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| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Prototype of a G-9 Caterpillar tank during a demonstration for members of the United States Army at the Los Angeles River. Two men stand on the left. |
| Date: | 11 05 1918 |
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| Description: | A soldier in uniform holds a pigeon with a message on its leg at the 4th Corps Pigeon Loft, Essey, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Screens prevent hostile balloons from viewing a French road. Captioned: "A very successfully camouflaged French road. The screens across the road are to pr... |
| Date: | 02 18 1919 |
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| Description: | A memorial to those who died with honor. Caption reads: "A common sight in the wake of the battle of the Marne." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of a woman standing in front of her vineyard. Caption reads: "A chic French Heart-breaker, snapped posing in her vineyard. Near Vaux Varen... |
| Date: | 02 02 1919 |
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| Description: | A rundown underground trench/passageway for soldiers to move from one side of the field to the other without being exposed to enemy fire. |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a well-camouflaged military weapon. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two companies of tanks attached to the 32nd Division (Red Arrow Division) on a dirt road approaching Juvigny, France. Some of the men are riding horses. |
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| Description: | German soldier kneeling on the ground at a mass grave site to say a prayer in honor of his fallen comrades. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Austrian officers are overseeing the building of a wall on the front. On the left side of the wall, soldiers are standing knee-deep in the water, construct... |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ... |
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| Description: | Turkish officer etching his name into a cactus leaf as a remembrance. |
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| Description: | Soldiers and children cleaning up rubble. |
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| Description: | Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids. |
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