Accession Number

NAM.2000-01-65

Description

Inventory description: Six British propaganda leaflets carried over the German Lines by unmanned balloons in 1918; collected by William Eeles, Army Service Corps, who inflated and released the carrying balloons: one shows some of the 1,000,000 American troops now in Europe; two show German plutocrats at play while disabled soldiers are ignored; one shows Prussian freedom threatened by German Socialism; one reports the Allied success in Palestine and the Balkans, 10 Oct 1918; one in the form of a map shows British advances on the Western Front, 8 Aug - 20 Aug 1918.