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In Bukowina On Patrol

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Description: Austrian soldiers on patrol in Bukowina.
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Defending a Bridge

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Description: Defending the Pruth River bridge.
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Keeping Watch

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Description: Keeping a close watch on the enemy.
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Trench Line

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Description: Austrian soldiers in a snowy trench.
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Snow Covered Trench

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Description: Soldiers hunkering down in a trench on a cold winter morning.
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Pruth River Defense

Date: 1915
Description: Defense of the Pruth River bridge near Sanda Gora in Bukowina.
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Pruth River Defense

Date: 1915
Description: Defense of the Pruth River bridge near Sanda Gora in Bukowina.
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420 mm Mortar Pit Filled with Water

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Description: View of a pit that formerly held a firing position for a 420 mm mortar. The pit was later filled with water so that spies would not be able to photograph a...
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420 mm Mortar Pit Filled with Water

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Description: Pit that formerly held a firing position for a 420 mm mortar. The pit was later filled with water so that spies would not be able to photograph and locate ...
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Firing Line

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Bosnian Soldier and Obstacle

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Description: Bosnian soldier in front of a barbed wire obstacle, known as a Spanish Rider, on the southern battlefront.
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Major General Ignatz Verdross

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Description: Major General Ignatz Verdross, leaning on an unexploded Italian shell, is surrounded by his officers on the southern battlefront.
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Cable Car System

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Description: Cable car system for bringing up supplies and munitions on the battlefront in Tirol.
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Town on Lake Caldonazzo

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Description: Guarding the embankment of Caldonazzo on the Tirolian battlefront.
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The Highest Battlefield in Europe

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Description: Austrian Alpine soldiers passing through barbed wire entanglements on the highest battlefield in Europe — 3400 meters.
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Battle in Snow

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Description: Elevation 3400 meter. In battle against both men and nature. Ski patrol ambushing and shooting at an enemy patrol.
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Tirolian Battlefront

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Description: A narrow passage on the Tirolian battlefront.
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Troops at Rest

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Description: Troops resting on the southwestern battlefront in front of a column with the inscription: "1898" and "Acouedottu Di Riva."
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Tiroler Landesschuetzen

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Description: Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) passing through a barricade in the mountains in preparation for a nighttime patrol...
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Soldiers Fortifying a Battleground

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Description: Soliders are fortifying the banks of a river with barbed wire.

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