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Keystone View Company German Battery of 150 mm. Guns, Captured by American Troops near Montfaucon.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.240 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

Two American soldiers stand with a captured German howitzer gun on a grassy hill.

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