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Souvenirs de l'armée américaine en France / Souvenir of the American Army in France

Chapter 1: Au lecteur
By Jean Berne-Bellecour
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The collection offers a visual and textual record of Allied troop experiences in France during wartime, combining sketches, captions, and brief reminiscences that show frontline life: trenches under bombardment, no-man's-land, tanks and artillery in major engagements, captured enemy soldiers at work, and moments of camaraderie between French and American soldiers. Scenes alternate between action — assaults, searches of battlefields, and prisoners — and quieter human details such as card games beneath shellfire and sentries on watch, producing an episodic portrait of combat conditions, daily routines, and the interactions between allied forces.

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Title: Souvenirs de l'armée américaine en France

Author: Jean Berne-Bellecour

Release date: November 21, 2013 [eBook #44244]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: French

Credits: Produced by Claudine Corbasson (This file was produced
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nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)

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Au lecteur

A Monsieur le Président Raymond Poincaré
En Respectueux hommage.

J. Berne Bellecour.
1919

... and it was not a dream!...

His calvary
For the salvation of the world

Two friends
French poilu and American officer

The "yanks" in front of Fismes

Tanks in the battle (Champagne)

German prisonner at work

The no man's land

Someone always on the look out

All that can be seen of the front line trenches
during the enemy bombardment

American troops on the battlefied
(Ville-en-Tardenois)

Battle of the Marne

Some types of American soldiers

Playing to cards under the shells

Searching the German dead after the capture of a trench

Capture of a German minenwerfer

German dead lying in the barbed wire
before the American front

Brothers in arms
French dragon and American officer

French gun in action
(front of Champagne)

Under the shells
(Verdun)

German prisoners

German prisoners at Souilly

Au lecteur

Cette version électronique reproduit dans son intégralité la version originale à l'exception de la couverture (montage).