A Platoon of Negro Troops Surrounds a Farm House in a Town in France, as They Prepare to Eliminate a German Sniper Holding up an Advance, Omaha Beachhead, near Vierville-sur-Mer, France
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- 1944-06-10
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
- Original size
- 3,191 × 2,499 pixels
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