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Mess 317 Supply Train - Belleville Meuse, Oct 12, 1918

October 12, 1918

Belleville, Lorraine, France, Europe

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Source catalog description

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

This photograph depicts the 317th Supply Train at mess. The soldiers are standing in two lines around self-serve food tables. A soldier is sitting on the ground in the bottom left corner of the photograph. A truck and pavillion are in the background in the top left corner and a row trees is in the top right corner. The Signal Corps USA logo is in the bottome left corner of the photograph. The number [39550] is written next to the logo. The words [Mess 317 Supply Train - Belleville Meuse, Oct 12, 1918] are written at the bottom inside the white border.

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Catalog reference: 2015.97.23.15

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