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'L'Installation en France de L'Avant-Garde Americaine; Premier contact pacifique entre Americains et Allemands', 1917. First World War: the American advance guard arrives in France; first peaceful contact between Americans and Germans. (The Germans are prisoners of war). From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2" [L'Illustration, Paris, 1924].