American President Woodrow Wilson in France for signing of Treaty of Versailles following the Armistice in World War 1. President Wilson and Mrs Wilson arrive at the Palace of Versailles during the signing of Peace Treaty between Germany and Allies at the end of World War I. President Wilson, Premier Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England leave the Palace of Versailles after signing the Peace Treaty. Huge Crowd waiting outside the Palace cheers as dignitaries come out.
Troops of the U.S. 92nd and 5th Infantry Divisions celebrate the Armistice in France at the end of World War 1. Several look at their wrist watches awaiting the stroke of 11AM when the Armistice is to go into effect. An army officer unfurls the United States flag as African American U.S. Army troops stand by. An African American soldier sits at a keyboard musical instrument. A close view of a field wrist watch shows time as quarter to eleven. The soldiers gather and read time on their wrist watches. At 11:00 O'Clock, the troops cheer and raise hands in celebration. Four army officers in a discussion. Troops of the 340th Field Artillery Regiment (89th Division) prepare to fire celebratory last round, from their French 75 field artillery piece.
Elements of the U.S. 18th Infantry in France during World War I. Soldiers gather around huge bomb or shell craters. A soldier inspects the crater. Barbed wire barriers. Troops in lattice-reinforced trenches and dugouts. A soldier stands in trench. An alarm bell seen next to him. (World War I. World War 1. WWI. WW1)
U.S. Army soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces, in France during World War 1. American Army troops in battle gear march along a street, watched by cheering French.civilians.. Soldiers move along the streets and pass through an archway. Soldiers waving as they move in convoy of army trucks. Columns of American soldiers march uphill and over a bridge bear two American soldiers washing at the river under the bridge. The troops at their camp. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
The uses and importance of weapons since ancient times in the United States. Pages showing U.S Congress Act creating the National Bureau for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, 1903. Exteriors of the 71st Regiment National Guard Armory building in New York City at Park Avenue and 33rd Street. People enter the building. German troops on parade circa 1914. American troops mobilized for World War 1, and traveling on troop trains in 1918. Troops moving along a muddy road, with military supplies in wagons being pulled by horses. American soldiers firing their 1903 Springfield rifles, from a bunker in France. Americans firing a M1914 Hotchkiss air-cooled machine gun and another U.S. gun crew firing a Browning M1917 water-cooled machine gun. U.S. troops wearing gas masks, firing a trench mortar. American gun crew firing a 155mm howitzer (as some hold their ears).French troops walk past destroyed buildings above which a blimp is seen flying with French observers in a gondola suspended underneath.
British forces manning 8-inch howitzers on the Western Front in World War 1. Others firing a 155mm heavy long gun near a village in France. British gunnery Sergeant using a megaphone to relay instructions to gun crew. Firing a heavy gun at close to zero elevation. Firing 8-pouder field pieces in the midst of trenches in No-Mans land. Firing a howitzer equipped with mud flaps (girdles) on its wheels to minimize bogging down in the mud. Glimpse of German soldiers unpacking artillery shells with a 15 cm Kanone 16 in the background. A British 8-pounder firing among trenches. British infantry moving across a quiet battlefield. A British Mark IV tank moving across trenches. A British battery of howitzers firing. Closeup of gun crew firing an 8-pounder from under camouflage covering. British troops lined up in a deep reinforced trench. They climb over the top. Glimpse of two German soldiers rushing up out of a reinforced bunker. British infantry advancing across battlefield, under fire. On carries a Lewis gun and the other a rifle with fixed bayonet. Huge explosions raise black smoke as a British Mark IV tank moves in foreground. German gunners in a fortified bunker, firing a Maxim MG 08 machine gun. Closeup of machine gun. View from trench underneath, as a British tank rolls overhead. View from above shows it is a Mark V "male" tank, armed with a short 6-pounder (57-mm) Hotchkiss gun in the right sponson. British infantry running across the battlefield with smoke everywhere. A shell strikes and one soldier falls ans rolls over. . Another glimpse of German machine gunners firing. View from behind barbed wire as a British Mark V tank advances toward the camera. White smoke is punctuated by puffs of black smoke from shelling. A line of soldiers are silhouetted against light sky as they flee across a hill top. A shell striking and fire burning in a French village. Views of desolate "no man's land." British infantry, including pipers, walking across the battlefield. Stubs of trees and destroyed remains of a village. A line of British infantry leaning forward in trench behind an earthen berm. They charge over the top. One remains lying against the hill. Troops silhouetted against the sky as they move across the battlefield and down a deep ravine and up the other side.
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