National Museum of American History
"Sausage" in Transit
War Department · 1918
Watercolor and charcoal sketch on paper. Sketch shows a large French observation balloon passing over a French village during the St. Mihiel Offensive in World War I. Onlookers and French soldiers stand in the streets among the maze of houses in the small village."Sausage" was the nickname given by British soldiers to observation balloons of this shape.
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