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Keystone View Company "Down in a Shell Crater, We Fought Like Kilkeeny Cats"--Battle of Cambrai.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.045 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1917 Pagination: Stereocard Height: 8.5 cm, Width: 17.75 cm Order a Copy

Four German soldiers in a trench at the end of the Battle of Cambrai. In the background is the ruins of a tank, which were used for the first time on a large scale during this battle.

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