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An American paratrooper stands guard as German prisoners of war captured in Northern France dig graves for their own dead

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Somewhere in Normandy, 1944: An American paratrooper stands guard as German prisoners of war…

Somewhere in Normandy, 06/09/1944

SC 320876Field no. ETO-HQ-44-4986-18RG 111
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An American paratrooper stands guard as German prisoners of war captured in Northern France dig graves for their own dead. 9 June 1944

Date
06/09/1944
Place
Somewhere in Normandy · approximate position
Photographer
Montgomery
SC number
320876
Field number
ETO-HQ-44-4986-18
Source
U.S. National Archives, Record Group 111, Series: Official Army Photographs

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