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| Description: | Dirt stairs through the trench wall. Captioned: "Passages up which troops rush for an attack." |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | An empty battlefield with posts sticking out from an earthworks in the foreground. Plate 37 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on either side of an opening in the earthworks at Allatoona Pass. Mountains are in the distance. Plate 28 |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | View of earthworks at the battlefield at Resacca. Dirt roads cross the field in the distance, leading to a farm and what appears to be a river. Plate 22... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three Confederate soldiers captured during the Battle of Gettysburg. This photograph was taken by Mathew Brady a few days after the battle. ... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the... |
| Date: | 03 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Note on the back: "Defenders dig in. Dien Bien Phu, Indochina: An airport once covered this area where soldiers have dug deep trenches as protection from b... |
| Date: | 08 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Smoke rising from Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. The island, which took a tremendous shelling, can barely be seen ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1944 |
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| Description: | A German warning sign nailed to a tree trunk. Just beyond the sign are dragon's teeth, concrete pyramids put in to stop tanks, on the Siegfried Line, a lin... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle emerges from a captured Japanese pillbox at Buna, New Guinea, (present day Papua New Guinea). The pillbox is built of dirt, logs and foliage. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a military trench near Hecken in the Alsace region of northeastern France. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia. |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are manning an artillery piece in a bunker on the battlefield in South Tyrol. The German caption states "We salute you again Italy" refe... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers post in front of the bunkers on the Italian front in the battle zone around Lavarone in South Tyrol. These are camouflaged artillery posi... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A view of model trenches, built in Berlin by convalescing German soldiers. These were used both for training and for exhibition. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In South Tyrol. An Austrian machine gun detachment firing at the Italian enemy. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Soldiers fortifying an embankment on the southwest battlefront in South Tyrol. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers in a trench line. |
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