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Watching "Hun" Planes - 317th Supply Train - Belleville, Oct 1918

October 1918

Belleville, Grand Est, France, Europe

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Soldiers in uniform watch planes fly. Their backs are to the camera. In the bottom center of the photograph a soldier is sitting on the ground. Miscelaneous supplys are scattered throughout the crowd of soldiers. The Signal Corps USA is in the bottom left corner of photograph. Below and slightly off to the right of this logo is a series of numbers reading [39552]. The words [Watching "Hun" Planes - 317th Supply Train - Belleville, Oct, 1918] are written at the bottom inside the white border.

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Catalog reference: 2015.97.23.1

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