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Keystone View Company Tangled Ruins of Marne Bridge Blown Up by Germans and Red Cross Train Wreck.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.020 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

The battered remains of the Marne Bridge and railroad, including a wrecked Red Cross train. The Germans deployed this explosion to destroy as much as possible in the wake of their retreat.

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