Citizens of Paris celebrate the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule in Paris, France. French and American flags atop a building. A biplane aircraft is seen flying near the Egyptian Obelisk in Place de la Concorde. Onlookers sit on a World War I era tank. A man waves an American flag and bugle with the Paris Arc de Triomphe in the background.
Citizens celebrate the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule by releasing hundreds of doves from cages in Paris, France. Thousands of citizens gather and celebrate on streets while others sit on a the wings of a airplane to watch.
Aerial view of throngs of citizens celebrating the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule in Paris, France. Thousands of citizens gather and celebrate on streets.
Citizens celebrate the return of Alsace-Lorraine to French rule in Paris, France. Thousands of citizens gather and celebrate on streets. People dismantle a captured German airplane.
Shows American 52nd and 53rd Coast Artillery Regiments uncovering and preparing a 14-inch railway gun for operation in Belleville, France, during the Meuse-Argonne offensive of World War 1. Several railroad guns are seen in the field. One is labeled USN (U.S. Navy) 110. A supervisor walks past it using a megaphone to issue an order to the gun crew. The crew uses block and tackle to move and load a heavy shell. Scene shifts to a soldier climbing out of a trench with a manual in his hand. Camera shifts to one of the rail guns being fired, emitting a huge black cloud of smoke. Two more railway gun firings are recorded. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Soldiers, of U.S. Army Coast Artillery Regiment, place camouflage coverings atop a 14-inch railroad gun, in France, during World War 1. View of the camouflaged gun as its barrel slowly rises and it fires. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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