SC 192034 - U.S. Army Ordnance men maintain a 24 hour a day repair and supply service for Normandy bound troops
In the dead of night during an air raid these soldiers using a ten ton wrecker for hoisting power, remove the damaged engine of a General Sherman tank, scheduled to load on an LST on the following morning. Left to right: S/Sgt. Lester G. Simons, Brooklyn, N.Y., S/Sgt. Edward J. Seaman, Jr., Toledo, Ohio; and Sgt. Williams B. Larson of Oklee, Minn. The wrecker spotlights provide the illumination. Somewhere in England. 24 July, 1944. Photographer: Meserlin.
- Date
- 1944-07-24
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- Signal Corps Archive
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- Wikimedia Commons
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- photograph
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- 5,066 × 4,216 pixels
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