PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR NO 2 [Main Title]

I. US newsreel of King Albert of Belgium in Paris with President Poincaré on a formal visit, entering a carriage with a French Cavalry escort, late 1918.

II. The US Contingent of the North Russian Intervention Force and its Bolshevik prisoners help to build a wooden camp, "Camp Michigan", Archangel, late 1918.

III. The US contingent on the Italian Front, 332nd Infantry Regiment (part of 83rd (Ohio) Division) crosses the River Piave by pontoon bridge and marches through the gateway of the town of Villaroba, late 1918.

IV. US newsreel of the centre of Metz shortly after the Armistice, Western Front, November 1918.

V. US newsreel of Mayor Max of Brussels being greeted by a cheering crowd in front of the town hall following his release from a German prison after the Armistice, November 1918.

VI. US newsreel of their own forces on the Western Front, 17th October 1918.

VII. US newsreel of their own forces on the Western Front, 18th October 1918.

The local people have torn down the statue of Karl Friedrich. The French Army enters the city in triumphal procession, which includes a parade of girls in local dress, and passes through the Place d'Armais.

A tractor in 26th (Yankee) Division sector near Beaumont pulls a line of wagons intended for road construction work. Staff of 31st (Dixie) Division at Châtel-Chéhéry waiting in reserve, left to right Major-General L S Lyon commanding, Colonel K A Joyce Chief of Staff, Captain E R Armsbly ADC and Captain C E McDowell. General John J Pershing confers with Major-General G B Duncan, commanding 82nd (All American) Division at his divisional headquarters in the same area.

The town of Brieulles, behind the US lines in 32nd (Iron Jaws) Division area, with troops moving through. A "gas station", in fact a first-aid post where Lieutenant A M McLeod, surgeon of 11th Infantry Regiment, checks gas and shrapnel victims. The post is at Madeleine Farm, headquarters of 5th (Red Diamond) Division, between Nantillois and Cunel. Men of 6th and 11th Infantry Regiments rest nearby. In action next to men of 5th Division is a 75mm field gun battery of 3rd (Marne) Division. The crew of one gun, in action in a wood, being left to right Lieutenant R W Stansbury, Sergeant Dennis Dubois, Private L Wisniewski, Corporal Alvin Carlson and Corporal D D Read. Officers of 1st Battalion, 61st Infantry Regiment, 5th Division in front of their command post, left to right Lieutenant R E Wilson, Captain E W Sheppard commanding, and Lieutenant R V Maraist. A dump of 6,000 shells for 155mm howitzers, one day's supply for III Corps, east of Sepharges. Renault FT17 light tanks undergoing repair from 321st Company, 302nd Tank Center at Varennes-en-Argonne. Furniture being unloaded for the heavily camouflaged headquarters of 26th Division, in reserve at Bras.

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