A French soldier dressed in American uniform advances upon enemy positions on a riverbank in Huningue, France on 1 December 1944
Gift in Memory of Allan Voluck
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A French soldier dressed in American uniform advances upon enemy positions on a riverbank. Official caption: "6AG 27309/ETO HQ 44 27967 1 Dec. Credit...US Army Signal Corps. Photog: T/4 Edward C. Newell (163). Capture of Huningue. Leading the First Patrol this far up the Rhine River, French officer, pistol in hand, is being fired upon by Germans farther up the river on French side and from across the river beyond building on right which marks German-Swiss boundary, haze prevents showing Germans crossing river in boats farther up the Rhine. French 1st Army Huningue area France." Passed for publication without censorship restrictions by the SHAEF Field Press Censor on 13 December 1944.
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"1944-12-01"
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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:
Huningue
Latitude:
47.600
Longitude:
7.583
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials:
Soldiers--French--France
Military reconnaissance--French--France
Rivers--France