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4 images with subject World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns & battles--France--Argonne.

  • A FAMILIAR NIGHT SCENE TO THE ONES WHO WERE OVER THERE Just like a Fourth of July celebration. Star shells bursting to signal the artillery, flares to light up No-Man's Land, and the boom, boom of cannon, which sounded like huge fire crackers. Slow, but sure, we moved on through the Argonne. From Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War).


  • Search Lights at work in the Argonne, trying to locate the enemy plane. From Tar-Heel War Record (In the Great World War).


  • A snugly hidden, well-camouflaged battery position on the Woëvre sector. From History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division.


  • STRUGGLING ON THROUGH THE ARGONNE Every man who served in the regiment will have many pictures like this in his mind--trucks, caissons, fourgons and "slat wagons" struggling along through the mud and long, straggling lines of engineer and pioneer infantry lads carrying German shell baskets full of rocks and dumping them into the mud-holes. From History of the 113th Field Artillery 30th Division.