Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade's tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe.
- Date
- 1944
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,394 pixels
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"Crossed rifles in the sand are a comrade's tribute to this American soldier who sprang ashore from a landing barge and died at the barricades of Western Europe." (1944). U.S. National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crossed_rifles_in_the_sand_are_a_comrade%27s_tribute_to_this_American_soldier_who_sprang_ashore_from_a_landing_barge..._-_NARA_-_513175.tifNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 1194.
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