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| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A non-exploded bomb is resting on the ground, over which three timbers have been placed. A sign reading "Obus Non Eclate" is on a post next to the bomb, an... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Freshly dug graves and piles of dirt at Vaux Varannes. Caption reads: "Graves for prospective 'guests' at Vaux Varennes." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of three soldiers are standing in front of a tent and posing for a portrait. Caption reads: "Vaux Varennes. Shorty More, our artist, Shorty Samuels... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | School children gathered around a American. Caption reads: "Sammy Lloyd, Cornell instructor in botany, with a group of merry villagers. We were the first A... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A horse ambulance parked on a road near buildings. Caption reads: "A horse ambulance frequently used to carry wounded from batteries to "poste de secours" ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man standing and leaning against his ambulance, posing in front of a cathedral. Caption reads: "Reims. A close view of the entrance to the ca... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two men standing in front of a large group of ambulances parked in the snow. Caption reads: "An early morning scene at Jubécourt. The drivers slept in thei... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and child posing in front of an ambulance. Caption reads: "Robineau Cook, as a French marine, and a 'petit goss' as an ambulance driver. ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near camouflaged telephone headquarters. Caption reads: "Not a rocky cliff at all but a neatly camouflaged telephone headquarters on the r... |
| Date: | 02 1919 |
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| Description: | View of the front of the damaged Cathedral and the sculpture of Jeanne d'Arc in the front. Caption reads: "Reims. The front of the cathedral is scarcely da... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man posing at the open back door of his kitchenette, which is on the back of a truck. Caption reads: "Andre Gaillard, our 'bon cook' in the r... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing by a camouflaged gun base. Caption reads: "Famous French "75." Notice the empty shell, the loaded shells leaning against the sand-bag... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A trench dedicated to Prince Eitel of Prussia who was the son of Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a village in France that has been totally destroyed by the war. Caption reads: "The utter ruin and desolation of a typical bombarded villa... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Several men standing near two ambulances which are parked near ruins. Caption reads: "The "Château," probably the most celebrated A.A.F.S poste. The entire... |
| Date: | 02 02 1919 |
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| Description: | A rundown underground trench/passageway for soldiers to move from one side of the field to the other without being exposed to enemy fire. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Four men posing with a large gun on the deck of a ship. Caption reads: "140 m/m gun on stern of French liner 'Rochambeau' on which I returned to America. (... |
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