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Title: Soldiers Being Served
Date: 1918-09-01
Description: This photo shows soldiers (both seated and standing) waiting to be served a cup of a drink which is being poured out from a silver pitcher. There are many soldiers watching and waiting.

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: French Emissaries Entering Car
Date: 1918, 1940-06-22
Description: "Compiegne Forest, France, June 21 - Four French emissaries are shown about to enter the 1918 armistice care here today, where they heard Hitler give his terms for peace. Entering the car is a German officer who acted as escort. Several feet behind him is Gen. Charles Huntzinger of France, and in the center of the photo, behind the post, is Leon Noel of France. Toward the right are Gen. Jean

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: French Necessities Voucher
Date: unknown, 1934-02-04
Description: The voucher in this photo for the French people indicates that it is good for a kilo of bread, 12 kilos of coal, 4 kilos of potatoes, or 1/4 kilo of margarine. It can also be used for other basic necessities.

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: Role in the Great War
Date: unknown, 1934-02-21
Description: This photo shows a small display on a brick wall acknowledging "Our Roll of Honour in the Great War". Around this small sign are flags and many pots of flowers. There are also some small signs recognizing military flight. There's a woman in a dress and long apron holding a small child who is pointing at the flowers, and another woman walks by with a woven bag.

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.

Title: Debris of War
Date: 1944-08-06
Description: "Unrecognizable heaps of rubble and empty skeletons of buildings greeted U.S. infantrymen who marched into Septsarges on the Meuse River after the town was wrested from the Germans in the First World War."

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