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Keystone View Company Tatoi Trenches in the Croisettes Wood Showing Officers in Consultation Just Half an Hour Before the Attack on the Somme Line.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.083 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1916 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

A group of officers discusses military plans shortly before carrying out the first attack of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.

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