Original Photos - Page 28

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Troops advance over shelled ground during the Chemin-des-Dames offensive.

Chemin des Dames

The timeless feature of soldier life: a NCO leads his squad in foot and arms drill.

Squad drill

1915

Street barricade

German armored turret

A ration party carries food along a trench that cuts through a town.

Trench through town

An incredible combat photo showing French hand grenadiers dashing forward and clearing the ground of enemy.

Grenadier attack

Loopholes are pre-constructed in the rear for installation in the trenches.

Loopholes

Crashed plane

Cagnas in the Argonne

Schneider tank

French officers repose beside stacks of gabions

Gabions

Telephonist at work

A soldier stencils in the names of the dead

Inscribing croix des bois

The general term of Senegalese tirailleurs is used for the indigenous French zouaves, likely Moroccan or Algerian.

Tirailleurs in 1914

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