All of these images in their time were censored.
On 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo was assassinated and the murder of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian student Gavrilo Princip, a member of a secret organization “Mlada Bosna”, and that was the immediate reason for the outbreak of the First world war – one of the most widespread armed conflict in human history.
We present a selection of photographs during the First world war made on the battlefields and training camps of the United States and its allies. All of these images in their time were censored to avoid causing a defeatist mood among the population and not to give secrets to the enemy side.
1. This soldier was killed in combat, during a training exercise. The considered demoralizing and banned for publication.
2. Pictured is the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson. In a moment after the photographer took the picture from under the stone, made of papier-mache, came out soldiers. The forbidden to print, believing that he can give the enemy a new method of masking.
3. Black American soldiers, received flowers from French women for their help in the liberation of France. The banned.
4. The dead soldiers before burial, a photograph, of course, banned.
5. A rare shot — the explosion of the dirigible (similar to the German Zeppelin).
6. The soldiers drowned during training.
7. House, destroyed by the retreating Germans.
8. American soldiers killed in combat.
9. A secret prototype of the English bomber.
10. Drinking after taking enemy positions by American soldiers. The photograph was censored, because the official alcohol was banned.
11. Skeletons before burial.
12. Soldiers gassed during a training exercise.
13. This photo was forbidden to print, not to disclose to the enemy the secrets of unarmed combat.
14. Sleeping soldiers is very similar to the dead, this picture is also banned.
15. Due to the lack of weapons training and sometimes used a wooden mock-UPS. The were not allowed to print to prevent the use of enemy propaganda.
16. Test old cuirasses for suitability in modern combat. Metal shell coped with the task, but in print the image is still not allowed.
17. Set grenades to the test. Some of them have long been used in combat, and some were new and secret developments.
18. In early 1917, the growth of prices for bread and basic products led to a wave of “bread riots” in new York. This the in print, of course, were not included.
19. The woman with images that tried to pass secrets to the German side, encrypting the message in the lace apron.
20. American soldiers having fun with a troupe of ballet dancers. The was banned as too frivolous.
21. New Zealand soldiers sailing through the Panama canal. This trip was secret and in print the was not allowed.
22. New guns against submarines, secret development.
23. The grave of Quentin Roosevelt, brother of President Theodore Roosevelt (in office — 1901 — 1909). Quentin was killed in aerial combat on July 14, 1918
