Private N. V. Bell from South Carolina operates a Stokes Trench Mortar in a view captured on October 16, 1918. The photo shows the firing of the mortar as part of the Chemical Warfare Service in Chaumont, Hte. Marne, France. This image has passed the A. E. P. censor and is cataloged as 29501.

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