قراءة كتاب "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
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"I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919
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Built for speed
and with light pack to match
R.B.—Belleau Wood
1918
A Marine
"Steady, buddy!"
Baldridge
Paris 1919
Never too far gone for a smoke
But he wears the Legion of Honor and the "Croix de Guerre"
In an abri waiting for the "Gothas" (big German planes) to go home
The veteran of the Spanish-American war tells 'em how it ought to be done
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—Volunteers from the South who work eight hours a day for seven days a week
Bordeaux/18
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
Veterans of the Marne
POILU
Chemin des Dames '17
American being taught by Frenchman to drive truck so that the latter may return to his farm.
France/17
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
(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 / voluneers used for the attack and for labor on roads Vailly 1917
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
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