Print No. 161113, February 21, 1919 (American soldiers on patrol wearing white capes to reduce the chance of discovery while operating in the snow-blanketed forests which line the Vologda R.R. line on each side. The picture shows the character of the forest in which the American forces live and fight. Left to right Bugler Chas. Metcalf. Co. I. Pvt. Harold Holliday, Co. M. and Sgt. Maj. Ernest Reed, 3rd Bn. 339th Inf. 85" Div. Verst 455 Vologda R.R. Front, Russia.) from the United States Army Signal Corps photograph collection, 1918-1919 [Folder 8, Item 4]

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Print No. 161113, February 21, 1919 (American soldiers on patrol wearing white capes to reduce the chance of discovery while operating in the snow-blanketed forests which line the Vologda R.R. line on each side. The picture shows the character of the forest in which the American forces live and fight. Left to right Bugler Chas. Metcalf. Co. I. Pvt. Harold Holliday, Co. M. and Sgt. Maj. Ernest Reed, 3rd Bn. 339th Inf. 85" Div. Verst 455 Vologda R.R. Front, Russia.) from the United States Army Signal Corps photograph collection, 1918-1919 [Folder 8, Item 4]
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Airplanes.
Death.
Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Military facilities.
Military life.
Packtrains.
Railroads -- Soviet Union.
Reindeer.
Ships.
War casualties.
World War, 1914-1918.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- History
Polar Bear Expedition.
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"Print No. 161113, February 21, 1919 (American soldiers on patrol wearing white capes to reduce the chance of discovery while operating in the snow-blanketed forests which line the Vologda R.R. line on each side. The picture shows the character of the forest in which the American forces live and fight. Left to right Bugler Chas. Metcalf. Co. I. Pvt. Harold Holliday, Co. M. and Sgt. Maj. Ernest Reed, 3rd Bn. 339th Inf. 85" Div. Verst 455 Vologda R.R. Front, Russia.) from the United States Army Signal Corps photograph collection, 1918-1919 [Folder 8, Item 4]." In the digital collection Polar Bear Expedition Digital Materials. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/921010.0008.004. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.

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