A photograph taken on March 1, 1919, showing Pvt. Gibbon of the Signal Corps. The image is a panorama taken from the brow of a hill in Bois de la Grande Montagne, located approximately 2 kilometers west of Waville, Meuse, in France. The view is looking east-northeast towards the village of Etraye, with abandoned buildings of a German encampment captured on November 8, 1918, in the center. This area was part of the final phase of the Argonne-Meuse Offensive carried out by the 2nd French Colonial Corps and the 79th Division of the 3rd Army Corps, 1st Army, USA.

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