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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I soldiers standing in front and on the back of an International truck with a recruiting poster. |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 29 1918 |
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| Description: | U.S. soldiers standing in a street with military trucks parked along a curb near the McCormick Works. The truck bodies were likely built under military con... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell in full dress uniform. |
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| Description: | Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker, who earned the title "Ace of Aces" for his 27 victories during World War I. In this photograph he is posed against a plane ... |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A visiting French officer instructs novice American pilots at Camp Mineola on the conditions that they can expect to find at the front. |
| Date: | 08 1917 |
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| Description: | A training ascension of a captive observation balloon. During their training, soldiers learned how to correctly estimate the effectiveness of artillery on ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The gondola crew of a World War I observation balloon that is about to ascend. Observation balloons were positioned near the front so that men in the gondo... |
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| Description: | A World War I observation balloon held Gulliver-like by its airship company. During World War I, balloons were positioned near the front so that observers ... |
| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Vernon Castle, half of the glamorous Castle dancing team, enlisted in the British Royal Flying Corps in 1915 and flew over 150 missions at the Western Fron... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Kaiser Wilhelm II with Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, commanders on the World War I western front, planning military strategy. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two Sopwith Camels, somewhere in France. This image is from the photo collection of Alvin Reis of Madison. He made many wartime photos into lantern slides ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b... |
| Date: | 06 07 1930 |
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| Description: | A man and children are standing under the Capitol Theatre marquee that is promoting the movie "Journey's End," with two men dressed as World War I soldier ... |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders. |
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