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Americans Transporting German Prisoners of War by Motor Trucks in the Chateau-Thierry Sector – Historic Reproduction

Americans Transporting German Prisoners of War by Motor Trucks in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, c1929 Aug. 5. — historic photograph
Americans Transporting German Prisoners of War by Motor Trucks in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, c1929 Aug. 5.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: Americans Transporting German Prisoners of War by Motor Trucks in the Chateau-Thierry Sector, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Few images in this set show the American role in the war's final months as plainly as this one, which records German prisoners being carried by motor truck in the Château-Thierry sector of northern France. Fighting around Château-Thierry in the summer of 1918, including the Second Battle of the Marne, drew American units into some of their first major engagements, and captured German soldiers were moved through the rear areas in growing numbers. The card was issued by the Keystone View Company, a large American maker of stereographs, and its c1929 date appears to reflect when the card was published rather than when the scene was photographed.

Created / publishedc1929 Aug. 5.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsJO2585 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 19298. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Army, US--Transport.; War prisoners--1918; WWI--France; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 770 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132866

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