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[Illustration: Of the youngest class.]
[Illustration: A father of the class of '89]
Moulin Laffaux
[Illustration: Un cannonier marin sur le front]
He handles a big naval gun mounted on railroad cars near Soissons
[Illustration: French "corv?e" laborers.]
In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion.
Too old to serve in the active army and so assigned to the more
unromatic, uninteresting but vital work of loading camions, tending
horses, or building and repairing roads back of the lines. It has been
said that the first battle of Verdun was won by the camion service.
This is the kind of man who made that victory possible
[Illustration: A "walking case"]
A "walking case" -- France, August -18
[Illustration: Toul(?) sector days--Waiting for something to happen--]
[Illustration: Un grand bless?]
[Illustration: A Medal for Valor]
[Illustration: A wounded chasseur and "Fritz"...]
A wounded Chasseur and "Fritz" who has the next cot. They get the same
treatment and neither seems to mind the proximity
Meaux
[Illustration: An American ambulance at a poste de secours]
An American ambulance at a poste de secours (first aid station)
Ostel--1917
[Illustration: An old trench in the Argonne near Montfaucon]
[Illustration: The Edge]
THAT QUIET SECTOR
Four hours off--two hours on--
And not a thing to do but think,
And watch the mud and twisted wire
And never let your peepers blink.
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