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U.S. Connecticut Class battleships used as troop transports at end of World War 1.
Several views of U.S. Connecticut class battleships used as troop trnasports at the end of World War 1. They are seen in the harbor at Brest, France, in 1919. Port bow closeup of one with American soldiers seen on deck. Several single-stack troop transport ships filled with soldiers, making their way out of the port. A large three-stacker passenger ship. view from fast moving small boat of a loaded troop transport underway.
Ships transport U.S. Soldiers returning home from France at the end of World War I.
A French boat named the "Wenette" ferrying American troops, is seen alongside a two funnel ocean liner, in Brest Harbor, France, at the end of World War 1. A Connecticut class American battleship is also seen in the harbor, to transport troops home from the war. Another two-stacker ocean liner anchored in the harbor. American soldiers fill the decks of an armed transport ship, flying the American flag. Several views of French tug boats assisting a transport ship as it leaves the harbor. A large 4-funnnel transport ship surrounded by tugs and other small boats. Closeup of an armed transport ship filled with soldiers, making way slowly out of the harbor.
The ship RMS Olympic transporting troops returning home from France at end of World War I
Opening scene shows clear images of the ocean liner, RMS Olympic (sister ship of the RMS Titanic) in the harbor at Brest, France, right after World War 1. American soldiers boarding a small ferry boat at a pier. The ferry boat is then seen tied up beside the Olympic. The deck of a large ferry boat filled with United States soldiers. Soldiers entering a hatch of the ferry boat. A barge containing coal, tied up to the RMS Olympic. Workers smile for the camera as they shovel coal into the bunkers of the Olympic. Civilian passengers on deck of the RMS Olympic, chatting with an American Navy and Army officer. Soldiers with their gear gathered on a pier. They use a gangplank to board another transport ship.
President Woodrow Wilson and his party returns to the U.S. from France on June 29, 1919
Opening slate refers to President Wilson departing from Brest, Finistere, France, to return to the U.S. on June 29, 1919. View of the president and party descending stairs from Wharf to a dock, where they board a French Gun Boat. View of the presidential party looking aft from the French boat with her tricolor colors flying. Smoke rises from the shore where a battery of guns is firing a 21-gun salute. Members of the Presidential party step from the French boat and up a ladder to a floating dock beside the USS George Washington ocean liner. President and Mrs Edith Wilson pose on the dock as other members of their party join them and all board the ocean liner through a door in her side. Passengers and crew aboard the USS George Washington celebrate the 4th of July in the middle of the Atlantic ocean en route from France to the U.S. They watch pairs of sailors, in boxing gloves, straddling a massive horizontal pole, attempting to unseat their opponents. Members of the Presidential party, along with many servicemen, watch the fun from the ship's hurricane deck. President and Mrs. Wilson are right at the deck railing.
Civil war breaks out in Russia after Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, in year after Russian Revolution
After Lenin makes peace with Germany, civil war breaks out in Russia. White Russian troops are seen fighting against Bolshevik troops in the snow. American soldiers, supporting the White Russians, are seen in Archangel (Arkhangelsk). Cossacks on horseback carry the Tsarist flag. The Romanovs, Tsar Nicholas II and his family are photographed outdoors seated on a wooden bench by barricade fence at Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg. Bolsheviks arresting other revolutionaries who were opposed to them, and executing them by firing squad. Vladimir Lenin with cat in his lap. View of Fanny Yefimovna Kaplan (AKA "Dora") who attempted to assassinate Lenin on August 30, 1918. View of Lenin speaking to Soviet workers. Newspaper of September 1, 1918 reports on the assassination attempt, with dateline London, August 31st: "Lenin wounded twice by assassin. Attempt on Red Premier's life at Moscow. Commissary Uritzky murdered at Petrograd." Crowd in turmoil in Moscow. Newspaper reports capture of would-be assassin, noting that "official Bolshevist paper says, "She is girl of intellectual class." Narrator states that some 500 anti-Bolsheviks are executed in Moscow.
Liberation of several French cities from German Nazi troops in World War II.
Marseilles: View of the French port. British, French and American Naval officers examine German demolition of the port town. Officers survey unfinished U-Boat pens. Toulon: Destroyed German ships in the harbor. Bologne: German coastal guns in ruins. Destroyed artillery. Le Havre: Destroyed buildings and ruins in the town. Unfinished German U-Boat pens. Destroyed artillery. Brest: Destroyed buildings and ruins. German soldiers wave a white flag of surrender on September 18, 1944. U.S, Army Major General. W.M. Robertson , 2nd Infantry Division discusses the surrender with German Colonel E. Pietzonka of the 7th German Parachute Regiment. German soldiers assemble in the main square of the city during the surrender operation.