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A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood--1918
Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war
[Illustration: The end of his service]
[Illustration: Veterans of the Marne]
POILU
When we left the transport
Back in St. Nazaire,
Second thing you asked us,--
"Quand finit la guerre?"
Didn't know your lingo
You weren't hard to get,
Peace was what you wanted--
And a cigarette.
Then up in the trenches
It was just the same,
"When's it going to finish?"
Didn't seem quite game.
Then we saw you strafing,
Saw we had you wrong,
Wondered how you stood it
Four years long.
Drank your sour pinard,
Shared what smokes we had,
Got to know you better,
Found you weren't so bad,
Four years in the trenches!
(One's enough, I'll say)
How the hell'd you do it
On five sous a day?
[Illustration: Chemin des Dames '17]
[Illustration: American being taught...]
American being taught by Frenchman to drive truck so that the latter may
return to his farm.
France/17
[Illustration: Moving up]
Moving up--
over a corduroy road hastily laid down by a g?rre (engineer) regiment in
war-wasted land. The piece of wall on the right is all that remains of
a French village of five hundred inhabitants
[Illustration: [Arabic script] Arabian Knight]
[Illustration: [Arabic script] Between drives he works on the railroad]
[Illustration: [Arabic script] On other days he rides a camel in Algeria]
[Illustration: (head in fez)]
[Illustration: [Arabic script] Senegalais types]
Senegalaise types / voluneers used for the attack and for labor on roads
Vailly 1917
[Illustration: The aum?nier--poilu priest who marches with the troops.
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