AMERICAN RED CROSS POSTCARD - Troops on Parade Paris FRANCE - WW-I - 1918

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AMERICAN  RED CROSS POSTCARD - Troops on Parade Paris FRANCE - WW-I - 1918:  From an Article by Lee Ferran, in InsideHook Newsletter:  "As hundreds of American flags flapped in the summer breeze from balconies overhead, thousands of onlookers packed together, tighter and tighter, spilling onto rooftops and tree branches, waiting.  Then, finally, the first soldiers came into view. The “enthusiasm became uncontrollable” and the people “cheered themselves hoarse as company after company of khaki-clad Americans swung past to the stirring tunes played by a double band,” The New York Times reported at the time. While a similar massive celebration was to follow in New York City on this day one century ago, the wide boulevards these soldiers marched down weren’t in any American city, but in Paris, France, more than 3,500 miles away across the Atlantic…"  This Divided Back Era (1907-15) postcard, showing an Associated Press photograph of this July 4, 1915 event, is in good condition.