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• lewismachinegun
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• wwi
• thegreatwar
• greatwar
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• ww1
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• SDASM Archives 44 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 13 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 6 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 2 photos & illustrations
• Université de Caen Normandie 2 photos & illustrations
• Texas State Archives 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• U.S. National Archives 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• IWM Collections 1 photo / illustration
• The Library of Virginia 1 photo / illustration

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Capt. W.C. Schauffler Jr. [& Lt. F.A. Tillman] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 2 older comments, and then…
• addadada said:

  awesome heroes

• B-59 said:

  William G. Schauffler www.earlyaviators.com/eschauff.htm

• Art Siegel said:

  Caption from Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919): "Capt. W. C. Schauffler, Jr. (standing), and Lieut. Fred A. Tillman in observer's seat of one of Ninetieth Aero Squadron planes. Lieut. Tillman is son of late Senator Tillman. Plane shows insignia of squadron, called " Pair-a-Dice " Squadron. Gun is a double Lewis machine gun. Ninetieth Aero Squadron, Seventy- ninth Division. Bethelainville, Meuse, France. November 18, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n407/mode/2up

• thegreatlandoni said:

  I immediately recognized the plane as a Salmson 2A2 because I built a scale model of one for our museum.

• Art Siegel said:

  This photo reprinted in Illustrated World, May, 1919. books.google.com/books?id=Q58oAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA356&l...

Liggett, Hunter

from SDASM Archives

• Richard Norton said:

  Hunter Liggett (March 21, 1857– December 30, 1935) was a lieutenant general of the United States Army. His forty-two years of service spanned the period from the Indian campaigns to trench warfare. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Liggett

Machine gun in front line trench (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• jamica1 said:

  Did anyone not smoke?

• Art Siegel said:

  uncropped version rom the IWM site:
  "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION
  Men of the 6th Battalion, the York and Lancaster Regiment at a Lewis gun post, on the front line near Cambrin, 6 February 1918.
  
  McLellan, David (Second Lieutenant) (Photographer)"
  
  
  THE BRITISH ARMY ON THE WESTERN FRONT, 1914-1918© IWM (Q 8460)

• Jan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks Art Siegel, we'll add this information to the record.