American soldier and Russian engineers with German locomotive, WWII

Lot 11603-4: Persian Corridor – British and American Lend-Lease supplies transferred to the Soviet Union during World War II. An American Sergeant railroader lighting the cigarette of two Russian railroad engineers as they stand before a German-made engine being used to haul supplies for a Russian railway. Sign on the engine shows that it was built at the Krupp works in Essen. Somewhere in Iran. Photographed by Nick Parrino, March 1943. Office of War Information Photograph, 28514-E. (2016/02/19).

Date

1943-03

Photographer / author

National Museum of the U.S. Navy

Collection

FSA/OWI

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

2,177 × 2,088 pixels

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