SC 192027 - A GI has used a door with a window in the top to combine with his shelter half, and some German canvas and an old German leather coat are used to make a one-man shelter for himself
He has also dug a foxhole inside the shelter. Cherbourg, France. 25 July, 1944. Photographer unknown.
- Date
- 1944-07-25
- Photographer / author
- Signal Corps Archive
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 5,477 × 4,447 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Army).
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