Firefighters douse flames from a crashed airplane in France on 21 June 1944

Gift in Memory of Allan Voluck
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Firefighters douse flames from a crashed airplane. Official caption: "ETO HQ 44 5617 Zwick 21 June. Credit--P. Signal Corps Photo. A P-47 crashes while landing on an airstrip in France. This plane lost a cluster of fragmentation bombs in landing. Somewhere in France." Censored on 22 June 1944; passed for publication without censorship restrictions by SHAEF Field Press Censor on 15 May 1945.

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Date: 
"1944-06-21"
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Photographs from the service of Allan Voluck, who served as a photographer with the 3908th Signal Service Battalion in Europe.
Geography: 
France
Latitude: 
46.000
Longitude: 
2.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Aircraft accidents--France
Fire fighting--France
Runways (Aeronautics)--France