"Factual caption: Pvt. Shaw from the Signal Corps is shown cutting high tension light wires at the top of a pole next to burning barracks. The photograph was taken on Oct. 30, 1918, at 1st Army Headquarters in Souilly, Meuse, France. The image was passed by the censor, although the exact date is unknown."

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