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American 155 mm artillery cooperating with the 29th Div. in position on road just taken from the Germans. Battery A 324th artillery, 158th Brigade in France Signal Corps
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Photograph shows American soldiers from the 324th Field Artillery Regiment or the 158th Field Artillery Brigade around a camouflaged 155 mm howitzer with shells nearby, one soldier stands in front of the cannon holding a tool in the barrel, assisting the 29th Infantry Division, in Cote de Roche, near Samogneux, Meuse, France during World War I.
Caption from Catalogue of Official A.E.F. Photographs, 1919: "26202 [1901T8]. American 155-mm. Artillery cooperating with the Twenty-ninth Division, in position on road just taken from the Germans. Battery A, Three hundred and twenty-fourth Artillery, One hundred and fifty-eighth Brigade. Cote de Roche, near Samogneux, Meuse, France. October 10, 1918. "
U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph.
No. 26224.
Caption inscribed in pencil on verso.
Forms part of: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., April - Nov. 2017.
During the administrations of Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover, the National Photo Company supplied photographs of current news events in Washington, D.C., as a daily service to its subscribers. It also prepared sets of pictures on popular subjects and undertook special photographic assignments for local businesses and government agencies. The bulk of the images were created between 1909 and 1932. The photographic files of the National Photo Company, including an estimated 80,000 images (photographic prints and corresponding glass negatives), were acquired by the Library from its proprietor Herbert E. French in 1947.
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