U.S. Army 106th Engineers in the Port de Commerce (commercial harbour) of Brest, France during World War 1. This site is adjacent to L'arsenal de Brest (Arsenal of Brest) military and naval installations on the river Penfeld. U.S. Army 106th Engineers are constructing a warehouse in the area of Basin 5. View of Engineers raising a completed section of trusswork for the warehouse, by means of cables. Engineer using power drill on sections of new trusswork being assembled on the ground. German prisoners of war using two-man saw and hammers as they cut and install wooden joists in the construction. The working prisoners are monitored by U.S Army officer. German prisoners excavating at entrance of the building. Wider view of construction site, showing rail cars nearby and construction material everywhere. A barge plying waters of River Penfeld in background, and a variety of vessels tied up in the harbor. A bridge in the backgound. Engineers tending a large steam-driven machine sheltered in a shed.
U.S. Army 501st and 529th Engineers in Brest, France during World War 1. First segment: Excavation for a reservoir underway. The name of the reservoir is Kerguillo (sometimes written Kerguillau). It is located in the commune of BOHARS, near Brest. Houses beside the excavation site. Second segment: In downtown Brest, African American soldiers of African American U.S. Army 501st Engineers dig with pick axes on the Rampe du port de commerce (road access to the commercial harbour). A staircase in the background that provides walking access to the commercial harbour. People standing above them on the Cours Dajot and watching. Third segment: A few men of U.S. Army 529th Engineers doing electrical work in a street. One of them at the top of a ladder leaning against a pole in front of a building. Another soldier supporting the base of the ladder.
U.S. soldiers and officers in Brest, France during World War I. A church. Two nurses walking with a wounded, recuperating soldier in crutches on a path in front of a hospital. Bushes lining the path. Patients and the nurses sitting in a garden. A statue of Mother Mary behind them. A few army officers beside the nurses. The officers and the nurses among the trees in the garden. A nurse walking with the soldier in the crutches. A few nurses and officers outside a building. A nurse and a soldier seated at a table. Other nurses and officers standing around them. Several nurses sitting under trees in a lawn outside a building. Officers walking on the path behind the trees.
U.S. soldiers in Brest, France during World War 1. Soldiers and other men walk through Porte Foy, across a road. The soldiers standing and talking. A group of civilian men and a soldier standing on on the Cours Dajot.,beside an iron fence protecting the La Marne statue by Antoine Coysevox. One of the men smokes a cigarette. The soldier and the men smile.
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.)
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