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Engineers and workers celebrate "holing through" of tunnel through Mont Blanc connecting France and Italy

View of Mont Blanc in the Alps. A cable car in transit. French and Italian workers riding on an open narrow gauge railroad train carrying cases of champagne to celebrate the "holing through" of a 7 mile tunnel,through Mont Blanc from Chamonix, on the French side of the mountain, to Courmayeur in Italy. It is to facilitate road travel directly between the two countries. Workers fasten French and Italian flags,to the tunnel wall. Professor Loris Corbi, in charge of the Italian tunneling project is seen with his French counterpart, Professor Andre Borie, as they exchange congratulatory kisses. The French and Italian workers cheer and celebrate this remarkable engineering achievement.

Date: 1962, August 14
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675063219
President Woodrow Wilson aboard USS George Washington heading from Hoboken Port in New Jersey to France for peace negotiations.

American President Woodrow Wilson heads for the Paris Peace Conference, following the armistice in World War I. USS George Washington leaves Hoboken Port in New Jersey. A board reads "US Army Transport Service'. Small boats along USS George Washington. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1918, December 4
Duration: 2 min 7 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064443
Passengers board an ocean liner in New York City, bound for France.

Passengers embark an ocean liner at a pier in New York City. Friends and family wave from the pier as tug boats guide the ship away from the dock. View of the New York skyline as the ship heads out to sea. View of 4-stacker ocean liner at sea (the Cunard Line's SS Aquitania). Ship's officers seen in the wheelhouse. Passengers stroll the decks; play deck games (shuffleboard); rest on deck chairs; and have drinks at the bar. Scenes of fancy food displays and chefs at work. One chef pours wine into food being cooked, and then takes a swig from the bottle, himself.

Date: 1926
Duration: 1 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065228
U.S. 105th Field Artillery march up to the docks and on to USS America and Madawaska in Newport News, bound for France

U.S. 313th Labor Battalion troops, 105th Field Artillery and 2nd Battalion Pioneers embark from Newport News, Virginia for Europe in 1918 during World War I. The troops of U.S. 313th Labor Battalion at a pier. U.S. 105th Field Artillery and 2nd Battalion Pioneers march up to the docks and on to gangplanks by U.S. Navy transport ships USS America and USS Madawaska. The World War 1 American troops at dock. The covered artillery at the dock. The troops walk up the gangplank. A building and a ship at the dock.

Date: 1918, June 29
Duration: 1 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675069501
United States Army troops arrive in France ready for combat during World War I.

United States Army troops arrive and join with French forces during World War I. Open troop Trucks filled with American soldiers arriving in French town during World War 1. One of the soldiers clowns around, hanging off the truck. U.S. troops, armed with rifles, in a deep trench, watching one of their comrades firing his rifle over the top. Soldiers firing a Hotchkiss Model 1914 machine gun and a Vickers Mark I .303 water-cooled machine gun. French troops firing 320 mm railway guns. Artillery shells bursting on ground. Mortar Crew puts on gas masks and fires mortar. Artillerymen firing 155mm Howitzer M1917A4. Shells bursting on target in distance.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675072382
Cheering women welcome liberated French prisoners in Paris.

A large crowd including elderly women welcomes the liberated French prisoners to France. Truck of liberated French prisoners arrives amidst the waiting civilians. French girls wave to disembarking prisoners as the smiling prisoners wave back. Young girls hug and kiss the prisoners.Civilians cheer and applaud their return. Little girls wave in the crowd. Prisoners eat bread and drink from wine bottle. A prisoner holds the French flag. Liberated Senegalese prisoners. (World War II period).

Date: 1945, April
Duration: 7 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020416