London buses, shipped to France, being used to move up a division of Australian troops. Reninghelst. 2nd Division. #

German soldiers (rear) offer to surrender to French troops, seen from a listening post in a trench at Massiges, northeastern France. #

A series of trenches, structures on fire, in a French war zone during World War I. #

A French soldier aiming an anti-aircraft machine gun from a trench at Perthes les Hurlus, eastern France. #

(2 of 2) A moment after the preceding picture was taken, the warning screech of an incoming shell was heard, and the men scrambled for cover. #

The battles at Soissons. A captive balloon with its truck, equipped with a motor winch, in June of 1918. #

British soldier in a flooded dug-out, on the front lines, France. #

French soldiers stand in German trenches seized after being shelled on the Somme, northern France in 1916. #

Lens, France, the devastated coal mining region of northern France, 220 coal pits rendered useless. #

Two Tanks knocked out of action near Tank Corner, Ypres Salient, October 1917. #

In this aerial photo, a portion of an old reserve trench is visible near the Somme River, on the western front, in France. #

(1 of 2) German storm troops race to occupy a newly-made mine crater near Ripent (Champagne). #

(2 of 2) Near Ripent (Champagne). Beginning of construction of defensive measures in a newly-occupied mine crater by German soldiers. #

Battery C, Sixth Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Division, from the U.S., in action on the front at Beaumont, France, on September 12, 1918. #

A British firing squad prepares to execute a German spy somewhere in Great Britain, date unknown. #

US Army 37-mm gun crew manning their weapon on September 26, 1918 during the World War I Meuse-Argonne (Maas-Argonne) Allied offensive, France. #

Wounded British prisoner supported by two German soldiers, 1917. #

German troops cross a field, ca. 1918. #

Two Englishmen killed by gas near Kemmel. In April 1918, German forces shelled Armentieres, 15 kilometers south of Kemmel, with mustard gas. #

British soldier cleaning a rifle, Western Front. His growth of beard suggests he may have been continuously in the trenches for several days. #

Royal Air Force planes being loaded with munitions in France. #

Mother and child wearing gas masks, French countryside, 1918. #

Ruins in Reninghe, Belgium, 1916. #

German shells bursting on Canadian positions at Lens, France in June 1917. In the foreground, a Canadian gun pit is camouflaged to avoid destructive enemy fire. #

German soldiers walk past fallen British soldiers, following heavy street fighting in the village of Moreuil. #

German dead on the Somme battlefield. #

Panoramic view of almost totally destroyed town; crude sign reads, "this was Forges", possibly Forges-sur-Meuse. #

Dead horses and a broken cart on Menin Road, troops in the distance, Ypres sector, Belgium, in 1917. #

2nd Division Pioneers clearing the road near the Cloth Wall Ypres October, 1917. #

Soldiers in a field wave their helmets and cheer on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, location unknown. #

Americans in the midst of the celebration on the Grand Boulevard on Armistice Day for World War I in Paris, France, on November 11, 1918. #

A Marine kisses a woman during a homecoming parade at the end of World War I, in 1919. #