Signal Corps Lieutenant Richards W. Sears took this photograph on December 19, 1918. It captures Sergeant Peters of the 305th Field Signal Engineer, 80th Division testing a newly built communication line in the town of Sommerance, Ardennes, France. In the foreground, there is the body of a dead German soldier. The image was approved by the censor on December 24, 1918.

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Photo credit: © piemags/NSC / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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