Thiaucourt, St. Mihiel Salient, France, 1918 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Thiaucourt, St. Mihiel Salient, France, 1918, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Thiaucourt, in the St. Mihiel Salient, which fell before American onslaught, Sept. 12-13, 1918
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Thiaucourt, St. Mihiel Salient, France, 1918
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Thiaucourt, a small town in Lorraine south of Metz, sat on the Woëvre plain, where German troops had held positions since the first months of the war in 1914. By the summer of 1918 it lay within the St. Mihiel salient, a bulge in the Allied lines that the Germans had occupied for four years. In mid-September 1918 the American First Army, fighting alongside French divisions, attacked the salient in its first major operation as an independent American command, and Thiaucourt fell to the advancing troops within days. The fighting left the town and its surrounding fields heavily shelled, and the damage recorded here shows the cost of that brief campaign. For residents who had lived under occupation for years, the battle meant liberation and the end of a front line that had run through their farmland.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schutz group photographers (washington, d.c.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,264 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Thiaucourt, in the St. Mihiel Salient, which fell before American onslaught, Sept. 12-13, 1918 |
| Reference | FRANCE Thiaucourt, St. Mihiel Salient, 1918 |
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