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English: Original caption cropped out: "A 10-inch rifle". This is a US Army Coast Artillery Corps 10-inch gun, either M1888 or M1895, on a disappearing carriage M1896.

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Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Barbed Wire Entanglements Failed to Stop Our Boys in the Great Drive. Americans Are Here Seen Going Through German Wire.
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A 10-inch ritlc. 458 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK June 12—French advance in region of BelleauWood and St. Maur. Germans clear Allied forces from west bank of Oise.French are driven south as far as Tracy-le-Val. —United States troops complete seizure of BelleauWood. —Final figures for eighth German War Loan (in-cluding army subscriptions) places total at $3,750,-000,000. —London announces that German advance has prac-tically ceased. Germans claim to have taken sincebeginning of the drive on June 9, 15,000 prisoners,150 guns; they launch attack from Courcelles tonorth of Mery, between the Aisne and Forest ofVillersCotterets. Germans take villages of Laver-sine; are repulsed at most other points. Frenchdrive Germans back across the Metz and recaptureMelicocq. British aerial squadron bombs station atTreves and factories and stations at Dillingen.Swedish steamship Dora (1,555 tons) sunk, losing9 of her crew. —Gen. March, United States Chief of Staff, announcesmore than 800,000 United Sta

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