Armistice Day celebration in Paris. French and American soldiers parade on streets of Paris celebrating end of World War 1. Men carry the United States flag and French flags. Group of parading Americans carry a young woman on their shoulders. Some women and children seen marching and dancing with the soldiers. A Parisian lamplighter begins descending his ladder, after lighting a streetlamp, but goes back up again to retrieve his wine bottle. Puffs of smoke waft over dense crowd, waving and shouting.
Brigadier General Benjamin D Foulois, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, seen together with a group of United States Army Air Service officers in France during World War I. They look at DH-4 aircraft. Group of Air Service officers pose for photographs. They play slapstick jokes on each other as they pose. Plane in the background. They talk and laugh during group photograph. A still photograph of a group of early United States Navy pilots.
Documentary film titled 'America's Answer' depicts participation of America in World War I. President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson seated at office. United States Army General John Joseph Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, reviews troops. Trees in the background.
Destroyer ships underway off the coast in France during World War I. Destroyer escorts convoy underway at sea.
Army Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) use a rail-mounted conveyer-type bucket dredge to deepen a channel for Allied ships on the Penfeld River at Brest, France, during World War 1. In the background, the Kerguillo mansion in the suburb Bohars, can be seen. The dreged spoils are being emptied into a string of open rail cars. Men work around the base of the dredge, loosening soil with long poles. Army engineers, including African American soldiers of the U.S. Army 501st Engineers work with French civilians to build wharfs on the Penfeld River. They stand with a rail car of concrete at the job site, and manually remove it when emptied. Construction supplies are piled up at the port, where 501st Engineer members are seen with other U.S. soldiers and French soldiers. View from rail car (not seen) moving along track, away from the port. A locomotive is seen with "USA" painted on its side,next to a newly constructed rail platform. A French workman carrying a large can walks next to the tracks. A railroad crane stands on a siding. Workmen build a station on the platform. (One raises his arms out wide for the camera.) An open rail car sits by the platform. A soldier from the 501st crosses the track near a rail car filled with wooden ties. View of U.S. troops running from work on a train of rail cars, as they respond to noon mess call. African American soldiers of the 501st Engineers getting lunch and eating at an outdoor mess. Four of them tap dance for the camera, as their comrades watch and clap.
Troops disembark ship in France during World War I. Ship underway at sea. It arrives at harbor. Troops disembark ship. They hold their belongings. The embattled veterans of France and Britain form honor escort to the comrades and march off to war
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