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Caption from Catalogue of official A.E.F. photographs (1919): "30553. Mrs. Mary Palmer Gardner, of Hackenack, Mass., and Miss Anna A. Ryan, of Northampton, Mass., Mrs. Gardner is in charge of the women personnel of Red Cross canteens and Miss Ryan is the director of the Souilly hospital canteen. This view was taken in front of the Souilly American Red Cross canteen. Evacuation Hospitals No. 6 and No, 7. Souilly, Meuse, France. October 14, 1918. " archive.org/stream/cu31924027944598#page/n339/mode/2up

Thanks for looking up the caption Art Siegel, we'll add it to the catalog record.

awesome heroes

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

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

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

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

Dinant is a Walloon city and municipality located on the River Meuse in the Belgian province of Namur, Belgium. [...] The city suffered devastation again at the beginning of the First World War. On 23 August, 674 inhabitants were summarily executed by Saxon troops of the German Army — the biggest massacre committed by the Germans in 1914. Within a month, some five thousand Belgian and French civilians were killed by the Germans at numerous similar occasions. Among the wounded was Lieut. Charles de Gaulle. From the LOC P&P photochrom collection:

Another Bain photo from Dinant: