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Airplane View of Trenches and Shell Holes
1914
Keystone View Company
This photograph is an aerial view of the trenches during WWI. It shoes how extensive they were. There is also a view of the destruction of the trenches.
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Zeppelin Wrecked and Burned- Ruins Being Inspected by Frenc Troops
There are soldiers obversing wreckage from a zeppelin attack, and there is destruction in the background.
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"Enemy Airmen Successfully Bombed One of Our Supply Trains," Official Report
There are many dead horses and turned over wagons in this photograph. There is a thicket behind them. This area was bombed and destroyed, leaving behing death and destruction.
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U.S. Observation Airplane on West Front- France
This photograph is of a field with an airplane in it. There are a few buildings in the background. The invention of the airplane was of great importance during the war.
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A double-seated "Fighter" Equipped with Bomb-dropping Device, Ready to Go Aloft.
1914-1918
A soldier inspects the side of a double-seated, bomb-dropping fighter plane while an officer and his dog look on.
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Lieut. LeMaitre. French Aviation Forces, Explaining "Nieuport" Airplane, Fortress Monroe, Va.
French Lieutenant LeMaitre explains the functioning of a German Nieuport airplane to a fellow soldier at Fort Monroe in Virginia. Many European aviators went to the United States to help train American pilots.
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The Eyes of the Army -- View of German Town from American Airplane.
An aerial view from an American airplane of a German town with a railroad winding through it. There is a piece of machinery from the plane slightly obstructing the view.
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Bridgnet Michelin Bombarding Airplane Ready to Ascend, France.
Side view of a French Michelin bombarding plane about to ascend. There is a pilot in the cockpit, and several soldiers are seen pushing the lower part of the wing forward.
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French "75" Gun in Action against Battle Planes.
A six-man crew mans a "75" artillery gun in a forest while a soldier on the side takes a photograph.
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Body of a German Aviator in His Wrecked Machine Back of the French Lines.
A dead German aviator lies upside down amongst the wreckage of his plane. On the right side, there are troops of French soldiers.
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Observation Balloon Fatally Pierced by Incendiary Bullets from American Plane.
A view from the ground of a German observation balloon exploding after receiving fire from an American warplane. The silhouette of a passenger basket can be seen hanging from the bottom of the balloon.
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Attaching Observation Balloon to Winch for Towing into Position, Army of Occupation, Weissenburg, Germany.
American troops attach an observation balloon to its winch and prepare it to take off in a field in Weissenburg, Germany.
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Through the Uncharted Heavens She Blazed the Trail --- Dirigible R-34 at Minneola.
A view of a Dirigible R-34 at Roosevelt Field in Mineola, NY. Lines of troops are visible underneath the airship. In the foreground, two soldiers stand in a field with their weapons over their shoulders.
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"Through sickly shrapnel-sown meadows reaped by death alone."
A view of a deep trench and a sheet extending down over what is likely a hideaway for soldiers. On the ground above the trench, two soliders lay dead or dying. Another soldier crouches next to one of the bodies, tending to him.
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Watching "the Crimson Chorus of the Guns" Playing to the Enemy.
In the foreground, we see the backs of two soldiers' heads as they look out over a hill. Clouds from artillery fire rise in the background.
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Shells Bursting in Ruined French Village
A field in France, alongside a dirt road. Off in the distance smoke billows on the horizon.
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Huge Shell Hole beside a Highway, France
Smoke billows from a large crater made by an exploding shell, covering the road and forest behind it.
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Monument in Memory of Canadians Who Fell at Vimy in April, 1917
1917
A monument, with a cross mounted on the roof, to the Canadian forces who fell recapturing the Vimy Ridge from the Germans, a charge largely led by the Canadian Corps.
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Boyish Germany Prisoners at a Dressing Station, Longpont
1917-1918
A young German soldier, taken prisoner of war, sits on a rock beside a Red Cross worker. In the background are a few other soldiers and a medical attendant.
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German Prisoners, Under Guard of French Soldiers, Were Humanely Treated by the Allies
A crowd of German prisoners of war sit or lie on the ground. Two French soldiers stand watch in the back.
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"And Now We Lie in Flanders' Fields." Vallee Foulon, France.
A military cemetery, for fallen soldiers in World War I, in the mountains of Northern France.
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Camp of French Artillerymen Enjoying Well-earned Rest from Trench Warfare
At a military camp, French artillery soldiers sleeping and relaxing in front of a row of tents.
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French Reserves Watching Their Comrades Going Into "The Valley of the Shadow"
French soldiers stand in front of a desolate field, watching their fellow soldiers march to the front.
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His Last Fight--"See he lies, death staring from his eyes"--Somewhere in France.
A dead soldier, his nationality is unable to identify as his helmet is missing and his uniform obscured by rubble, lies at the bottom of a trench.
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French Mine Explosion under Enemy Trenches
A soldier looks across a desolate field at smoke billowing from an exploding German trench.
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