Signal Corps Archive:
SC 195544 - Loading shells onto a tank destroyer just outside Brest, France, are, left to right:
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SC 195512 - Cpl. Charles N. Johnson, Paris, Tenn., waves on a motor convoy rushing priority materiel to the forward areas in France. 5 September, 1944.
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SC 396845 - Pfc. Jerry C. Coleman, of Los Angeles, Cal., assistant driver of a tank attached to an armored unit serving somewhere in France, takes time out during a lull in the action to eat his "K" rations.
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SC 396844 - Replacements pick up their K rations before being assigned to a combat unit from a replacement pool. France. 20 July, 1944.
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SC 329721 - At the newly opened Red Cross club in Cherbourg. Cpl. Charles C. Murphyel, of Brooklyn, N.Y., gets his share of Yankee doughnuts and coffee. Girls are French Red Cross volunteers. 29 July, 1944.
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SC 329722 - This is a shot of the mixed ARC girls and GIs using and distributing delicious 'O' Rations on the #1 forward hatch of the Liberty Ship 'Edward W. Scripps'...
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SC 329723 - An American Red Cross Clubmobile crew serves doughnuts and coffee to GIs at a replacement center on the continent.
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SC 270657 - Land flooded by Hitler's forces in an effort to "bog down" the invasion forces proves little detriment to the American assault troops.
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SC 270803 - Infantry troops entering in Haye Du Puis. 9 July, 1944.
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SC 270659 - American troops, real footsloggers, wade through territory in Northern France, flooded by Hitler's forces in an attempt to make glider landing impractical.
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SC 270658 - American troops move into French village supported by a tank in the background. Ever increasing numbers of well trained, expertly equipped men are pouring in to oppose Hitler's forces on the Continent. 9 June, 1944.
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SC 270660 - Infantrymen move toward the front beyond St. Lo, France, after the Air Corps and artillery paved the way with their "Greatest show since D-Day". 26 July, 1944.
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SC 270815 - G.I.'s hug the bank as Jerry shells drop close by near Marigny. 25 July, 1944.
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SC 270816 - Infantrymen take cover behind a hedgerow near Srionze, France, as they fire at the enemy only a matter of yards away.
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SC 270804 - American infantrymen march past a knocked-out 88mm gun and half-track used as a crew transport while on their way to the frontlines near Avranches, France. 31 July, 1944.
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SC 270661 - An elderly French peasant watches members of an American motorized unit move past her farm northwest of St. Lo.
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SC 270588 - S/Sgt. Robert Troxler, left, of Elson College, N.D., and Pvt. Charles Forkas, right, of Rutland, Vt., both members of an infantry unit, walk along a French road to rejoin their unit...
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SC 270662 - Infantry troops and armor pass along a french road in a never-ending stream as U.S. forces move ahead in the new offensive against the enemy in France.
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SC 405017 - T/Sgt. Ralph Hagmann, 5137 Warren Ave., Norwood, Ohio, with a quartermaster company, 66th Infantry Division, helps "Shorty", a Russian liberated from a German labor labor camp...
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SC 335000 - Capt. Robert Kirkpatrick, Cleveland, Ohio, tells Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Comm. Gen., 7th Corps, the part his unit played in the capture of the fort overlooking the city and harbor of Cherbourg, France.
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SC 190631 - This graphic tells the story of how the French beachhead was supplied on D-Day. 6 June, 1944.
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SC 337261 - Engineers are putting a railroad bridge in order for the handling of tanks.
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SC 334901 - These six infantrymen and six medics are all from Pennsylvania.
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SC 335508 - Pfc. Joseph A. Calvello of New York City, N.Y., examines the sponge rubber interior of a Russian tire found on a 4.5 cm. anti-tank gun left behind by the retreating Germans in France.
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SC 335430 - 105mm self-propelled howitzer gets a cleaning from its crew, having been in the Siege of Brest, France.
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SC 335429 - The anti-tank squad has camouflaged their gun to blend in with the surroundings.
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SC 364297 - Firing 155mm field artillery piece of Battery "B," 20th Field Artillery, 4th Infantry Division. 16 July, 1944.
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SC 364298 - A 155mm howitzer, also known as whispering death, of the 4th Infantry Division, throws another shell into the cracking German lines. 24 July, 1944.
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SC 405092 - American Naval officers, in foreground, and French officers, near tank, salute as General De Gaulle is welcomed by residents of the town of Chartres on his first visit to the town since its liberation. 23 August, 1944.
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SC 364272 - Pfc. Floyd Rogers, 24, of Rising Star, Texas, and his Browning Automatic Rifle, with which, according to his officers, he has killed 27 Nazis, mostly snipers harassing advancing American troops.
