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The USS George Washington carrying President Wilson to Brest, France, at end of World War I

President and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, on the deck of the USS George Washington, nearing France, en route to the Paris Peace Conference, at the end of World War 1. The President looks through binoculars, briefly. A U.S. battleshipis seen steaming ahead to port. The President motions with his hand towards another battleship,while speaking to Mrs. Wilson. (U.S. battleships and destroyers deployed in European waters joined the Presidential convoy as it approached Brest, France.) The camera pans across U.S. warships in the convoy. A dirigible is seen several hundred feet above the convoy. Closeup of the battleship, USS Oklahoma (BB-37). Camera shows French coast and flotilla moving toward Brest. President Wilson, dressed in overcoat and top hat, is seen on deck of the USS George Washington. He stands with Naval officers looking at the flotilla of U.S. warships.

Date: 1918, December 13
Duration: 4 min 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039610
A convoy of United States ships enter the harbor at Brest, France during World War I.

United States ships en route to France during World War 1. A convoy of United States ships underway at sea. A barrage balloon aloft. Stokers climb on deck blackened from bunkers fuel. Transport ships enter harbor at Brest France, escorted by United States Navy destroyers Burrows, Little, Jarvis, Bell, Winslow and Wainwright Sailors aboard the ships. Several sick and injured sailors being transferred to a boat from a destroyer in the background. A landing craft approaches a destroyer. Tug boat pulls an American transport vessel.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049591
U.S. transport ships and escort vessels in the harbor of Brest, France, after crossing the Atlantic.

United States Ships in France during World War I. United states Navy destroyers Burrows (Number 29), Little, Jarvis, Bell, Winslow and Wainwright in the harbor at Brest, France. Transport ships and assorted other craft in the harbor.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675049592
Bombs falling on the City of Brest, France

Views of smoke rising from succession of bomb explosions on the City of Brest, France. (World War II period).

Date: 1944, August 26
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034895
French Marine minister Cesar Campinchi and wife launch the battleship Richelieu in Brest, France

French battleship Richelieu launched in Brest, France. French Marine minister Cesar Campinchi arrives with other officials for the inauguration of the French battleship Richelieu. Sailors on deck of the ship. Sailors stand in formation on deck. Madame Mons, the wife of one of the workers in the arsenal who took part in the construction of the boat, cuts the ribbon and launches the battle ship. Officials look as the battleship leaves the dock. Sailors on rail of the ship. Cesar Campinchi takes a protective mask while welding. Other officials stand around him.

Date: 1939, January 30
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675068178
African American troops of the U.S. 501st Army Engineers, build port facilities at Brest, France, during World War I

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.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 41 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072989