As a contingent of U. S. soldiers presents arms, American Red Cross Captain Wynn and U.S. Army Captain, Hall, raise a United States flag and a Red Cross flag over a hospital in Arkhangelsk (Archangel) Russia during the Allied North Russia Intervention of world War 1. Russian nuns (nurses) who staff the hospital, at Troitsky Avenue, near Olga barracks, take part in the ceremony. View of U.S. Army band marching down a street with their instruments as local children and villagers look on. (Note: This flag-raising constituted an act of defiance by U.S. Red Cross and Army medical personnel, since British medical authorities had opposed starting an American hospital in Archangel. It became the first Red Cross Hospital there, that was jointly staffed by Russian and American Red Cross nurses. Captain Wynn,with the American Red Cross, equipped the hospital, and American Army Captain Hall and Lieutenant Kiley administered it.) (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Russian women and a few men, work together to remove stumps from a field in Archangel (Arkhangelsk) Russia, where trees were recently harvested for lumber. They dig with picks and shovels and uproot a stump. Then a group of about 25 women works in unison to roll the huge stump away. An American soldier stands nearby as they work. [Footage from the United States Army 85th Division, 339th Infantry, American Expeditionary Force North Russia, participating as part of the Triple Entente forces, in the so-called "Polar Bear Expedition." Two thirds of the soldiers were from Michigan.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Activities of German soldiers after battle for Woronesch (aka Aussprache or Voronezh), Russia during German summer offensive of 1942, in World War 2. A map shows areas of engagement in Russia. View of the city from hilltop. Destroyed houses and buildings. Wrecked tanks in the area. Smoke rises from fires still burning. Dead soldiers lying on a street. Ruins of buildings along the sides of the street. A group of local Russian men going to work, are monitored by German soldier. A German soldier cleans his face with water from a tin. German soldiers milk a cow and share the milk. A soldier breaking eggs in a skillet, over an open fire in a field. Soldiers eating fried eggs.
Civilians with their belongings flee from plague and famine affected areas in Soviet Russia not long after end of World War I. Horse-drawn wagons pass on road. Refugees wait for evacuation boats near the Volga River. Famine victims in rural Kasan, Soviet Russia. Victims and children die due to starvation in their mothers' arms. An old age lady starves with a boy leaning against pole. Men, women and children together outside tents. Hungry children crowd around a soldier giving out morsels of bread. American Relief Administration supplies being unloaded from train at railroad station. An armed military guard stands nearby. People queued up for food. Steaming hot soup or stew is being served to citizens. Children receiving food in the soup line and eating . Malnourished children examined and assisted by relief experts Dr Vernon Lyman Kellogg and Elmer Burland.
Russian children bundled up against the cold, pose on a pier at Archangel Russia, as U.S. sodiers of the 339th Infantry arrive during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. One child holds a container of milk bottles. An American soldier gives each child a coin. A Russian girl wearing a hooded coat over her dress and leggings, eats a biscuit. A Russian boy, wearing boots, picks up something from the pier. Another boy holds a container of milk bottles. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
U.S. soldiers, of the American Expeditionary Force North Russia (AEFNR) visit an outdoor market, during the Allied North Russia Intervention of World War 1. Primarily from the 339th Infantry Regiment, they examine goods for sale. Some show interest in mittens and gloves. Local people are also customers at the market. A horse-drawn wagon brings barrels of liquid into the marketplace. A small Russian girl stands near American soldiers as they shop. Local people make purchases from a food vendor. An American soldier purchases a pair of mittens. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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