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President Woodrow Wilson and the American delegation in Houthulst forest in Belgium during the Paris Peace Conference.
Events during the Paris Peace Conference. View of Houthulst forest in Belgium. United States President Woodrow Wilson along with his American Delegation is on a sightseeing trip in Belgium. They are accompanied by King Albert I and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium. The entire team is seen enjoying a picnic and having lunch under a tent. Queen Elizabeth takes the picture of the lunch party. A french guard and other men standing along the side of a motor car.
82nd Airborne troops take surrounding villages near Stavelot, Belgium (WW2)
United States Army 82nd Airborne troops take positions around Stavelot, Belgium in World War II. The soldiers make a “Sign of the Cross” during a brief religious service led by chaplain of the 504th Parachute Infantry. Soldiers running in Stavelot. 82nd Airborne troops in prone position shoot with rifles. A soldier shooting with an M1919 Browning machine gun. Abandoned and damaged German heavy equipment and vehicles scattered near Stavelot. 82nd Airborne troops take surrounding villages south of Stavelot. A soldier fires a bazooka near a house. Another soldier throws a grenade into a window of a basement where German soldiers may be hiding. 82nd Airborne troops engage in street fighting. Soldier fires a rifle from behind a stone wall. A battalion of the 35th infantry division marching through snow covered forests and over steep hills on the southern side of the salient. 35th infantry division makes a maneuver in the Sauer River section to outflank a town on the Belgian-Luxembourg border.
United States troops pray with chaplain, shelter in snow. (WW2)
United States troops attend a religious service in the bivouac area in Les Avenanterres, Belgium during World War II. Kneeling soldiers stand up in the snow-covered forest. The hood of a jeep is used as an altar. The soldiers disperse after the service ended. Soldiers of the Hq Co, 3rd Battalion, 508th Infantry Parachute Regiment, 83rd Division AB Infantry leave the bivouac area and march on snowy road. A man walks toward a solitary house. Soldiers take refuge from the snow inside a partially destroyed stone house. Icicles hanging from the house’s roof. A soldier reads a paper. Soldier cleans M1919 Browning machine gun. Troops shaving their faces. A soldier cooks by heating an open can over fire.
U.S. Army aircraft patrol for forest fires, in 1919, in the United States. Bulldozers and forest plows introduced in 1932
World War I scenes of U.S. Army airplanes in action at the front. A picture of U.S. Army Major Henry A. (Hap) Arnold and California Forester Kurt Dubois, who, together, started the fire patrol practice by United States Army aircraft in1919. Army flyers lined up on a field. Army Curtis JN-4 (Jenny) airplanes in flight as smoke rises from the forests below. Weighted messages with ribbons attached, being dropped by pilots while in flight to inform about a forest fire. Later on after the installation of radios a pilot sends a message on a radio set in case of a forest fire. In 1920s, Crawler tractors used to skid logs out of the forest. In 1925, tractor with a blade was developed and used to build forest roads. In 1932, a Bulldozer being used to create firebreaks during a Southern California fire. A fire plow in operation.
United States troops move against German counterattacks, Belgian civilians flee during the Battle of the Bulge (WWII)
Allied troops move against German counterattacks in Belgium and Western Germany during World War II. United States troops move along a muddy road in Belgium. Incendiary explosion. Tire on fire from incendiary. A soldier looks at wrecked American military jeeps and ruined buildings. Heavy smoke rises from a pile of wreckage. Fleeing civilians walk on the road on foot. Some of the civilians bring bicycles. Belgian Roman Catholic priests wearing Cappello romano hats are seen moving with the group. African American motorized infantry moving into Belgium. An African American soldier smoking cigarette on passing truck. Soldiers in the Ardennes Forest. A soldier plants M1 anti-tank mines in the Ardennes. He places a mine in a hole in the ground. The soldier covers the mine with a pile of dried leaves. Soldiers setting up roadblocks and covering tanks with foliage for camouflage. An M3 Stuart light tank is covered with hay to disguise as a haystack. United States soldiers carefully search the field for Nazi paratroopers. A soldier finds abandoned parachute equipment and white snow cape. Soldiers inspect passing trucks at an intersection between Bastogne and Martelange in Wallonia, Belgium. Belgian civilians fleeing a German advance on Highway 15. American Military Police personnel diligently searching for disguised German soldiers to prevent infiltration. A Military Police officer inspects a Belgian man’s identification paper. Military Police personnel questions a driver of a Jeep. Soldiers digging a dugout. Soldier with an M1917 Browning Machine gun. Artillery crew firing a M101 105 mm Howitzer. A pile of shells stands beside the Howitzer. An officer gives out orders to fire over telephone. Howitzer Motor Carriage M8 tanks firing in the Ardennes. A soldier inspects with binoculars. Infantry troops moving across a field and village. Soldiers firing rifles from behind a stone fence. A soldier deposits a charge into a basement window, followed by explosion. Soldier fires bazooka in haze. Soldiers looking up to the sky searching for air support. Allied bombers flying over Belgium. British Royal Air Force bombers dropping bombs over a road junction as seen from bomb bay view.
The Battle of the Bulge in Ardennes, Belgium, 1944 (WW2)
Animated map showing disposition of Allied and opposing German forces in Belgium during World War II. Highlighted places include the River Meuse, Bastogne, and Liege. Brief glimpse of German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, commander of the German Army Command in the West. German troops riding through forest over light snow on a King Tiger II tank. The tank churning up dirt and snow at high speed in another scene. German infantry moving through the forest at dusk. Illustrated map shows national flags delineating battle fronts and the German breakout (Bulge in the line) aiming toward Antwerp Harbor through Liege. Next are series of rapidly changing battle scenes showing American troops in house-to-house combat near houses and stores of towns, moving through smoke and mist, one throwing a hand grenade into an apartment building, helping one another move through buildings, setting off explosives, communicating on a field telephone, moving through burning rubble, and running across snow around industrial buildings. Dramatic camera shakes are seen during some of the nearby explosions. Two U.S. soldiers silhouetted against the snow as place a wounded buddy in a sheltered spot. One places a bandage around the neck of the injured soldier. American medics carrying wounded on litters, across a snowy field containing a several fallen soldiers. One soldier calls for a medic. Corpsmen moving on to a new battlefield. U.S. troops firing machine guns from atop Sherman tanks in a city as infantrymen crouch behind the tanks. Glimpse from inside, of a German soldier firing an Mg34 model machine gun out a building window. Embattled American troops and trucks moving past burning buildings. Closeups of American GIs dashing from building to building and firing from improvised shelter. A bazooka fired out a building window strikes a tank, which is seen burning. Individual soldiers running for shelter as Medical Corpsmen carry the wounded on litter the opposite way. Scene shifts to British forces moving in from further North, through the snow. Glimpse of women and children and aged folks, in Belgium, frightened by the goings on. An old woman holds a small girl who is crying. British infantry advancing into action across a snowy field. A British machine gunner firing from a protected position. U.S. troops entrenched in deep snow. December 24th, clearing weather allowed some Allied air support to aid the troops. Glimpse of aircraft contrails. Formations of Allied aircraft overhead. Aerial view of a formation of British Hawker Typhoon fighter bombers in flight. View from a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in flight with others creating thick contrails at high altitude. Pilot and copilot in cockpit of a bomber in flight. American soldiers on the ground watching with binoculars. U.S. Army Air Forces Republic P-47 Thunderbolt overhead, break out of formation and dive to attack German ground targets. American GIs on the ground cheer as they watch. A huge explosion takes place near an American crew manning a heavy gun pointing point blank with zero elevation. American soldiers load rockets into a truck-mounted launcher. Several truck-mounted launchers firing their rocket barrages. U.S. infantry advancing atop tanks, in armored personnel carriers, and on foot. They carry axes, shovels, and similar tools along with their weapons. Army trucks entering a town. The infantry moving through a forest. More troops on vehicles of all kinds moving into a town.
