French crowd inspects captured German equipment. World War I German tanks, cannons, field guns, railroad guns, and gun carriages displayed at the Place de la Concorde (75008 Paris, France) and in Hotel des Invalides (129 Rue de Grenelle, 75007 Paris, France). View of Place de la Concorde in Paris. Automobiles and other vehicles circle the plaza. Many pedestrians are seen. An American soldier inspects a damaged German artillery piece on display. Visitors flood the display area to view the various weapons on display. At a park, the curb is lined with undamaged field pieces. Crowd gathers around a young boy manipulating controls on a captured German s FH 02 field howitzer
Activities of United States 94th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. Officers of the 94th Aero Squadron lined up on a field in France, for an award ceremony. Chief of U.S. Air Service, Major General Mason Patrick, accompanied by Brigadier General William Mitchell (Billy Mitchell), presents Distinguished Service Crosses to aviators of the U.S. 94th Aero Squadron, including Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who receives the DSC with 4 oak leaf clusters. Recipients pose with their Distinguished Service Crosses. Captains Rickenbacker and Jimmy Meissner pose together. SPAD aircraft and a hangar in the background. Rickenbacker poses next to his SPAD XIII that displays German bullet holes patched with Iron cross markings on its tail.
United States Ships en route to France during World War I. United States Survivors from the torpedoed USS President Lincoln boarding the U.S. Army Transport Great Northern, at Brest, France. U.S. Naval Officers wearing life jackets chat aboard the ship. A man looks through a pair of binoculars. Men with binoculars hung around their necks talk to each other.
View of crosses on the graves and Star of David on one plot in St Laurent Cemetery at St Laurent Sur Mere, France. Men walk amidst the cemetery. A flag in the cemetery.
Interrogation tests of captured German prisoners (German POW) aided by fellow prisoners in Saint Honorine Des Pertes, France. U.S. Army soldiers sit on a chair and ask questions of the queue of German prisoners. A soldier writes down the information on a paper. (World War II period).
673 convicts leave for Devil's Island in Saint Martin De-Re, France. The convicts get aboard ship La Martiniere for their voyage to the Devil's Island. The group includes sixty murderers. Prisoners under the guns of guards are herded aboard the craft as families bid their last farewell. The ship La Martiniere departs from a harbor.
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