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Amiens (French pronunciation: [amjɛ̃]) is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km (75 mi) north of Paris and 100 km (62 mi) south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in Picardy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiens The Battle of Amiens (also known as the Third Battle of Picardy (French: 3ème Bataille de Picardie)), which began on 8 August 1918, was the opening phase of the Allied offensive later known as the Hundred Days Offensive that ultimately led to the end of the First World War. Allied forces advanced over seven miles on the first day, one of the greatest advances of the war, with Henry Rawlinson's British Fourth Army playing the decisive role. The battle is also notable for its effects on both sides' morale and the large number of surrendering German forces. This led Erich Ludendorff to describe the first day of the battle as "the black day of the German Army." Amiens was one of the first major battles involving armoured warfare and marked the end of trench warfare on the Western Front; fighting becoming mobile once again until the armistice was signed on 11 November 1918. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)

"English" not "Engl."

Nice

We'll fix the typo in the title. Thanks!

Pete (LOC P&P) title still not fixed!

Well, you can see the airmen posing by their warplanes, and you can see the bombers flying in formation, and you can see them dodging the flak to get to the target, but only photos such as this one make you realize what warfare does to us. Enormous losses of capital investments take place in the blink of an eye. Where do you even begin sorting out a ruin like this one?

That's the question I was going to ask, "How do you recover from this tangled mess?"

Lined up for chow. Some things don't change much!

Probably 1912 given the Bain number system in reverse on right hand side.

Made a copy, enlarged the poststamp on the right upper corner, darkened and constrasted it and found 2/24/11 in mirror view (Fegruary 24, 1911?) Dr. Roberto Duarte Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Duarte: Thanks for the detective work on the date of this photograph. Those stickers are the hardest ones to read! We will add the date to the record.

The Washington Times on March 7th, 1911 (Chronicling America) chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1911-03-07/ed-... infomed that American army was rushed to Mexican Border On February 24, 1911, were the soldiers in Galveston, waiting orders to rush to the Mexican Border?

www.gendisasters.com/data1/pa/trains/easton-trainwreck-fe...

Thanks for the link -- I was just thinking 'I should Google this and find out what happened!' [PS I love your Klatu icon!]

From NY Times, April 13, 1911 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B0DE7DB1431E233A... EASTON, Penn., April 29. -- A train, carrying 169 school teachers, friends, and relatives, bound from Utica, Syracuse, and Waterville, N.Y., to Washington, was hurled down a forty-foot embankment at Martin's Creek, N.J., nine miles north of this place, about 3 o'clock this afternoon.

The train was carrying 169 teachers -- the title should read "teachers' train" rather than "teacher's train" this would appear to be the 1911 wreck and not the 1907one.

Easton, Pennsylvania Train Wreck February 12, 1907 JUMPS TRACK ON BRIDGE Black Diamond Express Comes Near Going Into River. Passengers Thrown Into Panic and Expected Death, but Only Received Slight Injuries. Easton, Pa., Feb. 12- An iron girder extending above the track this afternoon saved at least two cars of the Lehigh Valley's west-bound Black Diamond express from going over the side of the Delaware bridge and into the river, seventy feet below. The train was composed of a cafe\car, a day coach, a sleeper and observation car. It entered the bridge at a high rate of speed, and was just beginning to increase the speed, when the two last cars were derailed in a manner that seems to mystify railroad men. The first of the derailed cars ran along the ties of a distance of about twenty-five yards. The other swerved to the right and ran to the very edge of the bridge, Another inch, and it would have fallen on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and rolled down an embankment into the river. The passengers were thrown into a panic and expected to be carried down to death every minute. The women shrieked and the men ran toward the doors. Some were prevented from jumping out. A number were slightly injured by broke glass. Those who needed medical attention: H. SEATON, Bethlehem, Pa., hand cut by jumping through a door. CHARLES COZSINS, Alletown,[sic] cut about the head. MISS M. E. COLAMAU, Athena, Pa., hand cut. Negro porter, back wrench. All the injured continued their journey. The Washington Post, Washington, DC 13