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Description: | image: A small central image, rectangular (signed in the block lower right), shows the advance of American troops and
tanks viewed from the rear, advancing across French countryside towards a burning hamlet (centre) by a river to the right. The main feature
of the foreground is a light tank (French) advancing into composition left to right and firing. Accompanying it in line across the
foreground are five advancing Americans, the centre figure reeling back with arms outstretched, having been shot. Smoke from the burning
village forms a large grey-pink cloud which dominates the whole. Beneath the central cartouche there is set a lozenge of type (see below)
which sits upon an assemblage of Allied flags (Italy, France, Great Britain & USA), two small siege mortars with ammunition, a drum, a
French dragoon helmet, a kepi and a bugle placed centrally and decorated with laurel. To the left and the right of the whole stand a French
and American soldier respectively. The French soldier is dressed in the red kepi, blue greatcoat and red trousers of 1914. He holds with
both hands the muzzle of his rifle with fixed bayonet. His American counterpart of 1918 is dressed in regulation khaki, tin helmet and
gaiters. Likewise he stands holding the muzzle of his rifle with both hands.
text: Honour and Glory to those who saved the Liberty of the World. Heroic soldiers in 'pantalon rouge' who in 1914 triumphed on the sacred
banks of the Marne, you will be immortalised in the legend of the bravest of the brave. And you, young soldiers of a great America, will
enter history with imperishable honour, having renewed these glorious exploits by the side of the French in 1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | US.A 01/3(496.1) Weapons Death memorial Action Military Personnel FR.A flag / banner / standard military vehicles Uniforms | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Librarie Grasset, Paris | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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