Official American military artist Capt. W.J. Duncan made this drawing. The original caption reads: As many as 30,000 men have landed at this port in one day.
During World War I, the U.S. Government’s Committee for Public Information employed artists, who followed troops into France with the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the war. Commissioned as officers in the Corps of Engineers, the artists were assigned to create artwork in a variety of media to show the war to Americans back home.
