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Huge Armored Tank Making Its Way Through a Smoke Screen
This photograph is of a tank in a field with trees and smoke surrounding it. Tanks proved to be very powerful weapns.
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How France Aided Her Fighters- Renault Tanks Going to the Front
This photograph is of tanks and soldiers marching. The tank was very efficient machinery.
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French "Tanks" Which Saw Service, Parading Paris Streets
This photograph is of a man inside a tank on a parade in Paris, France. The photograph says that tanks were nicknamed "the caterpillar" because of their movements.
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Marshall Joffre, Vivani, Chocheprar and Fabry- French War Commission- With Gov. Lowden and State Officials at Tomb of Lincoln, Springfield, ILL.
Many men in uniform are gathered around Lincoln's tomb. There is an American flag.
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For Five Hours New York's Citizen Army Poured by Reviewing Stand, Twenty Men Abreast
This photograph is of a parade of men who were drafted for WWI. The public was very excitied to go to war, and there were parades all across New York City.
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Looking Over Soldiers' Quarters- General Hospital in Distance, Camp Upton, N.Y
There are trees and buildings in the distance of this photograph. It is of Camp Upton, which, according to the photograph, is where many men trained before leaving to fight in WWI.
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Barracks at Camp Devens, Boys on Hillside Writing Letters, Ayer, Mass.
A scene at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. In the background, there are barracks. In the foreground, soldiers sit on a hillside writing letters.
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Sunshine Keeps Our Soldiers Healthy. Daily Sunning of Equipment.
Soldiers sit on benches in a line at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia. The sun basks upon the men and their equipment, which is being sunned to avoid the spreading of disease.
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Pack Inspection of 139th Regiment Infantry. American Army Camp, U. S. A.
American soldiers stand at attention in rows. Their army kits are laid out in front of them, ready for inspection.
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The Heart of the Nation -- Every Mother's Son Ready to Do His Duty, Calisthenics in the Army.
At a military camp, lines of soldiers in a field do calisthenics in unison.
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