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A Tribute to Lazy Camp Life

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Description: An ambulance man (presumably Ray E. Williams) sitting on the front fender of an American ambulance.
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Loading an Ambulance

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Description: Medical personnel load a wounded Prussian into an ambulance. Captioned: "A wounded Prussian being loaded in my car for evacuation. He was shot just under h...
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Shell Hole in French House

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Description: A French house in ruins. Captioned: "Julian Bryan, standing in a hole made by a shell. Notice that French houses are constructed for centuries where Amer...
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Bong — Ace of Aces

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Description: Portrait of Major Richard Ira Bong, medal of honor winner from Poplar, Wisconsin. Flying a P-38, Bong shot down more enemy aircraft than any other American...
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Colonel Couillaud

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Three men and a colonel standing outside the entrance to a building after being decorated. Captioned: "Colonel Couillaud, saluting stretcher-bearers, the m...
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Up and Away

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Men standing near a hot air balloon. Hot air balloons were mostly used as spotters for the enemy. Captioned: "The basket in which the observer sits while '...
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Camouflaged French Road

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down road towards two men standing on a French road camouflaged by trees, branches and leaves. Captioned: "A quite well camouflaged French road."
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Frenchman Machine Gun Crew

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Three men standing behind a machine gun. Captioned: "A Hotchkiss machine gun, operated by a 48-year old crew of Frenchman. These men were mobilized."
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No Foreign Uniforms Allowed

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: A foreign soldier walking the streets of Paris, France while smoking a cigarette in his uniform. Captioned: "A costume like this creates no sensation or in...
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Stretcher Bearers Decorated For Bravery

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Three soldiers standing in front of a building while being decorated. Captioned: "Three French stretcher-bearers being decorated for bravery. Vaux Varennes...
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Carrier Pigeons

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: A man is standing near a cage for carrier pigeons camouflaged in the hay. Captioned: "A camouflaged, but homelike, haven for carrier pigeons. They carry me...
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Brancardier, Stretcher-Bearer

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View of a man standing in a trench. Captioned: "A. Rodriguez, Corporal of "brancardier," taken in a Russian trench in the Champagne, near Auberive. Notice ...
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Statue of Jeanne d'Arc

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View of a man standing and posing near the statue of Jeanne d'Arc. Caption reads: "The most famous statue of Jeanne d'Arc, who visited Reims in the height ...
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French Soldier Burial

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across field towards a group of French soldiers. Caption reads: "The funeral procession of a dead French soldier. Whenever possible, a military burial...
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Three Soldier Buddies at Vaux Varennes

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Stretcher-Bearers Carrying an Injured Soldier

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla."
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Ambulance Parked in Front of a Cathedral

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Man and Child Pretending to be Soldiers

Date: 02 01 1919
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. ...
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Cook and his Kitchenette

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Man Standing Near Two Ambulances

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View of a man standing near a small table in front of two ambulances.

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