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Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919) "22798. Soldier wringing out his clothes aided by French peasant woman. Lucy, France. August 16, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n263/mode/1up

Thank you Art Siegel. we will add the date and more details when we update the description.

In front of the Château Sous-Bois www.senior-assist.be/fr/loc/chateau-sous-bois-fr goo.gl/maps/88UwhVtvq3P2 At the end of the war, the German headquarters were in Spa, Belgium. Sous-Bois was the residence of Field Marshal Hindenburg, s. 'Spa im Ersten Weltkrieg (1914-1918): Lazarett und Grosses Hauptquartier ...' by Irene Strenge, p. 126 books.google.com/books?id=CX8MZQ0sMLYC&pg=PA126&r...

www.flickr.com/photos/66311327@N05/31245853305/ After the war, Sous-Bois was the home of the American section of the international armistice commission, s. The Seattle star., January 24, 1919, Page 2, col. 5 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1919-01-24/ed-...

"Charles Dudley Rhodes (February 10, 1865 – January 24, 1948) was a United States Army Major General. He was a prominent commander of cavalry units from the Indian Wars through World War I, and was a lecturer and author." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dudley_Rhodes His grave in Arlington: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13395355

Major General Charles D. Rhodes was the American High Commissioner on the Permanent International Armistice Commission, s. caption of photo in 'The American Legion Monthly', Volume 7, No. 5 (November 1929), p. 10 (the corresponding paper 'The Story of the Armistice' is written by Rhodes) archive.org/stream/americanlegionmo75amer#page/10/mode/2up/ A photo of the villa is on page 8 archive.org/stream/americanlegionmo75amer#page/8/mode/2up/

"The Four Minute Men were a nation wide organization of public speakers under Government control during the period of America's participation in the World War Although the idea and early plans for the Four Minute Men originated in Chicago in the early part of April 1917 the work officially became a division of the Committee on Public Information on June 16 1917 when the national headquarters were removed to Washington The national organization and all its branches ended official existence on December 241 1918 Between these dates the Four Minute Men of America numbering about 75,000 speakers throughout 37 speaking campaigns delivered over 750,000 speeches to audiences totalling 315,000,000 persons The speeches were delivered almost exclusively in the motion picture theatres of the country during four minute intermissions The work was organized in 7,448 cities and towns including every State in the Union." books.google.com/books?id=SvQ-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA43&lp...