View over the battlefield of the Loretto Heights, France. Notre Dame de Lorette, a pilgrimage site, stood on the Heights, and was, with Vimy Ridge, part of the high ground seized by German troops in the Race to the Sea after the Battle of the Marne in 1914. French commander Joffre hoped to capture Loretto Heights and Carency, a village the Germans had fortified, in the First Battle of Artois in December, 1914. He tried to take the hill again in mid-February, 1915.
Westl. Kriegschauplatz: Kämpfe auf der Lorettohöhe.
Western theater of war: fighting on the Loretto Heights
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Kriegshilfe München N. W. 19.
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Sammel. u. Nachschlagewerk des Völkerkrieges
For Gloria Viktoria Album
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War Fund Munich N. W. 19th
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