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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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Palm Trees

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Description: In a battle zone under the palms.
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Observing the Enemy

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Description: Observing enemy activity from the plateau of Lavarone. The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
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Lavarone Plateau

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Description: On the battlefield of the Lavarone plateau. Supplies for construction of a continuous belt of wire obstacles. The plateau of Lavarone was located along th...
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Cavern of the Lavarone Plateau

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Description: Cavern built into the mountain on the Lavarone plateau. The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
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On Guard on Lake Duerer

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Description: Even the calm surface of the Duerersee (Lake Duerer) must be watched steadily to ensure that there are no enemy surprises from this area.
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Lake Molveno Machine Gun Nest

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Description: Concrete machinegun nest on the Molvenosee (Lake Molveno).
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Sunday Mass

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Description: Sunday mass for Tiroler Standschützen at the front.

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