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This is a Committee on Public Information photo, No. 7748. From the Committee's catalog: "7748 AMERICAN CAPTORS Two of the Americans who were with a patrol of 5 who killed 2 Germans, captured 2 and brought in 2 wounded of an enemy patrol of 10 men. The pistol was taken from one of the dead Germans." Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides United States. Committee on Public Information. Division of pictures March 1 to June 1, 1918 books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lp...

Thanks Art Siegel for the details about the American soldiers in this World War I image. We will add more information when we update the description.

More details from "Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs", Published 1919 "7748 One hundred and sixty-seventh Regiment Infantry, (formerly Fourth Regiment Infantry, Alabama National Guard), Second Battalion, Company F, Corpl. Howard Thompson holding pistol of German whom Sergt. James H. White killed in no man's land with butt of his pistol. This occasion being one where a patrol of 5 men met 10 Germans in no man's land on March 7, 1918. Corpl. Thompson went into no man's land in daytime and found pistol of the dead German. Ancerviller, France, March 11, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n161/mode/2up

Thanks Art Siegel: Great to have this soldier and his regiment identified! We will add more details when we update.

This aircraft is a US Army Air Service (USAAS) Fokker D.VII, likely one of among well-over 100 of the type surrendered/given to the United States by Germany, pursuant to the 1918 Armistice. Given the "Winged 1" insignia, it belongs to the 1st Aero Squadron, which was based at Mitchel Field on Long Island from 1919 to 1940. Various online sources suggest the Fokker is being put through a loop over Long Island by distinguished aviator Lt. Eugene Hoy Barksdale (1896-1926). Unfortunately, I've yet to discover sufficient information to confirm the location and pilot.

TVL1970 Thank you for the aircraft and squadron identification—we'll add both to the record.

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A very similar photo ran in The sun., May 04, 1919, Section 5 Pictorial Review, Image 52 with the caption: "A scene on the deck of the U-111 at the Navy Yard. The craft is one of the captured submarines brought here to aid the Liberty Loan. Note the size of the gun which the undersea terror carries." chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-05-04/ed-...

SM U-3 or U-III was the lead boat of the U-3 class of submarines or U-boats built for and operated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy (German: Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine or K.u.K. Kriegsmarine) before and during the First World War. The submarine was built as part of a plan to evaluate foreign submarine designs, and was built by Germaniawerft of Kiel, Germany.