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US Soldiers on the Western Front

US Soldiers on the Western Front
The United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917. Soldiers were dispatched to the Western Front. Here, US troops are entrenched in the Meuse Valley, not far from Verdun, on land from which German forces had withdrawn.
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