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President Raymond Poincaré of France reviews Army Regiment from Czechoslovakia upon France's recognition of that nation on June 30, 1918.

Raymond Poincaré, President of France, strides in a field with Czechoslovak and Allied Armed forces officers, reviewing the 21st Regiment of Czechoslovak legionnaires, who are in formation, at attention, presenting arms. Official guests at the ceremony include Edvard Beneš and other officials of the Czechoslovak National Council. Views of a Czechoslovak soldier holding aloft a banner presented by President Poincaré that was designed by Czech painter František Kupka, as a gift from the city of Paris. The banner being held aloft as reviewing officers stand at attention. View from rear of the Regiment in formation. Several views of the Regiment parading on the field behind a color guard holding the new Regimental colors.

Date: 1918, June 30
Duration: 1 min 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028118
Scenes of World War 1 and the period between the wars, illuminating career of U.S. Air Force General Henry (Hap) Arnold.

Newspaper headline in Washington post reads 'United States and Germany at War'. Civilians recruited into the army. American pilots of the 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron, in France, with their Spad aircraft. American airplane production factories in operation, with manny women war production workers seen assembling aircraft. People celebrate in the streets at end of World War I at time of armistice. Airplanes, under command of General Billy Mitchell bomb obsolete warships in demonstration of aircraft power in warfare. 1920s: Postwar flyers and stunt wing walkers perform in the roaring twenties. Developments and improvements in parachutes, and view as stunt men parachute from high buildings and airplanes. Aircraft flying forest fire patrols. Aerial view of burning forest fire below. Lieutenant Colonel Arnold commands emergency airlift and drop of food to snowbound Native American Indians in American Southwest, in 1932. World War I scene of American 103rd Aero Pursuit Squadron Spad airplanes taking off, in France. Lieutenant Colonel Hap Arnold with his family, including two young boys and a young girl (his sons and daughter) and his wife.

Date: 1918
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675042990
British Lancasters bomb at Brest, Canadian troops advance, civilians buy goods and U.S. soldiers secure voting cards in France (WW2)

Normal life of civilians resume after German surrender in some parts of France during World War II. British Lancaster bomber aircraft demonstrates precision bombing in flight. View from bomb bay doors of bombs away shot as the Lancaster aircraft drop bombs on U-boat pens at Brest. Explosions and smoke rise. The aircraft drop bombs over ground installation over enemy area. Canadian troops: Troops advance through a burning coastal town in France. Buildings collapsing and gunfire in streets. Smoke rising. Ruins of destroyed French town are seen. Allied Army tanks advance and fire artillery. German prisoners of war from Wehrmacht 7th and 15th armies being marched under watch by Canadian forces. Among the German prisoners is a 13 year old Russian boy who was forced to work by the Nazis. German prisoners in a soup line and seen drinking from mugs. U.S. Army soldiers in Le Mans: Yanks get welcome by civilians of France. Happy French civilians waving to U.S. forces including a happy young woman who runs forward and pats a U.S. Army tank with her hand. Collaborationists who assisted the Germans are rounded up by French and marched away. U.S. Army soldiers seated at stools in a French bar drink as the bar maid pours more into their glasses. French civilians line up at shops and groceries to buy food and goods in Le Mans. Pictures of General De Gaulle for sale. American women in U.S. Army uniforms look in shop windows at French fashions. Voting cards: U.S. Army troops read pamphlets that read "requirement of soldiers to vote" and "Soldiers Voting". The U.S. Army GI's receive and mail postcards to their homes requesting absentee voting ballots for the upcoming November 1944 election. The soldiers line up to secure their application cards for absentee ballots.

Date: 1944, August 31
Duration: 2 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675071443
U.S. soldiers find a messenger dog and distribute food in France.

Saint-Mihiel, France. Exchange of battlefield humor. Mock street sign posted by German soldiers reads 'Hindenburg Str'. It has been crossed out and flanked by signs reading: 'Washington Street' and an arrow pointing to 'Subway' made by American troops. Heavily fortified German bunker constructed on hill side. United States soldiers with a German messenger dog. Soldier shows how message is carried in capsule on dog's collar. Soldiers stand nearby. Soldier shakes hand with French boy out side a home, children stand at stairs of home. Local French people are treated to a meal at U.S. Army field mess. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)

Date: 1918, September
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026359
Women Nurses and red cross take care of children at hospitals, schools and on outings in France during World War I.

French children in France during World War I. French children playing in an outdoor courtyard, supervised by a woman nurse or teacher. A teacher inside a French classroom instructs young children students. A student stands and answers the teacher's questions. A train pulls up at a station and passengers, many children aboard the train, look out from the windows. Elderly nurses or nuns along with children on an outdoor outing. One of the women comforts a girl who has hurt her hand. Boys play in the background. Red Cross workers help children enter a hospital building. Nurses take care of sick children in metal-sided cribs at the hospital. Older children play games with nurses outdoors on the hospital grounds.

Date: 1918
Duration: 2 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675042486
Armistice Day, 1918, at end of World War I. U.S. troops raise the American Flag on a radio tower in France

Armistice Day, 1918. United States troops raise the American flag on a tall radio tower erected atop a damaged church in France.The soldiers stand at attention and salute as the flag is raised at end of World War 1.

Date: 1918, November 11
Duration: 1 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675065322