[Dashing Dasher]

Wow!
Thanks for posting...

[HereInTheHeartland]

An awesome view into the past, thanks.

[Unam Sanctam]

How unusual to see in living color.

[keats5]

That was an amazing war. Apparently, according to the photos, the men never got their uniforms dirty.

[Tamar1973]

Seeing color photos from nearly 100 years ago is way to surreal, almost creepy.

However, maybe these photos should be published asap in France as a reminder of how good and decent their countrymen used to be and to show them the rapidity of their descent into moral decay and political irrelevance.

[wideminded]

Is the guy in picture #30 taking a leak?

[wideminded]

Is the guy in this picture taking a leak, or is something else going on here?

[Soaring Feather]

WOW fabulous!



Thanks for the ping!

Ping to Sarge.

[IamConservative]

Here, Here! Post of the year for me.

A lesson to be learned.

WWII history lives in the descendants of of our Senior generation and we discuss it often.

WWI history by in large only lives in the history books and died with the previous generation.

How soon we forget.

[Paulus Invictus]

Those are truly stunning photos and they should be sent to the Eastman Museum of Photography in Rochester, NY! I have seen a lot of color pics, but never any from this early period and of such excellent quality. Where did they come from? Thanks!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Military Ping!

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Alas, the page has apparently been taken down now. Link results in a 404.

[AnAmericanMother]

Awesome.

Note the presence of Soudanese colonial troops.

Another website shows the Algerians. The French Army was by no means lily-white.

[beaversmom]

My great uncle died in France during WWI--he was only 22. When I was little, I used to think the world was in black in white in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. These photos are very interesting. Didn't know they had color way back then. Thanks for sharing.

[Nowhere Man]

Thanks for the link and post, I knew they had color pics in World War II but didn't know theyh ad it as far back as World War I. I also remember seeing on the History Channel, "World War I in Color" and I was scratching my head at the color motion pictures. I thought maybe they used computers to colorize the film much like they do with pictures from space probes. My father was a photographer and I currently work in a drugstore developing pictures so I do have an interest in photography.

[Tribune7]

neat

[arasina]

Fascinating photos! This one reminds me of one of the more artistic 9/11 Ground Zero photos. (I couldn't find the actual one for a side-by-side comparison.) The images tell the same story of destruction no matter when they were photographed.

[YummiBox]

What happened to the photos? Can't seem to pull any up.

[chilepepper]

Fabulous! Thanks a bunch...

[Phsstpok]

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

---

The first two stanzas are often cited by anti-war types, but the last stanza is clearly a call to duty, to shoulder the burden that those who have given their all died for, so that they will not have died in vain.

Michael Moore, John Kerry, Teddy Kennedy and the rest spit on all of these people, as well as those that died to stop Hitler, and those that died to end slavery. They are the ones who make such horrors possible. THEY are the enemy.