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This is not the "Road Back"

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Southampton, England, 1944: This is not the "Road Back"

Southampton, England, 06/08/1944

SC 189913Field no. ETO-HQ-44-4787RG 111
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This is not the "Road Back"! These Germans file through the barbed stockade of a PW Camp somewhere in England, They were among the first captured during the initial assaults of Allied troops on German held Beaches in France. England, 6/8/44.

Date
06/08/1944
Place
Southampton, England · approximate position
Photographer
Naccarata
Units
14th Port
SC number
189913
Field number
ETO-HQ-44-4787
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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