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A 7/ 18/ 1931 dated post card showing the new finished entry road and the vistor building and the staff care taker building . A nice view of the woods with a lack of trees from the battle even in 1930. The lower photo portion shows the open path at the end of the battle. Where the flag is standing in the above photo. This is a central portion of a 1918 yard long. This at the base of the wooded hill of Belleau Woods. It shows the Hunting Lodge tower on the top. Photo is before the cemetery is located here. Title: As seen on the original yard long photo: "A close up view of the Belleau Woods showing the hard fought ground captured by the American Army in 1918" Fred Schutz Photograph(Washington, D.C.) Date Created/Published: 1918.

It is quite well known that older European weapons were exported for the American Civil war. Here is a period photo of two soldiers with the Prussian 1809 musket,unfortunately cannot see whether this is original flintlock or percussion, but can assume it is percussion, as in the late 1830s remaining guns were converted to percussion, two examples I had were 1840 and 1843.

German soldiers with G98's in a storage rack with the Grabenmagazin, which was a magazine extension or trench magazine that held 20 cartridges, this increased to total amount in the rifle to 25.