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Postcard map of the Western Front. By the time the card was mailed on November 26, 1914, trench warfare had begun, with trenches stretching from a corner of Belgium on the English Channel, across northern France to the Swiss border.
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Uebersichtskarte vom westlichen Kriegsschauplatz (Overview map of the Western Front)
Message dated, November 25, field postmark November 26, 1914 to a soldier in the 15th Army Corps

Postcard map of the Western Front. By the time the card was mailed on November 26, 1914, trench warfare had begun, with trenches stretching from a corner of Belgium on the English Channel, across northern France to the Swiss border.

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Sources

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