American soldier in a troop train box car in Western Europe, 1945

Gift of Ronello Brown, from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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Photograph. Silhouette of an American soldier in a troop train box car. Personal caption on reverse: "Box car that I traveled in from Wurzburg, Germany to Marseilles, France / Aug. 1945." Presumably Germany. August 1945

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1945-08-
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Items from the service of Ronello Brown, who fought with the 197th Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion in Normandy, Northern France, and central Europe. Mr. Brown received the Good Conduct Bronze Star and the French Croix de Guerre.
Geography: 
Deutschland
Latitude: 
51.500
Longitude: 
10.500
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Soldiers--American--Europe
Railroad cars--American--Europe