Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. Military band plays at a parade in New York, United States. Decorated float of Signal Corps and other units at the parade. Men and women march as people watch them. Military ambulances and other vehicles move past large crowds on street sides.
Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. Captured German tanks of World War I paraded on streets in New York, United states. Floats decorated as ships, vessels, barrage balloons and medical aid room at the parade. Float of Chemical Warfare Department. People gather to look at the parade. A barrage balloon of the U.S. Army Air Service.
Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. Audiences seated as cars drive past them in New York, United States. Soldiers fire rifles from behind sand bag mounds and piles of shells. Tanks roll around the field. Eloise Mann with two men in Van Cortlandt Park. They ascend in a United States Army balloon as people look on. A pillar of smoke rises from below.
Liberty Loan Drive in United States during World War I. United States Army balloon descends in New York as people gathered around look at it. A plane in flight.
World War I Draft and mobilization activities in 1917-1918. American WWI military recruits get down from a railroad train to get to the training camp. U.S. Military officials board the seized Dutch steamer ship in New York Harbor (seized as a neutral vessel during timeframe that Dutch ships under the modus vivendi agreement with the allies were threatened by German U-boats). The ship appears to be the Nieuw Amsterdam. (Lettering behind officials as they board is clearly "Amsterdam" but there is an obstructed word before that may be "Nieuw". Several Dutch ships were seized by U.S. military officials during this same month, including the Nieuw Amsterdam). Crew on the deck of the steamer ship Amsterdam. Dutch flag flying on the ship.
Draft and WWI mobilization activities for American men in 1918. Draftees under the Selective Service system get their documents checked by officials. Doctors examine the draftees for military recruitment. Men carry their baggage and move away in a train. Military recruits at a receiving station, lined up. They are seen carrying rifles and marching, beginning their drills, though still dressed in civilian clothing. View of the men marching and Statue of Liberty seen in the distance on the horizon.
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