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1914-1918
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Shells Bursting in Ruined French Village
A field in France, alongside a dirt road. Off in the distance smoke billows on the horizon.
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1914
Ripped and Battered to Death by the Enemy- a Derelict tank, Cambrai
This photograph is of a tank that has been destroyed by battle. The shells that struck it were powerful enough to rip through the large machine.
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Huge Tanks Crossing the Somme
This photograph is of men surrounding a tank. There is rubble on the ground and a fence and houses in the background. Tanks were new to many soldiers and could do serious damage.
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Poilus Peparing Barbed Wire for Front Line -- Lempire, Meuse, France.
French soldiers weave steel to create barbed wire coils, which will be transported to troops at the battles of Verdun and Meuse-Argonne.
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A Village Reduced to Debris near Verdun, France.
A view of the ruins of completely destroyed buildings in a village outside of Verdun, France.
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Ruins of Once Magnificent Reims, France.
A landscape of destroyed buildings and bare frames of houses in Reims, France.
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Once Fair Village of Coucy, near Reims, France.
Crumbling walls and stones that used to be buildings form a scene of total destruction in the village of Coucy, near Reims, in France.
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1917-1918
Human Wreckage in No Man's Land, Chemin des Dames, France.
The skeleton of a British soldier lies on the site of the battle at Chemin des Dames in France
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1917
"Down in a Shell Crater, We Fought Like Kilkeeny Cats"--Battle of Cambrai.
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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Steel-helmeted Scots Entrenched and Cheerily Awaiting a Counterattack
A line of Scottish soldiers man a trench waiting for battle.
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