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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
US TROOPS
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in GERMANY
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page 1
Trèves
American troops on Hun soil.
A German officer receiving instructions as to where to report, from the American M.P.
United States Army Signal Corps, photographe
1 December 1918
Caption from Catalogue of Official A.E.F. photographs taken by the Signal Corps, U.S.A., 1919:
Col. C.H. Hodges, First Division and interpreter, making arrangements
with Inspector Ludveg, a German officer, for the use of Maximin barracks.
Treves, Germany. December 1, 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Neuwied
Entrance gate to Rommersdorf Abbey, Germany
12-31-18
NARA111-SC-48483
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
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Erich Walther, a local historian in the Rhineland, kindly provided these comments and links relative to the Rommersdorf Abbey:
This entrance gate is called Engeltor. (Angeldoor)
This gate is now elaborately restored with all sculptures.
A text and image report can be found at the following weblink:
[images of the restoration work of the sculptures and the arch completed in 2018, 100 years after this photograph was taken.]
Nieuwied
Altwied Castle, Germany
between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Niederahr
Members of 128th Inf. watching threshing, Niederahr, Germany
1-2-19
NARA111-SC-48489
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Sayn
New Schloss and lower section of old ruins, Sayn, Germany
1-4-19
NARA111-SC-48499
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Prüm
HQs 177th Brigade Inf, 89thDiv. at Prüm, Germany
1-6-19
NARA.111-SC-49010
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Sayn
Castle of Sayn, Germany
1-4-19
NARA111-SC-48498
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Coblenz
38th Inf. Reg. 3d Army supply train moving thru Coblenz, Germany
12-16-18
NARA111-SC-49082
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Ehrenbreitstein
Train station at Ehrenbreitstein with Coblenz across Rhine River Coblenz, Germany
12-13- 18
NARA111-SC-49403
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
SS Stadt Dusseldorf on the Rhine, Andernach, Germany
2-6-19
NARA111-SC-51577
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Andernach
Andernach
SS Mosel, Andernach, Germany
2-6-19
NARA111-SC-51579
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Kees Kort comment
The US plane was probably pasted in later.
(today we would say Photoshopped in)
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It is a Salmson 2 A2.
Andernach
SS Frauenlab with American plane , 3rd Div. Andernach, Germany
2-6-19
NARA 111-SC-51576
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Andernach
SS Albertus Magnus, Andernach Germany
2-6-19
NARA111-SC-51578
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Andernach
Excursion boat, Preussen, on Rhine River, Andernach, Germany
2-6-19
NARA111-SC-51575
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Adenau
167th Inf. [Col W. P. Screws commander] Adenau, Germany
12-13-18
NARA111-SC-38602-ac edited
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Alken
'Burg Thursandt' restored castle on Moselle River.
Viewed from town of Alken.
1-10-19
NARA111-SC-45143
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Sayn
Y.M.C.A. at Sayn, Germany
Bain News Service, publisher
between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Bullay
American troops crossing the Rhine, Germany
United States Army Signal Corps, photographer
6 December 1918.
Caption from Catalogue of Official A.E.F.
photographs taken by the Signal Corps, U.S.A., 1919:
Men of Second Field Battalion. Signal Corps, crossing ferry over Moselle River
from Alf A.D. Mosele to Bullay, Germany.
December 6, 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
U.S. Army enters Germany
Photograph shows American soldiers moving into Germany at the end of World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)
1918 or 1919
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Trèves
American troops entering Germany.
The field kitchen may be seen plainly
United States Army Signal Corps, photographer
1 December 1918
Caption from Catalogue of Official A.E.F. photographs taken by the Signal Corps, U.S.A., 1919:
View showing interest of German populace as Army mess kitchen goes through Treves.
Treves, Germany, December 1, 1918.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Wormeldange
Wincheringen
American troops on the bridge leading into Germany from Luxembourg.
The centre of the bridge, where the soldiers are standing, marks the borderline
United States Army Signal Corps, photographer
30 November 1918
Caption from Catalogue of Official A.E.F. photographs taken by the Signal Corps, U.S.A., 1919:
Capt. N.A. Bourour, interpreter to First Division, and party of Twenty-eighth Regiment Infantry,
First Division, the first Americans to cross into German territory
Wormeldange, Luxemburg, to Wincheringen, Germany.
Wormeldange, Luxemburg. November 30, 1918]
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)