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This photo is in www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/rus-czech... with the caption: "Heavily armed Czech troops who had fought in the Czar's army against the Germans, find themselves stranded inside Soviet Russia wanting to get out. Amid the Russian civil war, the Czechs took a train and began a 6,000-mile cross-country journey toward the port of Vladivostok in eastern Russia. Along the way, they clashed with Bolsheviks and became entangled in the civil war." See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Legion

Probably this photo, renumbered, in the Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919). There are a number of pictures in the catalog of Czechs and box cars, but the reference to camouflage (the trees tied to the side of the car), indicates this one: "75872, Czech armored train. In this manner the Czech camouflaged their train and captured many stations from the Bolsheviki, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n581/mode/2up

Probably this photo, renumbered from 75081, in the Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919) "75435. Russian soldiers grouped around a fire. These fires are essential tor very often the temperature reaches 49 degrees below zero. 1918." archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n577/mode/2up

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Pershing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_of_Bavaria,_Queen_of_Belgium en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_I_of_Belgium

"BELGIAN ROYALTIES GUESTS OF PERSHING; General Entertains King and Queen at Chaumont and They Review Troops. CHAUMONT, France, March 20.-- King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium arrived here last night for a visit to General Pershing at his chateau." New York Times, March 22, 1919 query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9506E5DB1331E4...

I noticed a few days ago, that the Library of Congress recently put Pershing diaries from this period online. According to the finding aid findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMferDsc04.xq?_id=l... The diaries include one set of typed, single-spaced entries for 1917-1925, and a second set, extracted from the first and double-spaced in carbon, of entries covering only the World War I period, 1917-1919. See www.wdl.org/en/item/17907/view/1/26/ for March 20 (in the presentation as part of the World Digital Library). [From Set 1.] Set 2 starts each day on a new page. Here is March 20 from that set in the presentation as reached from the finding aid (which offers other views): www.loc.gov/resource/mss35949.00307/?sp=40

Thank you to Richard Norton, Art Siegel, and Swanq, for directing us more specifically to the event and location!