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Keystone View Company America's Most Notable Gathering of Military Heroes-Left to Right, Jacques (Belgium), Diaz (Italy), Coolidge, Foch (France), Pershing, end, Beatty (England), at His Right

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.295 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: Kansas City, Missouri Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

In this photograph many military hereos of WWI are gathered at the American Legion in 1921.

Jacques de Dixmude, Alphonse, 1858-1928
Diaz, Armando, 1861-1928
Beatty, David, 1st Earl of Beatty, 1871-1936
Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
Albert I, King of the Belgians, 1875-1934
Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

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