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Army Medical Corps Anniversary

Date: 1957
Description: Army Signal Service Corps cuts cake to honor its 40th birthday. The corps consisted of about 4,100 members of whom 300 to 400 are pharmacists in commission...
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Liberators and the Liberated

Date: 02 1945
Description: GIs from the U.S. 76th Infantry Division make friends with two Yugoslav soldiers and a Russian woman who were freed from a German prison camp during World ...
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GI Eating Rations

Date: 02 1945
Description: A GI of the United States 76th Infantry Division dines on K rations outside a German pillbox.
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Rescue Squad

Date: 11 1944
Description: A cordon of GI's work together in water to move a submerged jeep to the beach of Leyte Island.
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Allied Soldiers

Date: 1916
Description: Allied soldiers gathered near an entrance to an unknown establishment. A sign in French above the entrance is not legible, but there is an image of a crick...
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Trench Warfare

Date: 1917
Description: Soldiers with their weapons in a trench.
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Man and Horse Wearing Gas Masks

Date: 10 27 1918
Description: Original caption reads, "Showing contrast in mask used for man and horse. The fact that horse never breathes thru his mouth makes a gas mask a simple objec...
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Carrier Pigeon with Message

Date: 11 05 1918
Description: A soldier in uniform holds a pigeon with a message on its leg at the 4th Corps Pigeon Loft, Essey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
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Military Homing Pigeons

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man's arm and hand holding a military homing pigeon. A sign on the cage in the background reads: "Military Homing Pigeons. These ar...
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Man Holding Homing Pigeon

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man holding a military homing pigeon in on hand, and a rolled up piece of paper in the other. There is a group of pigeons inside a ...
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Trench Near Hecken

Date: 1915
Description: View of a military trench near Hecken in the Alsace region of northeastern France.
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Bombed Street in Fismes, France

Date: 1918
Description: Street in Fismes, France destroyed during the Battle of Fismes. The badly damaged town hall can be seen near the center, with rubble from other buildings i...
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General Pershing Talking with Major General Haan

Date: 07 1918
Description: General John Pershing and Major General William George Haan are standing outdoors talking with French Colonel Laucagne.
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Machine-gunners in Trench

Date: 1917
Description: Two soldiers wearing combat uniforms and holding machine guns are in a trench with barbed wire in the background. The men are in a combat zone in France.
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Troops on Transport Arriving in France

Date: 1918
Description: View looking up towards men of the 32nd Division aboard the steamship Leviathan arriving at Brest, France.
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Downed German Plane

Date: 10 04 1918
Description: German plane shot down between Montfaucon and Cierges, France.
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Road Behind the Yankee Line

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of the road behind the U.S. line of advance into Saint-Mihiel, jammed with troops and supplies.
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Sergeant Killigrow with French Children

Date: 11 04 1918
Description: Sgt. J.W. Killigrow, 311th Ambulance Co., 78th Division, socializing with French children who remained in Authe during the German occupation.
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Lt. Harry Humphreys Entertaining Soldiers

Date: 10 08 1918
Description: Lieutenant Harry Humphreys, A.R.C. entertaining wounded men in Ward K of American Evacuation Hospital #114, Fleury-sur-Aire, France. Miss Grace Van Wormer,...
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Farmhouse Used for Military Housing

Date: 1918
Description: U.S. soldiers are standing in front of a stone farmhouse used for military housing in France. A pond with geese is in the foreground, and a horse is standi...

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