.

The shelling and torpedoing of a transport ship astern of a submarine.

Ships sinking.

Headlines of articles about submarine warfare in American newspapers.