Black Dudley Posted 4 January , 2012 Share Posted 4 January , 2012 I've a number of postcards with the theme American Soldiers on the Western Front, thought perhaps start a thread for American Forces postcards and photos on the Western Front - First shows American soldiers advancing along the road. Belleau - Wood - France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dudley Posted 4 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 4 January , 2012 This card from the same series as the above - American Heavy Artillery moving into action - France Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dudley Posted 7 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 7 January , 2012 Another Post card from the series - Wounded American being taken out of a trench , after a artillery barrage . Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendy Macpherson Posted 7 January , 2012 Share Posted 7 January , 2012 Hi BD Yes would love to see your collection of postcards Keep them comming (Men in #3 wearing hats similar to the Kiwi's lemon squeezer) Wendy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 8 January , 2012 Share Posted 8 January , 2012 Surly these 'guys' would have tin hats on after an artillery bombardment as stated on the card.......? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dudley Posted 9 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January , 2012 Wendy, Bob, Thanks for the posts. Bob, I too wondered about the "soft" hats the american soldiers were wearing, doesn't seem feasible that they would be wearing them under a artillery bombardment. I think, we can take it, that this particular photo was a posed for picture. Perhaps the American photographers were new to taking war pictures - overlooked the obvious. Here's another colour postcard from the "Defenders of Humanity on Land" series again the troops are wearing soft felt hats in camp, this time the attire is entirely appropriate to the setting. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 9 January , 2012 Share Posted 9 January , 2012 Might they have removed their helmets after the bombardment stopped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 9 January , 2012 Share Posted 9 January , 2012 Might they have removed their helmets after the bombardment stopped? I would not have thought so........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dudley Posted 13 January , 2012 Author Share Posted 13 January , 2012 American Soldiers using flame throwers under the watchful eyes of French officers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 13 January , 2012 Share Posted 13 January , 2012 Hi BD! Have pm d you....sorry re delay! Re the Americans evacuating a wounded soldier. I suspect a mock shot. After arrival in france the campagne hat proved unsuitable and the Americans adopted a french style garrison / bonnet du police cap! I suspect the photo to be a training shot perhaps and relatively early if taken in france. Nice images though. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 American Soldiers using flame throwers under the watchful eyes of French officers Actually those are French soldiers using the flamethrowers. What happened was that this was a demonstration by the French to American officers in France in 1917, and somehow the caption was garbled. Here's a photo of the same flamethrower troops moving into position before firing. You can see the American officers in the background with their campaign hats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Bavarian Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 7 displays men of Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division, the first American prisoners taken in the war. The doughboys were captured during a night attack on the Rhine-Marne Canal, November 3, 1917, carried out by a 200-man shock troop. One of the shock troopers stands on the left, holding his rifle, bandolier, and hand-grenade bags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 American, French, and Italian soldiers, date and place unknown. The American's collar disks both say "USA," and his cap has "13 A" in metal. The Frenchman is from the 289th Infantry Regiment, and the Italian from the 79th. Prisoners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Doughboys of the First Army displaying their German trophies, France, 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Cpl. Hall, Pvt. Rutill, and Cpl. Gisler, Company M, 308th Infantry Regiment, France, July 21, 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Engineer with French girl, 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Doughboys with two German aviators brought down at Charny, France, summer of 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Engineers with camouflaged helmets, some displaying an unidentified unit badge on the front, France, 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Artillerymen, Third Army, France, 1918. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 "My buddy Joe during the World War, near where he got 9 machine gun bullet wounds, shrapnel, liquid fire, and mustard gas, resulting to[sic] nine months in a French hospital. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom W. Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Sergeant, 1st Gas Regiment, attached to the Third Army. (The tunic this man is wearing was recently sold on eBay.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph0ebus Posted 22 January , 2012 Share Posted 22 January , 2012 Then there is this photo of Sergeant John Letzing, 104th Infantry, 26th Division, with German POW Robert Fröhlich. Official US picture made on February 17, 1918. I wonder what became of both these fellas? -Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trajan Posted 23 January , 2012 Share Posted 23 January , 2012 Engineers with camouflaged helmets, some displaying an unidentified unit badge on the front, France, 1918. That 'unidentified unit badge' is a tad too close to a 'this is a bullseye target - please aim here' for my liking! Trajan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dudley Posted 4 February , 2012 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2012 Tom, I must congratulate you. You have shown some excellent portrait photos of American soldiers with their uniforms and equipment . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Dudley Posted 4 February , 2012 Author Share Posted 4 February , 2012 U.S. Signal corps photo warning about the danger gas fumes pose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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