World War One

[Louis]

Armistice Day parade in Masterton, NZ, Nov 1918.

 

[Nort]

They were trying to trick the Axis Powers into thinking that New Zealand actually had tanks.

 

[Louis]

Then & now...
June 28, 1919, European leaders sign the famous Treaty in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

 

[Gunner]

Black and white picture sure doesn't do the hall any justice.
Wow.

 

[Nort]

thats my wife Mary in the blue vest.

 

[Nathangun]

thats my wife Mary in the blue vest.

Who's taking the photo?

 

[Gunner]

What? There's no throne to sit in?

 

[Nathangun]

What? There's no throne to sit in?

You would have your head chopped off if you sat on it.

 

[Louis]

In the Copenhagen City Hall, citizens follow the newest movements of Europe's armies on a large map. 1914

 

[Louis]

An Austro-Hungarian posing with a puppy, 1917.

 

[Louis]

A captured portable concrete-mixing machines, used in the construction of the Hindenburg Line, Oct 1918.

 

[Gunner]

Ha! When the pic first opened and for a split second I thought it some kind of artillery piece.
My Pavlovian response.

 

[Louis]

Bulgarian soldiers in position to fire against an incoming Allied aircraft in the Southern Front.-

 

[Louis]

Three Austro-Hungarian soldiers answering nature's call at the front.