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Coast Guardsmen and British army men plug their ears as Coast Guardsmen Everett L. Garner touches a match to the fuse on an oversized firecracker, in observance of the Fourth of July "somewhere in England.
Caricatures of Hitler and a Jap war lord were scratched on the giant explosive to give the blast more zest. The British soldiers are, left to right: Corp. Bob Jolley of Chelmsford Essex; Cop. Tom Herden of Leeds, Yorkshire; and Trp. Joe Hill of Liverpool. U.S. Coast Guard Public Relations Photo. 026-g-038-022-001
- Date
- 1944
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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- 5,640 × 4,762 pixels
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"Coast Guardsmen and British army men plug their ears as Coast Guardsmen Everett L. Garner touches a match to the fuse on an oversized firecracker, in observance of the Fourth of July "somewhere in England." (1944). Signal Corps Archive from Ireland and United States, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coast_Guardsmen_and_British_army_men_plug_their_ears_as_Coast_Guardsmen_Everett_L._Garner_touches_a_match_to_the_fuse_on_an_oversized_firecracker,_in_observance_of_the_Fourth_of_July_%22somewhere_in_England.%22_(51220685604).jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 6658.
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