Lt. Estep is shown in this photograph taken on September 16, 1918, digging trenches and erecting barbed wire as part of the consolidation of the support line opposite the old Hindenburg line. The high French wire is visible in the image. The location is St. Benoit, France, with the 1st Battalion of the 187th Infantry. The photograph was passed by the censor, though the date of the censoring is unknown.

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