Keystone View Company French Troops Crossing the Marne by Pontoon Bridge

GLC09584.025

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GLC#
GLC09584.025-View header record
Type
Images
Date
1914
Author/Creator
Keystone View Company
Title
French Troops Crossing the Marne by Pontoon Bridge
Place Written
France
Pagination
Stereocard Height: 8.5 cm, Width: 17.75 cm
Primary time period
Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
Sub-Era
World War I

French troops after their victory at the first battle of the Marne following the retreating Germans across a pontoon bridge, made by laying a series of floating barges, as the permanent bridge had been destroyed. Several onlookers watch from the near bank of the river.

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