The Two World Wars Gallery

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