Les Invalides Gallery of the Two World Wars |
Dead Flag Bearer of the 16th Altmark and Cuirassier from the 7th Regiment of Von Bredow Brigade-Battle of Rezanville, 1870 |
Dead Flag Bearer (Uhlan) of the 16th Regiment (Altmark) of Von Bredow Brigade-Battle of Rezanville, 1870 |
The Bottom of the Cartridge Pouch, a mortally wounded French infantryman gives his last cartridges, Battle of Rezonville, 1870 |
The Treaty of Frankfurt, 10 May 1871, ceded Alsace and North Lorraine to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 |
French Conscript Number, Vive la Classe |
Conscript's rosette - Gloire aux Conscrits |
Mitrailleuse Gatling machine gun, 1890s, France |
Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph-Albert Deport, designer of the 1897 Canon de 75 |
French Propoganda Posters, late 19th C. |
Musée des Horreurs - The King of Pigs and the Traitor - the Dreyfus Affair, 1894 |
Le Petit Journal - The Traitor, the Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus, 1895 |
Standard of the French 18th Marine Infantry Regiment |
Jardin Zoologique d'Acclimatation Achantis |
Le Petit Journal - La Fidélité de l'Autre France - The Loyalty of the Other France, 1907 |
Le Bon Vivant 25 Nov 1905 - Bon Petit Nègre - "Good Little Negro" - cartoon denunciation of the exploitation of colonized people |
French Colonial Military Uniform, Senegal, ca 1889 |
French Colonial Military Uniform, Sahara ca 1898 |
French Colonial Military Uniform, Africa ca 1907 |
French Colonial Sepoy, Indochine Française, ca 1898 |
Kepi and Tunic of Major Lamy, 1896 |
French-Russian Alliance - United Races, ratified in 1893 |
Tsar Nicolas II in Paris, 1896 |
Sabretache of the Hussars Regiment of Grodno (today Belarus) |
Russian Uniform - Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons of Novorossiysk |
Late 19th C. Russian Uniforms |
1871 Prussian Artillery Officer Helmet - La Belle Alliance - Mit Gott für König und Vaterland |
Border Post - Deutsches Reich |
Big Bertha - 42cm German Mobile Siege Artillery named after Alfred Krupp's daughter, 1914 |
Pour La France Versez Votre Or - Pay Your Gold For France |
Model of World War I Trenches |
14 July 1916 Journée de Paris |
Hotchkiss 37mm Canon, 1917, France |
Maxim Gun, 1908, Germany - the machine gun invested by an American was used by all sides |
Cartoon - Moving the Border Post of the German Empire |
1813 and 1914 Iron Crosses, Germany |
Satiric Propaganda Game - Arrest of the Kronprinz |
The Eagle of Champagne |
Uniform of an Algerian skirmisher, 1914 |
Uniform of American 11th Engineer Regiment, 1917 |
Journée de l'Armée d'Afrique et des Troupes Coloniales |
German poster - Helft uns siegen! Help us win! |
Souvenez-vous les Crimes Allemands - Remember the German Crimes, 1917 |
Polish Army in France Recruiting Center, 1915-1918 |
UK - The Empire Needs Men! Helped by the Young Lions the Old Lion defies his Foes, 1915 |
Iconic American Recruitment Poster - Uncle Sam "I want you for the U.S. Army" 1917 James Montgomery Flagg |
United States Shipping Board - Together We Win, |
Subscribe to the Liberation Fund- Lloyds Bank (France) |
Sword of Honor offered to Marshall Foch by the City of London, 30 July 1919 |
Plaster Model of the Monument to the Dead, Rouen |
Chermins de Fer de l'Est - Verdun convie la France à commemorer sa Victoire |
French Recruitment Poster for African Colonial Troops, 1927 |
Engagez-Vous dans la Cavalerie, French Ministry of War, 1930 |
Exposition Coloniale Internationle - Paris 1931 |
Young Men Volunteer to go to the Colonies, Take Up Service in the Colonial Troops |
Frou demokratie und der falsche bruoder |
Los Nacionales Arriba España - Ministero de Propaganda of Republican Spain, 1936 |
Adolph Hitler - Mein Kampf, volume 1 |
The rise of Nazi Germany |
Nazi Daggers |
Uniform of a Political Officer of the Nazi Party, 1939 |
German Wehrmacht Uniform, World War II |
Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer! Adolph Hilter portrait |
The German Campaign in France and Belgium 10 May - 25 June 1940 |
Bronze statuette of Général Charles de Gaulle |
BBC Radio Studio with Charles de Gaulle's broadcast of 18 June 1940 refusing defeat and calling for a Free France |
I think this is the Vichy government trying to keep control of the French colonies |
N'oubliez pas Oran! - Vichy French propaganda against the British attack on the French fleet at Mars el-Kébir, Algeria |
French Armistice of June 1940 - Red German-Occupied France, Blue-Nazi collaborative Vichy France, Annexation of Alsace-Lorraine |
Vichy Propaganda - Laissez-nous tranquilles! Leave us alone De Gaulle, Jews, Freemasons, Lies |
German Wehrmacht Fedgendarmerie - Military Polic |
Signal - French Editions of the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung |
Der Adler - German and French Editions - Front Against the Soviets, 15 July 1941 |
Populations adandonnées faits confiance au Soldat Allemand - trust in the German Soldier |
Alert aux avions!! Protective Measures against aerial bombardment |
Anti-Jewish Propoganda in France with ID requiremnts for the Jewish population in France |
The infamous yellow star of the holocaust with Jew in French |
Map of the radar coverage in the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain, which was launched mostly from French airfields |
Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union along 3 fronts - the map shows the Third Reich at its largest |
German pistol Lüger P/08 |
German submachine gun MP40 "Schmeisser" |
German V1 "Buzz Bomb" Vergeltungswaffe, an early version of a cruise missile - 9521 were launched against southeast England |
Map of World War II in the Pacific showing the maximum extend of Japanese expansion in May 1942 |
Un seul but la Victoire - One Goal, Victory |
Equipment of a U.S. Soldier in World War II |
War on the Eastern Front - the Battle of Kursk, 1943 |
Model of a Panther, 1943, Germany's answer to the Soviet T34 tank |
Car pennant of General Charles de Gaulle, the flag of Free France |
German Paratrooper, Montecassino 1944; Moroccan solder with the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy |
Banner of the 4th Company of the 4th Regiment of the Tunisian Skirmishers |
The Invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 - Eisenhower/Montgomery vs Rommel/von Rundstedt |
Entre le Marteau et l'Enclume - Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea |
The Battle of Normandy: 6 June - 21 August 1944 |
American Browning M2HB .50 caliber machine gun |
En travaillant en Allemagne tu seras l'ambassadeur de la qualité française, 1943 - French workers to Germany |
Reichsmarschall Göring's personal pennant |
The Destruction of Cologne and the Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine |
Thankfully, Cologne Cathedral survived |
War souvenirs - Hitler Medal - 20 April 1939 - the Führer's 50th Birthday |
War souvenirs - Hitler Medal - 20 April 1939 - the Führer's 50th Birthday |
War souvenirs - Book from the Library of Adolf Hitler |
War souvenirs - Swastika cut from a Nazi flag |
Les Nouvelles du Matin - La Guerre est Finie - The War is Over, 8 May 1945 |
Germany Capitulates to the Allies, 8 May 1945 |
Gun turret of an American bomber |
Map of the American island hopping campaign of the War in the Pacific |
Japanese flag - Buun-Tchokyu - Good Luck Flag 寄せ書き日の丸 |
Sauce Dish - Imperial Japanese Navy |
Frenchmen, you must deliver Indochina from the Japanese Hydra |
Replica of "Little Boy", the Atomic Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima |
The Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 |
The Victims of the Second World War |
Map of postwar Europe after the Yalta Agreement |
Bust of Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
Charles de Gaulle sites at Les Invalides |