Passendale

Soldiers of an Allied machine gun company sit in crater holes of the devastated landscape around Ypres, Belgium. The Third Battle of Ypres, an Allied offensive, began in July 1917 and continued until November, when the Allies captured the Passendale Ridge. The battle, a struggle in the mud of Belgium, caused some 250,000 casulaties on both sides.

Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

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World War I; Ypres, Battle of

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