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Keystone View Company Some of Our Two Million Fighters Ready for Home, Brest, France

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.279 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

Soldiers are in line, ready to be sent home. There are storefronts and flags waving in the background. According to the photograph, sending men home was a very complicated, yet organized, system.

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