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The plane is a Nieuport 28 wearing the "hat in the ring" emblem of the 94th Aero Squadron. The 94th were training in their new Nieuports in France in Spring 1918.

"Ⓒ C.P.I." is interesting CPI refers to the Committee on Public Information, an "independent" US agency during WWI established to drum up support at home for the war in Europe.

Number 14 in color -

Thanks Seuss., we'll add that info to the catalog record.
The CPI probably distributed the photo to news photo companies like Bain for them to distribute to newspaper and magazines.

Description from Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides , March 1 to June 1, 1918 " 4181 SATURDAY NIGHT IN FRANCE The Army scrub as undergone by our boys in France" Catalogue of Photographs and Stereopticon Slides United States Committee on Public Information. Division of pictures U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918 books.google.com/books?id=DYxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA25&lp... French government archive dates picture as 3/19/18,, with caption: "Une méthode pour se laver loin d'être habituelle" [An unusual method for washing] www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memsmn_fr?ACTION=RETRO...

From "Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs", Published 1919 "4181 The Bath, Fifth Marines, St. Nazaire, France." archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n153/mode/2up

Thanks Art Siegel. we will add the location and other details to the description.

A number of sites caption this "American troops cross the river Moselle and move into Germany. " pictureshistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/american-us-soldiers...

NARA 111-SC-50569. Taken December 1, 1918. "WITH THE AMERICANS ON THE MARCH TO THE RHINE. 18th Infantry crossing the Moselle River. The town in the background is Gravenmacher, in the Grand Dutchy of Luxembourg." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grevenmacher Source: (catalog.archives.gov/id/86706914)