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SZ Photo - Battles and German retreat until fall 1918

Battles after ending of the german attacks. - This selection contains pictures from our partner agency Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo.

Pigeon master reads a message, 1918

01.09.1918 - A German pigeon master reads a flier message taken down from a pigeon. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers send away a pigeon, 1918

01.01.1918 - German soldiers attached a message to the foot of a pigeon. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldier feeds pigeons, 1918

01.09.1918 - The arriving carrier pigeons are fed by a German soldier. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers carry pigeons to the front, 1918

01.01.1918 - German soldiers carry baskets holding pigeons, which have been trained for services on the front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldier with a pigeon, 1918

16.09.1918 - A German soldier attaches a message to the foot of a pigeon. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Soldiers transport pigeons, 1917

05.05.1917 - German soldiers take carrier pigeons in baskets to a carrier pigeon station on the front. The last soldier carries a gas protection box for the pigeons. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German soldiers on the Western Front in the First World War, 1918

01.01.1918 - Enemy artillery fire on a German position. Film photo. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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American tank advance, 1918

26.09.1918 - American soldiers with tanks on their way to the front near the river Maas during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive (Battle of the Argonne Forest). [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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German hand grenade throwers with steel armor, 1918

01.09.1918 - German hand grenade throwers with steel armor in the front row on the Western front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Heavy artillery deployed near Dieuze, 1918

01.09.1918 - First World War: A heavy artillery gun is fired near Dieuze. After the summer offensive of the Allies, the German frontline had to move further and further back and the German troo...
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Scene from a military horse hospital, 1918

01.01.1918 - Interior of a military horse hospital during World War I on the Western Front. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Bandaging of a wounded messenger dog, 1918

01.01.1918 - A wounded messenger dog is bandaged on the head in a military veterinary hospital after he had been wounded by a grenade splinter behind the trenches in World War I. [XPAEXPORTID00...
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Carrier pigeon with camera from the FIrst World War

01.01.1914 - In the First and Second World War, carrier pigeons were used for reconnaissance and messenger flights. This carrier pigeon is equipped with a camera with automatic release. [XPAEXP...
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German soldier while preparing explosive charges on the Western Front, 1918

01.10.1918 - During the retreat, the infrastructure is destroyed methodically, as here a bridge. After 1918, the former Western Front became untenable and during the planned retreats the German...
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German troops in Champagne, 1918

01.11.1918 - Solders in a bunker underground in the area of Champagne during the assault of 1918. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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Pigeon master reads a message, 1918
German soldiers carry pigeons to the front, 1918
German soldiers on the Western Front in the First World War, 1918
German soldiers send away a pigeon, 1918
German soldier with a pigeon, 1918
American tank advance, 1918
German soldier feeds pigeons, 1918
Soldiers transport pigeons, 1917
German hand grenade throwers with steel armor, 1918

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