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Description Lot 6591-13: Flanders Field American Cemetery, half way between Brussels and Ypres and the burial place of about 350 American soldiers. Most of the men buried here were members of the 37th and 91st Divisions who lost their lives in this part of Flanders, in October and November 1918, and of the 27th and 30th Divisions who feel near Ypres in August and September of that same year. Shown: Altar at the Waereghem Chapel. President Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection-Photograph Album presented by General John J. Pershing, USA (Ret.), Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission. The photographs in the collection were taken in 1923 to show the memorials erected by the American Battle Monuments Commission. Photographed through Mylar sleeve. (2015/10/09).
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Author National Museum of the U.S. Navy

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Photograph Curator at https://flickr.com/photos/127906254@N06/21872562498 (archive). It was reviewed on 11 July 2018 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the Public Domain Mark.

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