Built for speed / and with light pack to match R.B.--Belleau Wood / 1918 / A Marine [Illustration: "Steady, buddy!"] "Steady, buddy!" Baldridge Paris 1919 [Illustration: Never too far gone for a smoke] [Illustration: But he wears the Legion of Honor and the "Croix de Guerre"] [Illustration: In an abri...] In an abri waiting for the "Gothas" (big German planes) to go home [Illustration: The veteran of the Spanish-American war...] The veteran of the Spanish-American war tells 'em how it ought to be done [Illustration: R. Lufbery] R. Lufbery Sketched at the Lafayette Escadrille field near Longpont as the aviator was getting into his "union suit" preparatory to flying in a Chemin-des-Dames engagement [Illustration: Base port Stevedores] Base port stevedores--Volunteers from the South who work eight hours a day for seven days a week--Bordeaux/18 [Illustration: A 26th Division Wagon Train...] A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood--1918 Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war [Illustration: The end of his service] [Illustration: Veterans of the Marne] POILU When we left the transport Back in St. Nazaire, Second thing you asked us,-- "Quand finit la guerre?" Didn't know your lingo You weren't hard to get, Peace was what you wanted-- And a cigarette. Then up in the trenches It was just the same, "When's it going to finish?" Didn't seem quite game. Then we saw you strafing, Saw we had you wrong, Wondered how you stood it Four years long. Drank your sour pinard, Shared what smokes we had, Got to know you better, Found you weren't so bad, Four years in the trenches! (One's enough, I'll say) How the hell'd you do it On five sous a day? [Illustration: Chemin des Dames '17] [Illustration: American being taught...] American being taught by Frenchman to drive truck so that the latter may return to his farm. France/17 [Illustration: Moving up] Moving up-- over a corduroy road hastily laid down by a gérre (engineer) regiment in war-wasted land. The piece of wall on the right is all that remains of a French village of five hundred inhabitants [Illustration: [Arabic script] Arabian Knight] [Illustration: [Arabic script] Between drives he works on the railroad] [Illustration: [Arabic script] On other days he rides a camel in Algeria] [Illustration: (head in fez)] [Illustration: [Arabic script] Senegalais types] Senegalaise types / voluneers used for the attack and for labor on roads Vailly 1917 [Illustration: The aumônier--poilu priest who marches with the troops.] [Illustration: Of the youngest class.] [Illustration: A father of the class of '89] Moulin Laffaux [Illustration: Un cannonier marin sur le front] He handles a big naval gun mounted on railroad cars near Soissons [Illustration: French "corvée" laborers.] In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion.