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Keystone View Company French "Tanks" Which Saw Service, Parading Paris Streets

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.180 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: Paris, France Type: Stereocard Date: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

This photograph is of a man inside a tank on a parade in Paris, France. The photograph says that tanks were nicknamed "the caterpillar" because of their movements.

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