Private Gibbon, serving in the US military during World War I, took this photograph on December 1918. The image captures a view from Summit Hill 285, located 14 kilometers north of Malancourt in Meuse, France. The photograph shows barbed wire and other artificial obstacles, with the ruined town obscured by fog.

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