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Title: Smoking Warships
Date: unknown, 1934-04-03
Description: Photograph from a ship on choppy water that is facing an open ocean with roughly ten smoking warships in the distance.

Title: Searchlights Trained on Planes
Date: 1925-02-07
Description: "U.S. Flyers Winners in Night Battle at Fortress Monroe./Airmen are claiming a decisive victory in the "Battle in the Air" arranged by Secretary of War Weeks at Fortress Monroe, Va. day and night of March 6th. Three Martin bombers dodged range finders, evaded searchlights and successfully attacked fortress Monroe. More than 500 persons witnessed the demonstration. In the night tests, the flyers won, the shafts of light groping vainly for the motors that the listening devices revealed./This photo shows searchlights at Fortress Monroe being trained on planes."

Title: Smoke-Filled Battlefield
Date: 1937-11-7
Description: Photograph of a battlefield filled with smoke as people run wildly around it. There are a group of people in the foreground, and a house in the middle-ground with smoke around it. There is a tree-line at the background of the photo.

Title: Soldier Transport Ship
Date: unknown
Description: "Transport Crook Arrives Safely./The disabled transport Crook, bearing 30 German war brides and nearly 1,000 officers and men of the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine has arrived safely in port. The ship sprung a leak while of the Newfoundland Banks and then ran into a severe storm but it crept into port distaining the aid that was sent as soon as advices of its predicament were received

Title: Soldier and Family
Date: unknown
Description: Photograph of a soldier carrying luggage next to a large ship. A woman carrying a baby is standing next to him, and behind the family is a group of people stood at the exit of the boat.

Title: Sailly-sur-la-Lys Soldatenfriedhof
Date: unknown, 1934-02-11
Description: Photograph of a German Military Cemetery in Sailly-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais, France. The cemetery was created for German casualties of the war during occupation in France, and spans as far as the photo will reach.

Title: Sinking Ship
Date: unknown, 1934-03-25
Description: This photograph shows a sinking ship as it tips to the left of the photo in a blur; there's a flag on the front of the ship, but it is not easily identified. The photo is taken from a distance in the water.

Title: Y.M.C.A. France
Date: 1937-11-11
Description: Photograph of a busy YMCA facility in France, being visited by the citizens of Saint-Louis, France during World War I.

Title: American Troops Leaving Antwerp
Date: 1923-02-03
Description: "First and Exclusive Photos of Last of American Troops Leaving Rhine!/This first and exclusive photo the first to arrive from abroad shows the U.S. Flag passing the French Flag and the Guard of Honor as last of American troops prepare to embark for States at Antwerp."

Title: Youth of France
Date: unknown, 1934-02-04
Description: In this photo is a large crowd of young men and a headline reading "Youths of France Rally to Her Call!/Mere youths, the French class of '17 enthusiastically departs from Paris to take its place on the fighting lines." Many of the men are smiling or holding up signs.

Title: American Troops Recalled
Date: unknown
Description: "American troops leave the Rhine. Uncle Sam's Troops parting on S.S. St. Mihiel after being recalled by President Harding./Photo shows American Troops from the American Army of the Rhine on board the U.S. Transport St. Mihiel at Antwerp before sailing for home."

Title: Red Cross Sight-Seeing Tour
Date: 1919-02-06
Description: "Red Cross Takes Convalescent U.S. Soldiers on London Sight-Seeing Tour./The American Red Cross is here shown taking convalescent soldiers, from London Hospitals along with prisoners, just back from Germany, and Yanks on leave from France on a sight-seeing tour of London. The Red Cross takes large numbers of men on such trips daily, showing them all the worth-while sights of London. The men are shown in omnibusses [SIC], ready to leave from the Red Cross Headquarters."

Title: Enlistment Ads
Date: unknown, 1934-02-01
Description: This photo shows five different ads for enlistment in the military to fight for the British Empire. The first in the upper left corner reads, "Another Call/"More men and still more until the enemy is crushed."/Lord Kitchener". Beneath this one, at the bottom left, it says, "There's room for YOU/ENLIST to-day". There is a poster in the middle where only "Enlist to-day" is visible. In the bottom right is "The Key to the Situation/Munitions, Men, and Money/Are YOU helping to turn it?" These words are organized in such a way where the three M's are on the teeth of the key. The last poster at the top right of the photo has two quotes from Lord Kitchener, and says, "Men of London/Now is the Time/Come forward now and be trained to do your share./Every fit man owes this duty to himself and to his country."

Title: Grand Army of the Republic Veterans
Date: 1936-06-01
Description: "G.A.R. Veterans Honor Comrades - Nine of the 23 G. A. R. veterans who marched in the Memorial Day parade on Riverside Drive shown at the Soldiers' and Sailors Monument in New York during exercises honor the nation's war dead. Left to right: George C. Eldridge, 92; George W. Collier, 94; Robert S. Heilferty, 88; Edward Fleming; Timothy J. Creeden, 96, the oldest veteran in line of march; Albert Morgan, 92; James O'Conner, 90; Christopher A. Farrell, 90, and Josiah C. Read, 90, grand marshal of the G. A. R."

Title: Coin and Soldier
Date: unknown, 1934-02-12
Description: This photo of a French War poster reads, "Pour la France Versez Votre Or/L'Or Combat Pour La Victoire". The image is a soldier holding a large rifle and bayonet, and above him is a comically large 1915 coin with a rooster leaning aggressively toward the soldier.

Title: Doughnuts for Doughboys
Date: 1918
Description: This photo shows an American soldier, or Doughboy, eating doughnuts outside of the Odeon Theater in Paris, France where the 1918 film "America's Answer" was playing.

Title: Marine and American Flag
Date: 1984-11-12
Description: "Participating in Veterans Day Parade down Fifth Avenue, 11/12, a Marine is wrapped up in an American flag. Hundreds of veterans from World War I through Grenada marched to honor fallen comrades."

Title: Soldiers Marching in a Field
Date: unknown
Description: Photograph of soldiers, all with their gear, helmets, and weapons, standing at attention and marching behind an officer in an officers' cap.

Title: Soldiers Disembarking a Ship
Date: unknown, 1934-03-05
Description: This photo shows soldiers disembarking a large ship in a single-file line; they have their rifles at there sides, and some have packs on their arms.

Title: Soldiers Passing a Church
Date: unknown, 1934-02-25
Description: This photo is of soldiers running through a field and a large church. The church spans most of the background in the photograph, and the wet ground shines as the soldiers run through the frame.

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