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| Description: | A French trench. Captioned: "Notice the workmanship on this French trench - and imagine the water in the springtime." |
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| Description: | Dirt stairs through the trench wall. Captioned: "Passages up which troops rush for an attack." |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat. |
| Date: | 07 17 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,... |
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| Description: | Barbed wire training under Lt. Johnson. An unusual nighttime photograph from the Victor Morris album, at Camp Custer. |
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| Description: | A man demonstrating trench shooting in a fortified ditch at Camp Lewis, built in 1917. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men observe an early airplane at Camp Bowie, established in 1917. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the trenches near the front line at St. Thomas. Captioned: "Front line at St. Thomas, near Sainte Menehould." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View down center of road towards bunkers and trees. Captioned: "Route 44, a national road, hundreds of years old. It is too close to the Boche to be used i... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Damaged roof and walls of a french bakery on a hill. Captioned: "'Le Four de Paris' (Oven of Paris), the quaint old bakery, after which this part of the Ar... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon illustration of six long lines of men marching into a factory. Poster text reads: "Success in War — depends on co-operation and ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier with his gear, adjusting his helmet while standing behind sandbags. On his belt is a gas mask. Poster text re... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of two Marines corpsmen at a beach fort. One Marine is raising a U.S. flag while the other Marine is saluting. In the back... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a military trench near Hecken in the Alsace region of northeastern France. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are preparing sandbags for the building bunkers and trenches in Serbia. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia. |
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