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Third Battle of Ypres |
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| Soldiers of an Allied machine gun company sit in crater holes of the devastated landscape around Ypres, Belgium. The Third Battle of Ypres began in July 1917 and continued until November, when the Allies captured the Passchendaele (Passendale) Ridge. The battle was a struggle in the mud of Belgium. | ||||||
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| Ypres, Battle of; World War I; Belgium | ||||||
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