Events during World War I. A wooden fort with a lookout post in countryside. Horse-drawn carriage in front of the fort, and two women wait outside. A sentry box at fort entrance. Guard on lookout post, above. Soldiers in uniform and local recruits entering the fort compound. Recruits pose for pictures. French officers pose with several local men bearing packs on their shoulders. Two officers, stand in a field, surrounded by troops, sitting on the ground, with their individual rifles pointed skyward.
Events during World War I. View into distance along newly laid railroad track, on round log ties, across plains of Russia. Railroad car containing construction materials. Construction workers maneuver wheel barrows of construction materials along a wooden path. Russian officers pose on platform, looking out over the newly laid tracks. A French officer is also seen on the platform.
German campaign in the Soviet Union during World War II. Dead bodies of Russian soldiers and demolished vehicles. Horse drawn carriages and troops advance. German officers congratulate their troops.
German troops awarded medals in Paris, during World War 2. Arc de Triomphe (Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 75008 Paris, France) in Place de L'Etoile, Paris. German soldiers salute Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Crowd lined up. German troops receiving medals. Troops giving salute after receiving medals. View of Avenue Champs-Élysées. Troops parade along Avenue. Arc de Triomphe in the background. Troops pass in review before reviewing German officer, Lieutenant General Kurt von Briesen. Briesen on horseback. Band plays. Horse drawn artillery pieces on Avenue Foch. Bugle corps on horses.
British Royal Air Force ground crews rearm a Spitfire aircraft during the Battle of Britain in World War 2. They feed belts into guns through access panels under wings and then place ammunition boxes into the wings. View Pilot's parachute sitting on empennage of a parked Spitfire aircraft. A partial glimpse of 66th Squadron's "LZ" code appears forward of the RAF roundel on its fuselage. Some white spots on leading edge of vertical stabilizer might be evidence of repair. But overall, the empennage does not appear damaged. Two other Squadron spitfires come in to land.
San Severo Airfield in Italy, during World War 2. Map showing location of San Severo. U.S. personnel around parked B-24 Liberator aircraft. White outdoor tent canopies in front of White buildings (far in background). View from passenger automobile driving rapidly along nearly empty road lined with trees. View shifts to a village street as seen from overlooking building. Two horse carts move along the street and several pedestrians walk on sidewalk. Park surrounded by official-looking buildings. Man and woman ride, standing, in a horse-drawn cart. A busy outdoor marketplace, where several children pose for the camera. Numerous local people on side streets. Several boys pose closeup for the camera. View from open area, of street lined with apartment houses. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse carts on the street, but no motor vehicles moving (one parked off the street). Words on door of building read '4th PHOTO. TECH. SQ,' (4th Photographic Technical Squadron). U.S. Army jeeps parked outside. Sign reads '90th P.W.R. Dispensary,' (identifying dispensary of the 90th Photographic Wing, Reconnaissance). Closeup of sign reading: "90th P.W.R. Dispensary, Sick Call 0830, American Military Personnel ---ONLY. Major Tom S. Shields, Wing Surgeon." Military ambulances parked outside the building. Another sign identifies a mess hall.
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