U.S. soldiers climb through a hole blown through the brick wall of a bar-locked room at Merkers Mines in Germany near end of World War II. Bags of Nazi German gold, bank notes, and treasured paintings and stolen art work found inside the mine.
U.S. 18th Field Artillery units position 155's (artillery guns) near Viffort in France during World War I. Artillery supplies arrive at Courboin. Terrain near Conde-en-Brie. 111th Infantry troops man trenches at Viffort. The 150th Field Artillery bombards Suippes.-Thierry.
Wreckage of a crashed German plane at a field in France during World War I. Soldiers and people gather at the crash site. The captured German pilot surrounded.
American 167th and 168th Infantry units rest near Souain during World War I. Shows rubble and captured artillery. Prisoners are being questioned.
Machine gun nest of a French infantry unit at a cave in France during World War 1. Soldiers scan the surroundings from their concealed positions, and prepare to fire a Vickers machine gun on a wheeled mount..
Men, women, and children gathered at a hops farm in World War 1. The happy workers, possibly from Kent, or migrant "hoppers" from London on a "hopping holiday" work together to harvest hops. The row is filled with busy hoppers of all ages. Bin men with long poles pluck hop-laden vines from the high-growing plants. Children and women separate hop cone flowers from plants, gathered over bushel baskets. A woman pulls a hand cart between rows of hop plants.
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