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FAMOUS PEOPLE

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Prince Leopold III of Belgium

Georges Clémenceau

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Georges Clémenceau

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Prince Leopold III of Belgium and M. Georges Clemenceau Paris 12-5-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Paris

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Winston Churchill

William Billy Mitchell

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Winston Churchill and Billy Mitchell at American Independence Day Celebration,

London Jul 4, 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111.

AMERICAN AVIATOR WILLIAM “BILLY” MITCHELL was born in Nice, France, in 1879, and grew up speaking French as well as he spoke English.

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He joined the U.S. Army on the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 and as a second lieutenant saw action

against the guerrillas of Emilio Aguinaldo in the Philippines.

 

After the war he led a pathfinding mission for a telegraph cable route across the Alaskan wilderness.

 

While journeying across the territory’s vast expanses, he developed a keen interest in aviation, then a brand-new technology.

 

He worked as an intelligence officer for the U.S. Army General Staff in 1912 and learned to fly in 1915.

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After the United States entered World War I on the side of the Allies in April 1917, Mitchell, by then a colonel,

was appointed commander of the Army’s Air Service in France.

 

He was from the start an innovator in the use of airpower, and deployed his aircraft in large-scale bombing attacks against German targets

in addition to their more usual roles of reconnaissance and fighting enemy warplanes.

 

After the war Mitchell loudly criticized the hidebound army and navy officers who did not share

his vision of airpower and refused to finance their aviators in the cash-strapped postwar era.

William Howard Taft

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Former President Taft taking to his son, Charles, at Fort Myer - 1917

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 165.

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Arthur Woods

Archie Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr

Arthur Woods, Archie Roosevelt. Capt. D. W. White and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

at Plattsburg Training Camp, NY 1917

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 165.

Walter Henry Gordon

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Verdun

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MG Walter Henry Gordon [1863 - 1924] commanding 6th Division,

Verdun, Meuse, France Nov. 18, 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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King George V

James Henry McRae

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Roëllecourt

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King George V entering car after visiting MG James McRae, Cmdr, 78th Div. HQs

at Roëllecourt, France Aug. 8, 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Brécy

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F. D. Roosevelt, Ass't Sec. Navy, touring war zone near Brecy, Aisne, France Aug. 5, 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Douglas McArthur

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BG Douglas McArthur, 84th Brigade, 42nd Div. near Bresmes, France Aug. 4, 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Douglas McArthur

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Baccarat

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Col. Douglas MacArthur at manoeuvers near Baccarat, France 5-9-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Douglas McArthur

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Douglas MacArthur joking around in 1912 as 4 star General

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Source of photograph: Harris & Ewing Collection; Library of Congress.

Sir Henry Home

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Colonel G. Sinonds

Elsie Janis

Sweatheart of the AEF

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Fruges

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Elsie Janis

Sweatheart of the AEF

Gen. Sir Henry Home, cmdr 1st British Army [R],

Elsie Janis - Sweatheart of Doughboys [MIDDLE],

Col. G. Sinonds, Chief of Staff, 2nd. Army Corps [L],

Fruges, France 7-22-1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

George S Patton

Interestingly,

Dwight Eisenhower was

the Commander of

the Army Tank Corps

at Camp Colt

near Gettysburg, PA

at that time.

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LTC George S. Patton Jr. commander, 1st Tank Center, France July 15, 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Dwight Eisenhower

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1915

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Capt, D. Eisenhower 1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives, RG-165, Motor Vehicles - Tanks

John Pershing

Ferdinand Foch

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Ferdinand Foch

Gen Foch and Gen. Pershing - 6-17-1918

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Source of Picture: National Archives Records Group 165, Personnel

William Benson

John Pershing

Noël Jean Baptiste Dumas

René Besnard

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Rene Besnard, Under Sec. of State for War Ministry, Gen. Pershing and Gen. Dumas in France 1917 NARA165-WW-411B-005

Source of Picture: National Archives Records Group 165, Personnel

John Pershing

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Brest

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Gen. Pershing, CINC of Am. Expeditionary Forces and Admiral W. S. Benson,

Chief of Naval Operations preparing to greet Pres. Wilson in France 1918

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Source of Picture: National Archives Records Group 165, Personnel

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René Besnard

President Wilson

John Pershing

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Langres

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President Wilson and General Pershing leaving after reviewing 10,000 American Troops

near Langres, France 12-25-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

John Pershing

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Gondrecourt le Château

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General Pershing reviewing the 88th Inf. Div. near Gondrecourt France with his son - Apr. 1919

Source of Picture: National Archives Records Group 165, Personnel

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Warren Pershing

Colonel Charles Lincoln

Gondrecourt le Château

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Warren Pershing and Col. Charles Lincoln at Divison Review near Gondrecourt France 4-19-1919 NARA165-WW-411B-057

Source of Picture: National Archives Records Group 165, Personnel

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President Wilson

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President Wilson and Lord Mayor of Manchester, England 12-30-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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President Wilson

King George V

Queen Mary

President & Mrs. Wilson with King George V and Queen Mary

at Victoria Station, London, England 12-31-18

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

President Wilson

King of Italy

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President Wilson and King of Italy enroute to Rome Italy Jan 4, 1919

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Nuri Pasha al-Said

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Nuri Pasha al-Said [December 1888 – 15 July 1958] at Hotel Crillon, Paris ca1918

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

HRH Prince Faisal

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HRH Prince Faisal, Arabian representative, Peace Conference, Paris 1-22-19

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Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

Rosario Pisani

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HRH Prince Faisal

Nuri Pasha al-Said

Thomas Edward Lawrence

"Lawrence of Arabia"

Versailles

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Thomas Edward Lawrence

"Lawrence of Arabia"

Emir Faisal's delegation at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.

Nuri Pasha al-Said is positioned second from the left.

Left to right: Rustum Haidar,

Nuri as-Said, Prince Faisal,

Captain Pisani (behind Faisal), 

Colonel T.E. Lawrence,

unknown person,

Captain Tahsin Kadry.

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Rosario Pisani

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