The AccountedArchival Images

Archive › Signal Corps photographs › SC 190466

This grim American soldier, machine gun slung over his shoulder and ammunition strung around his neck moves along a road in Northern France to support advancing troops

U.S. Army Signal Corps photograph

Utah Beach Area, 1944: This grim American soldier, machine gun slung over his shoulder and…

Utah Beach Area, 06/06/1944

SC 190466Field no. ETO-HQ-44-4848RG 111
Downloadfull-size JPG, TIFF or PDF · free accountOpen in The Accountedfree account

Original caption

This grim American soldier, machine gun slung over his shoulder and ammunition strung around his neck moves along a road in Northern France to support advancing troops. France, June 6, 1944. 6 8th Inf. Regt., 4th Inf. Div. Signal Corps Photo (Shelton). Copy neg. made from enlarged print of orig. 35mm Roll, received from ocsigo Hdqrs., SOS, European Theater of Operations, USA, June 1944. Released by BPR, Auth. #2g June 12g 1944. 4x5 copy neg. Lot 8765 1md

Date
06/06/1944
Place
Utah Beach Area · approximate position
Photographer
Shelton
SC number
190466
Field number
ETO-HQ-44-4848
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

Approximate position · Show on the photo map

In The Accounted

Research this photograph
  • The caption card and the album page, next to the photograph
  • Link it to a soldier you research, and mark him in it
  • The unit's Morning Reports: where it was that day
  • Full-size downloads: JPG, original TIFF, or a PDF with the caption card

Free account · no card needed

Photographed nearby

More by Shelton

All photographs by Shelton