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Title: Headed Overseas
Date: 1953-12-22
Description: Headed overseas before Christmas, Pvt. George A. Posey wistfully spent his last few minutes in St. Louis yesterday at Union Station with his girl friend, Miss Margaret Scheer, 226 Fannie ave., Luxemburg, as the Southwest Hight School Choir strolled through the station singing Christmas carols. Posey, who had been stationed at the Army Medical Depot here, was off for Seattle and duty overseas.

Title: Soldiers at Union Station
Date: 1944-12-24
Description: Soldiers gathered at Union Station before the booth maintained by the Military Reservation Bureau, a branch of the Army Transportation Corps to handle ticket matters for all servicemen on official business.

Title: Soldiers Departing, 1942
Date: 1942
Description: Families and residents of St. Louis gather on the levee to send off soldiers departing for World War II, circa 1942. Donated to the St. Louis Mercantile Library by Norbert Rechtien.

Title: Soldiers at Union Station
Date: 1955-12-24
Description: Servicemen make up most of the advance guard of the Christmas holiday travel rush pouring through Union Station yesterday. This picture was taken on the Concourse in front of the arrivals and departure board.

Title: In Between Train Stops
Date: 1943-10-17
Description: Soldiers sit on the veranda at Union Station, watching the fountain across the street and cars pass by.

Title: Americans Landing in France
Date: 1917, 1964-08-12
Description: "The Yanks Came/Eighty-one days after the United States declared war on Germany, the first regiments of the American Expeditionary Force landed in France, June 26, 1917. Here Yanks from the first convoy line up after debarking at St. Nazaire. The 14 vessels of the convoy carried about 14,500 troops. By the end of World War I Nov. 11, 1918, the Americans had 1.4 million men in France and had

Title: American Troops Preparing to Go Home
Date: 1923-02-03
Description: Two photos showing two different moments before American Troops leave Germany. "Above - Major General Henry T. Allen, commanding the last of the American troops in Germany, inspects his men before they embark on the transport St. Mihiel for home. General Allen is directly in the center. Below - American soldiers entrain at Coblenz, bid their German wives farewell, if only for a short time. The women went to the port of embarkation on a separate train."

Title: American Troops Leaving the Rhine
Date: 1923-02-03
Description: "The American troops marching through Coblenz to entrain for the embarkation port, where they boarded the transport St. Mihiel, the streets were lined with a guard of French troops, who took over control of the city after the departure of the Americans. There were many tear dimmed eyes among the hundreds of Natives who lined the streets to wave farewell to the American boys with whom they had become fast friends."

Title: American Troops Leaving Coblenz
Date: 1923-02-02
Description: "First Photos of American Troops Leaving Coblenz for Home./French civil and military authorities at Coblenz tribute to the American troops leaving the city for the U.S. photo shows the last of the American troops passing through the square for final review."

Title: American Soldiers Training
Date: unknown
Description: "U.S. Regulars training for service in France. Our soldiers enter into the war games with all the enthusiasm attendant with real warfare. Photo shows them picking off the enemy from the protection of a hastily constructed trench; somewhere in the U.S."

Title: German Armistice of 1940
Date: 1940-06-21, 1940-07-20
Description: "This picture shows history repeating itself in reverse. It depicts German leaders laying down armistice terms to French officials in the rail car June 21 at Compiegne, France, where Marshal Foch dictated the armistice of 1918 to Germany./Shown around the table (left to right) are: Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, Field Marshal Hermann Goering, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel (standing

Title: Gas Mask Drill
Date: 1918-05-25
Description: "These Marines in France are learning to adjust their gas masks quickly. It takes only a few seconds to get the mask in place. When the siren blows every mask is put on as speedily as possible as a second of delay might be serious. The Germans are reported to be perfuming their gas so as to deceive the Americans in the trenches but few of them have been gassed as yet."

Title: George Fatzer of the Army Band
Date: unknown
Description: "George Fatzer is considered the best cornet player in the army. He is called the "Toothless Wonder," and is shown with his "pets," future army virtuosos." Fatzer is the man facing the other musicians in the photograph with a cornet in his hands.

Title: German Infantrymen and Weaponry
Date: 1964-07-29
Description: "Ready for the Russian Rush/The Germans had better arms and better transportation than the Russians in World War I. Their machine guns devastated the masses of Russians rushing at them in attack. By the end of the first winter one Russian in four went into the field without a gun. Here German infantrymen aim their machine guns at the Russians from a trench at the Vistula River in Russia, in 1916."

Title: French Citizens Greeting American Soldiers
Date: 1944-08-06
Description: "Two venerable citizens of La Belle France have warm greetings for a couple of American doughboys who have just moved into their town."

Title: General Funston's Army
Date: 1914
Description: "General Funston's army passing through the streets of Galveston, Texas on their way to the transports which were to take them to Veracruz."

Title: Russian Troops in Poland
Date: 1964-06-30
Description: "Moving Toward Revolution/Russia, one of the first countries into World War I, was one of four empires destroyed at its end. Defeated by the Germans, Russia erupted in revolution in the fall of 1918. After Lenin took over, Russia surrendered. A new world power had come into being. Here, during the war, Russian troops move through a snowy street in a town in Poland. Exact location and date of

Title: Russian Expedionary Forces
Date: 1919-01-31
Description: "Yanks of the Russian Expedionary [SIC] Forces./Major General V. Ironsides (British Army) Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expedionary Forces in Northern Russia is above shown inspecting a detachment of United States Regulars under his command. This remarkable photograph, one of the first to be published, where the troops were enjoying a 10-day rest period, after intense campaigning along the

Title: Ring Fortress of Przemysl
Date: unknown, 1934-02-01
Description: The Fort of Przemysl shown in this photograph is partially destroyed, and there are soldiers in the trenches leading up to the fort.

Title: Red Cross Assisting with Casualties
Date: unknown, 1934-02-22
Description: Photograph of a partially destroyed house, Red Cross members, and blanket-covered casualties lined up in front of the building. There are a cluster of people at the edge of the building, and a Red Cross member walking through the deceased peoples.

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