Members of the 7th Machine Gun Battalion, 3rd Division, Army of Occupation, are being decorated with the Croix de Guerre. The ceremony is taking place in Bell, Rhine, Germany. The citation is signed by Petain, Marshall of France. This photograph was taken on January 1, 1919.

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