Landung auf Ösel 1917 (1939)

Production company
Reichsanstalt für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (RWU) (Berlin)
Source
Bundesarchiv

Landing on Ösel 1917

Troop transports in the port of Libau; loading of the vehicles, guns and horses; landing troops boarding at the naval port office; departure of the transports accompanied by warships; airship flies over the convoy; sailing on the Baltic Sea; shelling of the Russian coastal batteries on Ösel with on-board artillery; disembarkation of the landing troops; landing craft being towed to the island; unloading of the horses, which are brought to the shore in ferries; field camp on the shore of the island. The educational film was compiled from original footage from 1917.  

Source: Bundesarchiv