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ON THE BATTLEFIELD

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Aisne

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In an American camp in the Aisne district.

American troops in their camp in the Aisne district, France

between 1917 and 1920

 Photographer : International Film Service

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Birdseye view of a battlefield on the Somme front

Photograph shows a battlefield on the Somme front in France during World War I, with French troops moving through trenches and shell craters into an area formerly held by the German army.

Caption on verso states

"This remarkable photograph was made by a French aviator from a height of 590 feet."

1917 January 19

photo by Central News Photo Service

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Somme

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Fismes

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Group of French soldiers resting on roadside near Fismes

April 1917

Photographer: M. Cordoza

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Marne

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Shelters on Marne

November 1917 

Photographer: French Official.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Montsec

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Young MP at the cross roads at Younville, France

9-15-18

NARA111-SC-23373-ac

Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111

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Messines

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German observation post destroyed

Photograph shows a destroyed German observation post outside Oosttaverne Wood, Belgium

on June 11, 1917, during the Battle of Messines during World War I.

The British officer in the foreground is holding a German map board.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website)

1917 June 11

Bain News Service, publisher

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Street scene in Chappy, France, showing ARC tents at the right.

Also old German signboard in the foreground

Oct. 1918

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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Lahayville

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 View showing concrete reetting and the rock and concrete fire step in a German front Line.

Lahayville, Meuse, France

Signal Corps.

1918 Oct. 17

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Saint Mihiel

Former German camp between St. Mihiel & Apremont remodeled by American engineers

Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer

ca 1918

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Apremont

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Haucourt

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German pill box taken during the advance of the Seventy-ninth Division,

Haucourt, Meuse, France

1918 Oct. 22.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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La Panne

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The shelter for the babies of the Creche put up and supported by the American Red Cross

at La Panne, Belgium.

Fifty babies from the danger zone were cared for in the Creche.

They slept in this sand-bagged shelter, and often had to be taken there through the day also,

when the place was shelled by the Germans from the sea

November 1918

Photographer: Guerin.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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A wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire

Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer

1918

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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A German ammunition dump in the St. Mihiel sector

Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer

1918

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

Saint Mihiel

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Austrians in captured Russian Trench, Galicia

Photograph shows Austrian soldiers in a trench in Galicia (Eastern Europe) during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

1915 June 29

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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