WW1 - The Western Front
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Nearly four years of deadly stalemate on the Western Front slowly came to an end in 1918, as Allied armies pushed into Germany at enormous cost, leading the Central Powers to finally seek an armistice.
German soldiers (rear) offer to surrender to French troops, seen from a listening post in a trench at Massiges, northeastern France.
A French soldier aiming an anti-aircraft machine gun from a trench at Perthes les Hurlus, eastern France.
Near Ripent (Champagne). Beginning of construction of defensive measures in a newly-occupied mine crater by German soldiers.
Two Englishmen killed by gas near Kemmel. In April 1918, German forces shelled Armentieres, 15 kilometers south of Kemmel, with mustard gas.
A German machine gunner lies dead at his post in a trench near Hargicourt, in France on September 19th, 1918.
A French officer stands near a cemetery with recent graves of soldiers killed on the front lines of World War One, at Saint-Jean-sur-Tourbe.
The announcing of the armistice on November 11, 1918, was the occasion for a monster celebration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
American soldiers march up New York's Fifth Avenue just past the Arch of Victory during spring of 1919.