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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers installing barbed wire as a defense against Bolshevik forces. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An eight-man blockhouse fortification in the snow, with a built-up wall of logs surrounding it. Soldiers inside the fortification are looking out of some o... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A dugout under construction, showing the timber frame and planks of wood over the top. On the left of the dugout is a large pile of timbers covered with sn... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A large log blockhouse fortification at Verst 581. This fortification was constructed when the 310th United States Army Engineer Corps was deployed as a pa... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A large concrete blockhouse fortification at Verst 581 with a concrete outhouse next to it on the right. An armed solder wearing winter clothing stands be... |
| 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: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log constructed blockhouse for machine gun emplacement surrounded by trees. In front of the fortification are four men posed standing. They are possibly ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a blockhouse constructed out of logs and camouflaged by attaching pine tree branches on and around the fortification. This particular fort... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of dugout machine gun emplacement. There is a solider standing outside on the left, while another man sits inside. The fortification appears ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over slashed timber towards the edge of the defenses, with camouflaged blockhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men stand behind a heavily camouflaged machine gun emplacement in a forested area. On the far right a uniformed solider is sitting up in a tree. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Blockhouse fortification under construction in a forested area. There are two uniformed soldiers standing on the right. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed soldiers in the process of constructing Blockhouse No. 8 with logs and earth. The area appears to overlook a ravine. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Looking up at Blockhouse No. 4 while under construction. Trees around the constructions site are being used to provide camouflage. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Interior of blockhouse No. 2 looking out, showing use of timbers to reinforce the fortification's construction. There is a partial image of a soldier stand... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking up hill towards Blockhouse No. 1 that is constructed from timbers and earth. The fortification appears to be partially constructed into the to... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four soldiers standing around a bomb-poof shelter, which received four direct hits from Bolshevik artillery without any damage. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two British soldiers in a mortar station of a trench. One soldier is sitting on top of stack of wooden boxes that contain mortar rounds, while the other is... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two British soldiers posing in a trench. The soldier on the right is manning an air-cooled Vickers light machine gun, and the soldier on the left is holdin... |
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