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Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWI. Show all posts

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Rin Tin Tin

Rin Tin Tin (often billed as Rin-Tin-Tin in the 1920s and 1930s) was the name given to a dog adopted from a WWI battlefield that went on to star in 23 Hollywood films, gaining worldwide fame.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Treaty of Versailles Signing

Treaty of Versailles Signing, Hall of Mirrors, (1919), Dignitaries gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign the peace treaty ending WW I (Photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland (1890-1979) and Lucian Swift Kirtland (died 1965)
Source: The Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

African American Infantry Regiment



The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the United States Army that saw action in World War I and World War II. The 369th Infantry is known for being the first African-American regiment to serve with the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. The regiment was nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters and the Black Rattlers, in addition to several other nicknames.
 Wikipedia

Monday, September 24, 2012

Vintage Photo

"First to Fight." A group of U.S. Marines. US Marine Corps Recruiting Publicity Bureau., 1918 
Source: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration | American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled 1917 - 1918 (Record Group 165) | War Department

Ike Sims

Has eleven sons in service. Ike Sims of Atlanta, Georgia, 87 years old, has eleven sons in the service.
1917 - ca. 1919
Source: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, compiled1917 - 1918 (Record Group 165) | War Department

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Vintage Photos

Vintage WWI Aviation Battle Action Photo, airplanes drop bombs onto the battlefield

Vintage WWI Aviation Battle Action Photo, biplane over the soldiers heavy artillery

Source: crazywebsite


Vintage Postcard

French World War I vintage postcards

Source: bonjourparis