View of Ellis Loring Dresel, United States commissioner to Germany and chargé d'affaires for the United States in Germany, seen standing beside a building in Berlin. Men gather for the signing of the United States peace treaty with Germany in Berlin, almost three years after the World War I armistice was signed. Mr. Dresel and two other diplomats enter a 1920's car parked on the street, as a small crowd stands by. The Treaty document is shown for the camera, bearing the signature of Ellis Loring Dresel.
Soldiers walk along with prisoners of war at a field in France. Vehicles pass on the field. Soldiers move on tank. They rest in the field.
British 5th Army gunners begin an intense bombardment of the 3rd German line, with 8 inch howitzers. during the Battle of the Ancre, in World War 1.They fire from under camouflage netting. Lines of shells standing on end, surround the gun positions.
View of the buildings, houses, streets and trees in Manila, Philippines. Explosions in the city. Smoke arises from the explosions. Soldiers on military vehicles on the street. Jeeps parked in front of a building. Wreckage in the building. People gather to watch the wreckage. Smoke arises from fire in the background. Men raise the United States flag on the terrace of a building. Houses in a field. High altitude view of the wreckage in the city. Huts and shacks on the field. Liberated women cook food outside the huts after liberation from internment. Men and children sit and eat the food. Children play. Liberated internee men seated on chairs smoke and talk amongst themselves. Liberated civilian internees mingle with United States troops in the streets of the city. Girls come out of a building and walk on the street. They talk amongst themselves. Children view a tank and peer inside it from atop. A man and a woman talk. A soldier holds two children and talk to them. Starved and emaciated freed American prisoner from a camp stands with soldiers near a tank and smokes. (World War II period).
United States soldiers marches south from Tarlac to Manila. Map of Manila and surrounding areas under United States control. A sign reads “Notice Picking Flowers Absolutely Prohibited”. Soldiers crawl under a hole in a wall. A skirmish rages in Rizal Stadium (Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, Adriatico St, Malate, Maynila, 1004 Kalakhang Maynila), a baseball stadium in Malate, Manila. Soldiers walk on streets of Escolta, the business district of Manila. They cross a bridge on a waterway. They move on tanks in the field and pass a waterway. Animated map shows captured parts of Manila. Soldiers in the wrecked stadium. Soldiers fire in the stadium. Smoke arises due to firing. Soldiers walk on the street and engage Japanese in house to house and building to building combat. Buildings and houses along the sides of the street. Soldiers fire on the street. Wounded Japanese soldier looks up at U.S. Army soldiers near a street corner. Wounded American soldiers carried by fellow U.S. soldiers to safety and to receive first aid from medics. Dead soldiers on the street. Dead body of a soldier near barricades. (World War II period).
Ruins of the Nuestra Señora de Gracia Church or Guadalupe Church (7440 Bernardino Street, Guadalupe Viejo, Makati, Metro Manila) in San Pedro Makati, outside of Manila, Philippines. The church and monastery complex were ruined in the Filipino - American War at the turn of the century. A flag on the top of the building. Trees in the foreground.
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