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.
Fire in the The Wilson Square - Champ-de-Bataille Square municipal theatre (located in the Place Wilson) in Brest, France. The architect was Antoine Choquet de Lindu. People on the street outside the Theatre during the fire. French firemen and U.S. troops (immediately post World War 1) arrive in trucks to fight the theater fire. The fire fighters extend water hoses from the trucks and from manual pumps to the building. Men climb up ladders to the first floor of the building. Men standing on the balcony of the first floor holding the hoses. Broken windows of the ground floor in view. Men break windows on more doors. They position hoses and spray water from hoses through a window of the first floor. Firemen go up and down the ladder. A huge group of men outside the building operating a see-saw manual water pump. (The theater was completely destroyed and rebuilt in wood at the Place de la Liberté.)
A man with a puppy in Brest, France during World War I. The man with the puppy seated on a sidewalk. Buildings near the sidewalk. A civilian walking on the sidewalk offers food to the puppy. Women walking on the sidewalk. The man stands holding the puppy on a leash.
U.S. soldiers in Brest, France during World War I. A man and a woman act out a play on a raised platform. U.S. soldiers seated on the ground in front of the platform watch the play. Tents in background.
U.S. soldiers in Brest, France during World War I. A baseball game in progress. U.S. soldiers stand around and watch the game. Hill of Polygone de la Marine in the background. A soldier buys a drink from a woman who is selling drinks from a hand cart. The soldier drinks from the bottle. The woman and people standing behind the soldier watch him.
United States soldiers in Brest, France during World War I. A U.S. Army officer and a soldier go inside a wooden building. The soldier writes a Mother’s Day letter on a table. 'Mother's Day' written on a sheet of paper on the wall in front of the soldier.
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