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    This Week in Sustainment History – July 31 [Image 2 of 2]

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    A black-and-white archival photograph showing a column of soldiers marching along a makeshift wooden plank road through a heavily devastated battlefield landscape. The terrain is littered with destroyed wagons, debris, and churned earth consistent with heavy artillery bombardment. The IWM (Imperial War Museum) watermark suggests this is a World War I era photograph.

    UNITED STATES

    07.31.2026

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    U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)

    One of the deadliest battles that happened 109 years ago during World War, began on July 31, 1917, when British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand forces attacked entrenched Imperial German forces in occupied Belgium nears the town of Ypres.

    Since the beginning of the conflict, armies from the Allies (France, Great Britain, and, after April 1917, the United States) and the Central Powers (Imperial Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Turkey) had clashed in brutal battles involving radical new military technologies: machine guns, fast-firing artillery, chemical weapons, submarines, and airplanes. Together, it gave defending forces an enormous tactical advantage and produced a stalemate on the Western Front.

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    Date Taken: 07.31.2026
    Date Posted: 08.04.2026 16:50
    Photo ID: 9850096
    VIRIN: 260731-A-AA412-1005
    Resolution: 800x579
    Size: 132.61 KB
    Location: US

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