stnazaire

This is CPI photo 4177, at French Gov't. CPI photo archive with date of 3-24-18, and caption: "Jour de visite dans un camp américain. Les problèmes de langage disparaissent vite, à l'aide de sourires et autres gestes d'affection." [visiting day in an American camp. Language problems disappear quickly, with smiles and other gestures of affection] www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

Art Siegel: Thanks. We will add the full caption next time we update.

From "Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs", Published 1919 "4177. Visitors in Camp. Fifth Marines, St. Nazaire, France." archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n153/mode/2up

Thanks Art Siegel: We will add the location and other details to the description.

Description from Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides , March 1 to June 1, 1918 " 4181 SATURDAY NIGHT IN FRANCE The Army scrub as undergone by our boys in France" Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides United States Committee on Public Information. Division of pictures U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lp... French government archive dates picture as 3/19/18,, with caption: "Une méthode pour se laver loin d'être habituelle" [An unusual method for washing] www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

From "Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs", Published 1919 "4181 The Bath, Fifth Marines, St. Nazaire, France." archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n153/mode/2up

Thanks Art Siegel. we will add the location and other details to the description.