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Keystone View Company "Enemy Airmen Successfully Bombed One of Our Supply Trains," Official Report

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.151 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

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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