French crowd inspects captured German equipment. World War I German tanks, cannons, field guns, railroad guns, and gun carriages displayed at the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France) and in Hotel des Invalides (129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France). View of Place de la Concorde in Paris. Automobiles and other vehicles circle the plaza. Many pedestrians are seen. An American soldier inspects a damaged German artillery piece on display. Visitors flood the display area to view the various weapons on display. At a park, the curb is lined with undamaged field pieces. Crowd gathers around a young boy manipulating controls on a captured German s FH 02 field howitzer
World War 1 Captured German equipment displayed in Hotel des Invalides. Crowds and traffic at Concorde square. German tanks, cannons, field guns, railroad guns, and gun carriages displayed in Hotel des Invalides.
A World War 1 captured German railroad gun in midst of crowd in Paris. Closeup views of captured German artillery shells and other German equipment can be seen in area near Hotel des Invalides. Eiffel Tower rising high in background with rail gun barrel pointed in its direction. Large crowd of people aboard a captured German submarine at dock. View of French sailors, some American Army officers, and citizens walking up dock to shore after inspecting the submarine.
Captured World War I German gun carriages displayed at a monument in Paris. Crowds inspect World War 1 field guns and other equipment displayed.
World War I U.S. ordnance personnel crate German ordnance material for shipment to the United States. Ordnance personnel bring the material and an ordnance man at typewriter. Ordnance personnel inspect the World War 1 material.
U.S. Army holt tractors are hooked up to large wheeled trailers loaded with parts of German 42cm "Big Bertha" howitzers, captured by American Expeditionary forces (AEF) near end of World War 1. Camera pans along the line of tractors. Closeup profile of a Holt tractor with several Army mechanics working around it. Camera pans along tractors and Big Bertha carriers and parts. Camera focuses into rifled barrel of one of the howitzers. Several U.S. soldiers are seen waving to the camera, through the barrel. Several American soldiers climb upon a carrier holding one of the 42cm barrels. One soldier crawls through the barrel. Two soldiers display a 42cm shell casing for the camera. Writing on one of the captured German vehicles reads: "Ersatzbremsflussigkeit (Perglyzerin)" describing substitute brake fluid. The convoy of tractors, led by a staff car and accompanied by soldiers on motorcycles, proceed along the road to Beaune, France. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)