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"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919

"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919

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Loading coal!
In my little shimmy-shirt,
Eyes and mouth full up with dirt—
(In the next war I'll be living at the Pole.)
(K.P.)

Built for speed...

Built for speed
and with light pack to match
R.B.—Belleau Wood
1918
A Marine


"Steady, buddy!"

"Steady, buddy!"
Baldridge
Paris 1919


Never too far gone for a smoke

Never too far gone for a smoke

But he wears the Legion of Honor and the "Croix de Guerre"


In an abri...

In an abri waiting for the "Gothas" (big German planes) to go home


The veteran of the Spanish-American war...

The veteran of the Spanish-American war tells 'em how it ought to be done


R. Lufbery

R. Lufbery—Sketched at the Lafayette Escadrille field near Longpont as the aviator was getting into his "union suit" preparatory to flying in a Chemin-des-Dames engagement


Base port stevedores

Base port stevedores—Volunteers from the South who work eight hours a day for seven days a week
Bordeaux/18


A 26th Division Wagon Train...

A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood—1918
Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war


The end of his service

The end of his service


Veterans of the Marne

Veterans of the Marne

POILU

When we left the transport
Back in St. Nazaire,
Second thing you asked us,—
"Quand finit la guerre?"
Didn't know your lingo
You weren't hard to get,
Peace was what you wanted—
And a cigarette.
Then up in the trenches
It was just the same,
"When's it going to finish?"
Didn't seem quite game.
Then we saw you strafing,
Saw we had you wrong,
Wondered how you stood it
Four years long.
Drank your sour pinard,
Shared what smokes we had,
Got to know you better,
Found you weren't so bad,
Four years in the trenches!
(One's enough, I'll say)
How the hell'd you do it
On five sous a day?

Chemin des Dames '17

Chemin des Dames '17


American being taught...

American being taught by Frenchman to drive truck so that the latter may return to his farm.
France/17


Moving up

Moving up—
over a corduroy road hastily laid down by a gérre (engineer) regiment in war-wasted land. The piece of wall on the right is all that remains of a French village of five hundred inhabitants


Arabian Knight

(Arabic script) Arabian Knight

(Arabic script) Between drives he works on the railroad

(Arabic script) On other days he rides a camel in Algeria


Senegalaise types

Senegalaise types / voluneers used for the attack and for labor on roads Vailly 1917


The aumônier

The aumônier—poilu priest who marches with the troops.

Of the youngest class

A father of the class of '89

Moulin Laffaux


Un cannonier marin sur le front

Un cannonier marin sur le front

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