Allied military operation in Brest France during World War 2. Capture of Brest, France: Animated map shows Allied troops entering into Brest. Aerial view of harbor in Brest. U.S. Army soldiers place and adjust heavy artillery. Artillery and P-47 aircraft bombard Brest. Smoke rises due to bombarding and firing. View of railroad yards partially destroyed by German sabotage, and partially from allied bombing. U.S. Army M18 Hellcat tank destroyer in action, firing in streets of city.
United States Ships en route to France during World War 1. Allied seaplanes in flight as they escort a convoy of United States ships. Ships underway as they approach Brest, France. Aircraft in flight. A lighthouse on an island. Seaplanes land on water and taxi along.
Army Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) use a rail-mounted conveyer-type bucket dredge to deepen a channel for Allied ships on the Penfeld River at Brest, France, during World War 1. In the background, the Kerguillo mansion in the suburb Bohars, can be seen. The dreged spoils are being emptied into a string of open rail cars. Men work around the base of the dredge, loosening soil with long poles. Army engineers, including African American soldiers of the U.S. Army 501st Engineers work with French civilians to build wharfs on the Penfeld River. They stand with a rail car of concrete at the job site, and manually remove it when emptied. Construction supplies are piled up at the port, where 501st Engineer members are seen with other U.S. soldiers and French soldiers. View from rail car (not seen) moving along track, away from the port. A locomotive is seen with "USA" painted on its side,next to a newly constructed rail platform. A French workman carrying a large can walks next to the tracks. A railroad crane stands on a siding. Workmen build a station on the platform. (One raises his arms out wide for the camera.) An open rail car sits by the platform. A soldier from the 501st crosses the track near a rail car filled with wooden ties. View of U.S. troops running from work on a train of rail cars, as they respond to noon mess call. African American soldiers of the 501st Engineers getting lunch and eating at an outdoor mess. Four of them tap dance for the camera, as their comrades watch and clap.
U.S. soldiers and officers in Brest, France during World War I. A church. Two nurses walking with a wounded, recuperating soldier in crutches on a path in front of a hospital. Bushes lining the path. Patients and the nurses sitting in a garden. A statue of Mother Mary behind them. A few army officers beside the nurses. The officers and the nurses among the trees in the garden. A nurse walking with the soldier in the crutches. A few nurses and officers outside a building. A nurse and a soldier seated at a table. Other nurses and officers standing around them. Several nurses sitting under trees in a lawn outside a building. Officers walking on the path behind the trees.
U.S. soldiers in Brest, France during World War 1. Soldiers and other men walk through Porte Foy, across a road. The soldiers standing and talking. A group of civilian men and a soldier standing on on the Cours Dajot.,beside an iron fence protecting the La Marne statue by Antoine Coysevox. One of the men smokes a cigarette. The soldier and the men smile.
United States military soldiers in Brest, France during World War I. U.S. soldiers seated on a sidewalk in front of a building. A woman brings a French orphan boy. The boy smiles and salutes standing beside the soldiers. Another boy dressed in soldier's clothes smiles standing beside the woman. The woman lifts the clothing from the boy's back to show scars. A few American officers posing on a path. A few of them seated and a few of them standing. French officers stand holding hands to make an archway for children to pass through. Young orphaned French boys and girls move in columns under the officers' hands. United States Army and Navy men standing on the side watch the children. A girl holding a kitten. A large group of U.S. soldiers seated holding adopted orphan children. United States troops holding girls seated on a lawn. One of the girls has a doll.
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