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[Photograph 2012.201.B1349.0892]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The memory of the scene above was in the mind of Adolf Hitler Friday as he laid drastic peace terms before the French nation. It shows French leaders leaving the railway car in the Compiegne forest on Nov. 11, 1918, after they had dictated peace terms to his beaten neighbor Friday. Gen. Maxime Weygand, present commander-in -chief of French armies, is second from the left, Marshal Foch fourth from left."
Date: 1940
Creator: Associated Press
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0790]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Scene on deck of a coast guard-manned LCI boat, before she rolled her shell-torn hull and sank off the coast of France, between the furled stretchers and the barrels which shows bullet bashes lies the body of a dead American soldier, while the wounded x can be seen in the companionway."
Date: August 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0798]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The crew of this fatally hit coast guard LCI craft has just vacuated troops and wounded to an assault transport and pulled away from the coast."
Date: August 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0799]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "With a heavy list to a port, this coast guard LCI craft pulls alongside a transport to evacuate her troops and wounded, just before she capsized and x sank during first invasion day."
Date: August 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0800]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Landing on the coast of France under heavy Nazi machine gun fire are these American soldiers, shown just as they left the ramp of a coast Guard landing boat."
Date: July 6, 1944
Creator: Coast Guard Photo
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0931.0502]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Milada Mladova, formerly of Oklahoma City and known then as Annabelle Mraz, ballet dancer with Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo."
Date: November 27, 1938
Creator: Joffe, S.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma's Air Ace: William T. Ponder and World War I

Description: This article chronicles William T. Ponder's training and testing in battle against the backdrop of World War I aviation history. Ponder served with the French Aviation Service as part of the Lafayette Flying Corps and the U.S. Air Service where he became Oklahoma's first aviation war hero.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Moore, Bill
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1333.0469]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "U. S. Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe criticized international air fares Thursday as too high and too rigid, and called on airlines to pass on to travelers the big savings offered by the new jumbo jets. Pan American and TWA were quick to challenge the new secretary, however."
Date: March 25, 1969
Creator: New York Times Service
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1387.0348]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Defending world and U.S. figure skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi of Fremont, Calif., has a serious look on her face as she leaves a practice session early Saturday morning in Albertville, France, Friday, rival skater Midori Ito of Japan told reporters she would win the gold, setting up a showdown in the womans singles competition which begins next week."
Date: February 8, 1992
Creator: Nighswander, Marcy
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1349.0896]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "German delegates at Versailles listening to M. Clemenceau's speech in the Trianon Palace Hotel, at which the Peace Treaty was handed them, to be followed by the formal close of the World war."
Date: unknown
Creator: Pathe News
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0788]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Canadian Defense Minister James L. Ralston troops paid a high cost for information gained at theat occupied French post August 19."
Date: 1942
Creator: Snarr, Kenneth
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1351.0796]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "American troops waded through the surf to the Normandy shore from their landing craft on June 6,1944, as the Allies landed in France to open the final phase of World War II."
Date: June 6, 1944
Creator: United States. Army.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1435.0433]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Major General William S. Rombough, Chief signal officer, ETO, USA, presents certificate of merit award to Maj. Ansel J. Challener, OKC, in ceremony in Paris, France."
Date: July 24, 1945
Creator: United States. Army.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1316.0421]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "TRAVEL POSTERS give notice of the places Miss Patty Tullius hopes to see when she leaves Thursday for France, where she will attend the University of Grenoble for a year."
Date: 1964
Creator: Wood, Tony
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0962]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Four U. S. Governors listen to Jean Cherioux, center, vice president of the Paris city council, during a visit to the Town Hall in Paris Friday."
Date: May 15, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0104.0170]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Luther H. Brannon, Agricultural Extension Specialist, Food and Agriculture Division, ECA/OSR, is seen against a backdrop of the Place de la Concorde, with the obelisque and the Eiffel Tower in far background."
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0775]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "When Etchika Choureau flew to Hollywood to play the French girl in "with You in My Arms" opposite Tab Hunter our paths unfortunately didn't cross."
Date: August 1, 1957
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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