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Destroyed Bridge in the Carpathian Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers standing by a downed railroad bridge in the Carpathian Mountains. The bridge was blown up by the retreating Russians in the vicinity of t...
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Austrian Supply Column

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian troops and supply wagons resting in the vicinity of the Uzsok Pass.
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Turkish Column at Rest in the Taurus Mountains

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Description: Turkish column resting in the Taurus Mountains on the way to the front.
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On the Southwestern Battlefront

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Description: Both good and bad luck at the same time. While driving passed an artillery shell damaged section of a mountain road, a heavily loaded supply truck slid off...
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Hotels in Riva

Date: 1915
Description: City of Riva in September 1915. This photograph suffices to convince the unbelieving that even in this part of the battlefront Italian successes are not pr...
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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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Spanish Rider

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Description: Blocking a road with Spanish Rider obstacles on the southwestern 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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Lake Garda

Date: 1916
Description: 1916 "summer guests" on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
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Tiroler Standschützen in Battle

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Description: Soldiers of a rifle guild fighting from large boulder.
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Firing at Patrol

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen firing at an approaching patrol.
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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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The Spirit of Andreas Hofer

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen firing from atop a cliff against the hated Welschen.
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Tiroler Standschützen at Rest

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Description: Soldiers resting in a village in the middle of the mountains on a break from the front.
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Fortress Pigeons

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Description: Fortress homing pigeons being released.
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Glacier Fortress Position

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Description: Fortified position on a glacier at high altitude, on the Tirolian-Italian front.
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Lookouts in the Mountains

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Description: Lookouts standing guard in a 3500 meter high fort on the glacier on the Italian-Tirolian front.

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