1944: The quiet countryside of England presents sharp contrasts of war and…

03/12/1944

SC 189790Field no. ETO-HQ-44–2415RG 111

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The quiet countryside of England presents sharp contrasts of war and peace these days. Here at an ordnance depot, a calf takes nourishment from her mother, unmindful of the surrounding 90mm anticircraft guns parked there. This is reminiscent of days in the United States when construction of the nation's first tank arsenal was begun in the middle of a Michigan cornfield outside of Detroit. England, March 12, 1944.

Date: 03/12/1944
Photographer: Neuman
SC number: 189790
Field number: ETO-HQ-44–2415
Source: U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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