"Spring 1919 - and marching up Fifth Avenue is the First Battalion of the 308th Infantry, the famous "Lost Battalion" of the 77th Division's Argonne campaign. They have just passed under the arch of Victory, a decorative feature for the celebrations. Many such parades marked the return from France of divisions of the American Expeditionary Force."
This photo depicts a camp of soldiers and tents. There are two groups of soldiers eating on the ground talking to one another. Tents stretch the length of the photo, and in the background are forest-covered hills.
"A Few of the 37 Million/The world counted 37 million casualties, with nine million dead, when World War I ended in November, 1918, after 4 1/2 bloody years. Sparked by an assassination in the Balkans, it soon involved almost all the armies of Europe, and by spring, 1917, also the United States. Here, with the smoke of battle in the background, wounded are loaded into Red Cross ambulances on the
bullet, the case, the powder and the primer, but their mass manufacture in astronomical quantities requires the same highly exacting standard employed in the making of a fine watch. This photo shows a unique inspection machine at the Local Ordnance Plant--one of more than 20 such plants throughout the United States. Just as a dentist puts a mirror in a patient's mouth to examine it, so does this case